1 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
2 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
3 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
4 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
5 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
7 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
9 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
10 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
11 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
12 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
14 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
16 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
20 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
21 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
22 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
23 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
24 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
26 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
27 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
28 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
29 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
30 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
31 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
32 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
34 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
35 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
36 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
37 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
38 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
39 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
40 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
41 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
43 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
44 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
45 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
46 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
47 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
48 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
49 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
50 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
51 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
52 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
53 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
54 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
55 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
56 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
57 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
59 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
60 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
61 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
62 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
65 o Minor features (geoip data):
66 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
67 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
69 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
70 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
71 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
72 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
73 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
74 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
77 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
78 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
79 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
83 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
84 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
85 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
86 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
87 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
89 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
90 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
91 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
93 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
94 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
95 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
96 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
97 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
98 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
99 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
101 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
102 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
103 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
104 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
105 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
106 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
107 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
108 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
110 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
111 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
112 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
113 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
114 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
115 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
116 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
117 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
118 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
119 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
120 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
121 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
122 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
123 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
124 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
126 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
127 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
128 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
129 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
132 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
133 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
134 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
136 o Minor features (geoip data):
137 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
138 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
140 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
141 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
142 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
143 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
145 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
146 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
147 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
150 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
151 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
152 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
153 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
154 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
156 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
157 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
158 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
159 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
160 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
161 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
162 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
164 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
165 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
166 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
167 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
168 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
169 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
170 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
171 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
173 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
174 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
175 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
176 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
177 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
178 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
179 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
180 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
181 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
182 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
183 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
184 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
185 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
186 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
187 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
189 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
190 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
191 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
193 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
194 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
195 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
196 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
199 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
200 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
201 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
203 o Minor features (geoip data):
204 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
205 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
208 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
209 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
210 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
211 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
212 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
215 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
216 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
217 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
218 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
220 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
221 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
223 o Major bugfixes (security):
224 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
225 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
226 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
227 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
228 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
229 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
231 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
232 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
233 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
234 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
235 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
236 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
237 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
238 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
240 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
241 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
242 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
243 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
244 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
245 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
246 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
247 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
248 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
249 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
250 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
251 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
252 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
253 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
254 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
256 o Minor features (geoip data):
257 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
258 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
260 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
261 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
262 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
263 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
264 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
267 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
268 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
269 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
270 found, the next release will be stable.
272 o Minor features (compatibility):
273 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
274 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
275 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
278 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
279 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
280 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
281 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
282 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
284 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
285 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
286 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
287 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
288 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
289 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
292 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
293 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
294 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
298 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
299 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
300 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
303 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
304 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
305 from the 0.4.6.x series.
307 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
308 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
309 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
310 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
311 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
313 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
314 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
315 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
317 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
318 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
319 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
321 o Minor features (geoip data):
322 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
323 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
325 o Minor features (onion services):
326 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
327 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
328 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
330 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
331 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
332 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
333 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
335 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
336 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
337 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
338 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
340 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
341 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
342 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
343 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
345 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
346 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
347 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
349 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
350 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
351 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
352 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
354 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
355 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
356 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
357 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
359 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
360 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
361 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
365 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
366 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
367 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
368 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
370 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
371 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
372 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
373 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
375 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
376 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
377 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
378 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
380 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
381 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
382 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
383 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
384 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
386 o Minor features (compilation):
387 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
388 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
390 o Minor features (geoip data):
391 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
392 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
394 o Minor features (onion services):
395 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
396 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
398 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
399 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
400 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
401 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
403 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
404 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
405 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
407 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
408 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
409 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
411 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
412 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
413 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
414 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
417 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
418 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
419 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
420 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
423 o Minor features (client):
424 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
425 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
426 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
427 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
429 o Minor features (command line):
430 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
431 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
434 o Minor features (dormant mode):
435 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
436 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
437 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
439 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
440 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
441 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
443 o Minor features (geoip data):
444 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
445 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
447 o Minor features (logging):
448 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
449 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
452 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
453 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
454 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
455 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
457 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
458 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
459 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
460 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
462 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
463 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
464 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
465 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
467 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
468 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
469 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
470 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
473 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
474 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
475 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
477 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
478 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
479 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
482 o Documentation (manual):
483 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
485 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
486 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
487 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
488 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
491 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
492 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
493 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
494 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
495 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
497 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
498 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
500 o Major features (control port, onion services):
501 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
502 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
503 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
506 o Major features (directory authority):
507 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
508 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
509 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
510 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
512 o Major features (metrics):
513 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
514 documents. This information is controlled with the
515 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
516 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
517 328; closes ticket 40222.
519 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
520 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
521 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
523 o Major features (statistics):
524 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
525 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
526 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
528 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
529 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
530 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
531 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
532 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
533 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
534 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
535 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
536 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
537 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
538 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
539 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
540 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
541 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
542 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
543 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
544 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
545 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
546 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
547 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
550 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
551 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
552 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
553 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
555 o Minor features (bridge):
556 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
557 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
558 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
560 o Minor features (build system):
561 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
562 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
563 this. Closes ticket 40227.
565 o Minor features (command-line interface):
566 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
567 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
568 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
569 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
570 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
571 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
572 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
573 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
574 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
575 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
577 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
578 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
579 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
581 o Minor features (dormant mode):
582 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
583 control over whether the client can become dormant from
584 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
586 o Minor features (logging):
587 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
588 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
589 any). Closes ticket 40308.
590 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
591 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
592 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
594 o Minor features (performance, windows):
595 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
596 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
597 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
598 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
600 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
601 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
602 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
604 o Minor features (tests, portability):
605 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
606 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
609 o Minor features (vote document):
610 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
611 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
612 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
614 o Minor bugfixes (build):
615 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
616 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
617 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
619 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
620 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
621 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
622 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
625 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
626 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
627 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
628 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
630 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
631 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
632 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
633 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
634 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
635 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
637 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
638 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
639 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
640 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
641 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
643 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
644 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
645 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
646 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
647 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
649 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
650 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
651 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
652 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
654 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
655 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
656 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
657 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
659 o Code simplification and refactoring:
660 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
661 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
662 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
665 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
666 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
667 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
668 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
669 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
670 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
671 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
674 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
675 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
676 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
678 o Removed features (relay):
679 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
680 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
681 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
682 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
683 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
686 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
687 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
688 in earlier versions of Tor.
690 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
691 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
692 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
693 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
694 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
695 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
696 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
697 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
698 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
701 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
702 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
705 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
708 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
709 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
710 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
711 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
712 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
713 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
714 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
715 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
716 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
719 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
720 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
721 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
722 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
723 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
724 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
725 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
726 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
729 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
730 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
734 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
735 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
736 in earlier versions of Tor.
738 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
739 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
740 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
741 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
742 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
743 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
744 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
745 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
746 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
749 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
750 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
753 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
756 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
757 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
758 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
759 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
760 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
761 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
762 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
763 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
764 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
767 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
768 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
769 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
770 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
771 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
772 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
773 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
774 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
777 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
778 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
782 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
783 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
786 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
787 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
788 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
789 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
790 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
791 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
792 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
793 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
794 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
797 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
798 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
801 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
802 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
804 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
805 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
806 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
807 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
808 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
809 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
810 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
811 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
812 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
815 o Minor features (geoip data):
816 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
817 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
818 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
819 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
820 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
821 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
822 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
825 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
826 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
827 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
828 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
829 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
831 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
832 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
833 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
835 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
836 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
837 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
838 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
839 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
841 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
842 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
843 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
845 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
846 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
847 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
849 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
850 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
851 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
853 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
854 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
855 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
856 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
857 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
858 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
859 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
860 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
862 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
863 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
867 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
868 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
869 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
870 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
871 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
872 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
873 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
874 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
875 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
876 welcoming approach to growing our community.
878 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
879 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
880 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
881 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
882 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
883 smaller features and bugfixes.
885 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
886 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
888 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
889 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
890 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
891 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
893 o Minor features (protocol versions):
894 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
895 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
896 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
897 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
900 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
901 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
902 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
903 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
904 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
905 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
907 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
908 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
909 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
911 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
912 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
913 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
914 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
915 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
917 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
918 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
919 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
920 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
921 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
925 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
926 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
927 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
928 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
929 DoS attacks harder to perform.
931 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
932 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
933 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
934 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
935 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
938 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
939 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
940 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
941 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
944 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
945 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
946 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
947 this. Closes ticket 40227.
949 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
950 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
951 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
952 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
953 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
955 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
956 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
957 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
958 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
959 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
960 weasel for diagnosing this.
962 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
963 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
964 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
965 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
966 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
967 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
968 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
970 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
971 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
972 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
973 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
975 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
976 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
977 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
978 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
980 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
981 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
982 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
983 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
984 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
985 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
986 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
988 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
989 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
992 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
993 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
994 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
995 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
996 DoS attacks harder to perform.
998 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
999 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
1001 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1002 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1003 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1004 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1005 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1008 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1009 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1010 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1011 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1012 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1014 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1015 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1016 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1017 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1020 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1021 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1022 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1023 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1025 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1026 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1027 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1028 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1029 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1031 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1032 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1033 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1034 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1035 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1036 weasel for diagnosing this.
1038 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1039 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1040 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1041 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1042 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1043 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1044 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1046 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1047 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1048 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1050 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1051 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1052 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1053 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1056 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1057 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1058 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1060 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1061 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1062 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1063 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1064 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1065 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1066 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1068 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1069 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1072 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
1073 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
1074 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
1075 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
1076 DoS attacks harder to perform.
1078 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1079 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1080 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1081 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1082 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1085 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1086 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
1087 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
1088 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
1089 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1091 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
1092 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1093 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1094 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1097 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
1098 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1099 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1100 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1102 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
1103 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1104 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1105 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1106 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1108 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1109 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1110 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1111 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1112 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1113 weasel for diagnosing this.
1115 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1116 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1117 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1118 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1119 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1120 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1121 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1123 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
1124 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1125 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1127 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1128 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1129 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1130 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1132 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
1133 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1134 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1135 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1137 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
1138 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1139 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1140 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1142 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1143 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1146 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
1147 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
1148 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
1149 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
1150 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
1152 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
1153 release, though of course that could change.
1155 o Major feature (exit):
1156 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
1157 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
1158 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
1161 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
1162 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
1163 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
1167 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
1168 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
1169 several bugs present in previous releases.
1171 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
1172 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
1174 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
1175 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
1176 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1178 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
1179 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
1180 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
1181 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
1182 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1184 o Minor feature (build system):
1185 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
1186 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
1187 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1189 o Minor features (authority, logging):
1190 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
1191 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
1192 Closes ticket 40245.
1193 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
1194 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
1197 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1198 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
1199 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
1200 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
1201 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
1202 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
1203 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
1205 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
1206 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
1207 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
1208 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
1209 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
1212 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
1213 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
1214 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
1215 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1217 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1218 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
1219 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
1220 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1223 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
1224 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
1225 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
1226 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
1228 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
1229 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
1230 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
1231 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
1233 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
1234 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
1235 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
1236 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
1237 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
1240 o Minor features (crypto):
1241 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
1242 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
1243 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
1244 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
1245 weasel for diagnosing this.
1247 o Minor features (documentation):
1248 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
1249 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
1250 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
1252 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1253 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
1254 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
1255 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
1256 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
1257 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
1260 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
1261 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
1262 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
1263 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
1264 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1266 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1267 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
1268 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
1270 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
1271 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
1272 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1274 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
1275 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
1276 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
1277 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
1278 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
1281 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
1282 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
1283 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
1284 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1287 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
1288 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
1289 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
1290 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
1291 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
1292 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
1295 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
1296 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
1297 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
1298 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
1299 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
1300 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
1301 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1303 o Minor features (compilation):
1304 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
1305 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
1306 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
1307 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
1309 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1310 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
1311 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
1312 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
1313 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
1315 o Minor features (safety):
1316 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
1317 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
1320 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
1321 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
1322 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
1323 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
1324 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
1325 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1327 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1328 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
1329 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
1330 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1331 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
1332 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1333 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
1334 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
1335 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1337 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1338 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
1339 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
1340 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
1341 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
1342 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
1344 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
1345 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
1346 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
1347 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1348 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
1349 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
1350 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1352 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
1353 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
1354 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
1355 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1357 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1358 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
1359 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
1361 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
1362 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
1363 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1365 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
1366 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
1367 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1368 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
1369 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
1370 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
1371 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1373 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1374 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
1375 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
1376 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1377 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
1378 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
1379 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
1381 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
1382 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
1383 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
1385 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
1386 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1388 o Removed features (controller):
1389 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
1390 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
1393 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
1394 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
1395 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
1396 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
1397 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
1398 intended for a different relay.
1400 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1401 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1402 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1403 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1404 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1405 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1406 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1408 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1409 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
1410 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
1411 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
1412 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
1413 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
1414 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
1415 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
1416 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
1417 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
1418 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
1420 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1421 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1422 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1423 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1424 closes ticket 40133.
1426 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1427 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1428 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1430 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1431 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1432 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1434 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1435 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1436 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1437 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1438 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1439 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1441 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1442 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1443 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1445 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1446 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1447 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1450 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1451 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1452 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1453 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1456 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
1457 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1458 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1459 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1460 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1462 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
1463 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
1464 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
1467 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1468 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1469 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1470 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1472 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1473 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1474 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1475 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1476 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1477 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1478 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1480 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1481 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1482 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1483 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1484 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1487 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1488 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1489 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1490 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1491 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1492 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1494 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1495 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1496 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1497 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1498 closes ticket 40133.
1500 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1501 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1502 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1503 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1505 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1506 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1507 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1509 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1510 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1511 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1513 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1514 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1515 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1516 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1517 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1519 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1520 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1521 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1523 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1524 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1525 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1526 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1527 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1528 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1529 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1531 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1532 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1533 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1536 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1537 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1538 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1539 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1540 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1541 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1544 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1545 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1546 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1547 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1549 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1550 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
1551 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
1552 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1554 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1555 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1556 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1558 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1559 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1562 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1563 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
1564 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
1565 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
1566 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
1567 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
1568 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
1571 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
1572 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
1573 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1574 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1575 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
1577 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1578 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
1579 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
1580 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
1582 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1583 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1584 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1585 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1586 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1587 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1588 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1590 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1591 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
1592 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
1593 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
1594 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
1597 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1598 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
1599 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
1600 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
1601 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
1602 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
1604 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
1605 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
1606 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
1607 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
1609 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1610 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1611 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1612 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1613 closes ticket 40133.
1615 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
1616 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
1617 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
1618 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
1620 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1621 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1622 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1624 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1625 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1626 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1628 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1629 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
1630 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
1631 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
1632 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
1634 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1635 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1636 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1638 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1639 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
1640 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
1641 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
1642 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
1643 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
1644 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1646 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
1647 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1648 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
1651 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
1652 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
1653 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
1654 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
1655 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
1656 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
1659 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
1660 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
1661 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
1662 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1664 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
1665 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
1666 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
1667 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1669 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
1670 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
1671 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
1673 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
1674 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
1678 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
1679 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
1680 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
1681 metrics and tracing.
1683 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
1684 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
1685 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
1686 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
1687 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
1688 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
1689 series soon, after it has had some testing.
1691 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
1693 o Major features (build):
1694 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
1695 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
1696 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
1697 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
1698 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
1700 o Major features (metrics):
1701 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
1702 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
1703 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
1704 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
1705 information and security considerations.
1706 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
1707 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
1708 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
1709 Closes ticket 33233.
1710 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
1711 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
1712 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
1713 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
1714 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
1715 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
1716 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
1717 use. Closes ticket 33220.
1718 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
1719 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
1720 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
1721 Closes ticket 34067.
1723 o Major features (tracing):
1724 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
1725 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
1726 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
1727 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
1728 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
1730 o Major bugfixes (security):
1731 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
1732 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
1733 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
1734 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
1735 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
1736 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
1738 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
1739 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
1740 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
1741 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
1742 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
1743 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
1745 o Minor features (address discovery):
1746 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
1747 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
1748 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
1749 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
1751 o Minor features (admin tools):
1752 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
1753 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
1754 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
1757 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
1758 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
1759 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
1760 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
1761 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
1762 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
1764 o Minor features (build):
1765 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
1766 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
1767 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
1768 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
1769 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
1771 o Minor features (configuration):
1772 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
1773 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1774 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
1775 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
1776 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
1777 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1779 o Minor features (control port):
1780 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
1781 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
1782 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
1783 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
1785 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
1786 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
1787 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
1790 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
1791 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
1792 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
1793 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
1794 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
1795 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
1796 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1798 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1799 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
1800 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
1801 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
1802 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
1803 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
1804 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
1805 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
1806 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
1808 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
1809 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
1810 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1811 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
1812 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
1813 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
1814 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
1815 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
1816 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
1817 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
1818 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
1819 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
1820 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
1821 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
1822 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
1824 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
1825 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
1826 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
1827 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
1829 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
1830 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
1831 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
1832 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1834 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1835 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
1836 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
1838 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
1839 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
1840 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1842 o Minor features (logging):
1843 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
1844 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
1845 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
1846 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
1847 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
1848 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
1850 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
1851 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
1852 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
1853 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
1855 o Minor features (onion services):
1856 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
1857 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
1858 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1860 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1861 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
1862 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
1863 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
1864 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
1865 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
1867 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
1868 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
1869 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
1870 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
1871 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
1872 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
1873 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
1875 o Minor features (relay):
1876 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
1877 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
1878 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
1879 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
1880 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
1881 Closes ticket 34137.
1883 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
1884 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
1885 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
1888 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
1889 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
1890 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
1891 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
1892 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
1893 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
1894 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
1895 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
1896 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
1898 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
1899 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
1901 o Minor features (specification update):
1902 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
1903 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
1904 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
1906 o Minor features (state management):
1907 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
1908 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
1909 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
1910 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
1911 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
1913 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
1914 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
1915 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
1916 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
1917 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
1919 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
1920 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
1921 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
1922 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
1923 closes ticket 40133.
1924 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
1925 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
1927 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1928 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
1929 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
1930 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
1931 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
1933 o Minor features (testing):
1934 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
1935 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
1937 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
1938 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
1939 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
1941 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
1942 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
1943 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1945 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1946 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
1947 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
1948 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
1950 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
1951 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
1952 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1953 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
1954 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
1955 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
1956 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
1957 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
1958 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
1960 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1961 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
1962 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
1963 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
1964 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
1965 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
1966 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
1968 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1969 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
1970 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
1971 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
1972 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
1973 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
1975 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1976 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
1977 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
1978 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
1981 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
1982 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
1983 when a stream is attached with the purpose
1984 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
1985 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1987 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1988 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
1989 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
1990 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
1991 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
1992 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
1993 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
1994 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
1997 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
1998 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
1999 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
2002 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2003 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2004 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2005 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2006 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2007 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2008 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2010 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2011 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2012 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2013 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2014 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2015 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2017 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2018 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2019 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2021 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2022 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2023 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2024 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2025 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2026 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2027 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2028 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2030 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
2031 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
2032 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
2033 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2035 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2036 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2037 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2038 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2039 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2040 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2041 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2042 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2043 Closes ticket 34200.
2044 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2045 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2046 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2047 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2048 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2049 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2050 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2052 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2053 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2054 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2055 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2056 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2057 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2060 o Deprecated features:
2061 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2062 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2063 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2066 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2067 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2070 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2071 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2072 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2073 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2075 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2076 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2078 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2079 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2080 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2081 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2082 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2086 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2087 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2089 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2090 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2091 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2093 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2094 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2095 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2096 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2097 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2099 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2100 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2101 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2102 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2103 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2105 o Documentation (manual page):
2106 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2107 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2108 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2109 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2111 o Documentation (tracing):
2112 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2113 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2116 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
2117 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
2118 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
2119 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
2120 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
2121 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
2122 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2124 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2125 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2126 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2127 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
2128 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
2130 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
2131 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
2132 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
2134 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2135 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2137 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
2138 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
2139 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
2140 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
2141 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
2142 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2144 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
2145 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2146 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2147 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2148 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2150 o Minor features (control port):
2151 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
2152 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
2153 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2155 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
2156 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
2157 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
2158 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
2159 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
2160 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
2162 o Minor features (tests):
2163 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
2164 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
2165 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
2167 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
2168 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
2169 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2171 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2172 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
2173 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
2174 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2177 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
2178 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
2179 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
2182 o Major features (fallback directory list):
2183 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
2184 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
2185 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
2187 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
2188 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
2189 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
2190 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
2191 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
2194 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2195 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
2196 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
2197 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
2198 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
2200 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
2201 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
2202 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
2203 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
2206 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
2207 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
2208 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
2209 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
2210 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
2211 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
2215 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
2216 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
2217 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
2220 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
2221 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
2222 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
2223 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
2224 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
2225 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
2228 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
2229 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
2230 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
2232 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2233 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2234 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2235 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2236 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2237 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2238 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2241 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2242 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2243 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2244 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2247 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2248 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2249 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2250 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2251 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2252 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2254 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2255 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2256 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2257 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2258 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2259 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2261 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2262 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2263 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2265 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2266 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2267 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2268 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2271 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2272 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2273 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2274 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2277 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
2278 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2279 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2280 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2281 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2283 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2284 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2285 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2287 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2288 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2289 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2290 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2291 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2294 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2295 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2296 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2297 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2298 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2299 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2301 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2302 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2303 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2304 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2306 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2307 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2308 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2309 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2312 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2313 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2314 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2315 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2316 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2317 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2318 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2319 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2323 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
2324 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
2325 several that affect usability and portability.
2327 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2328 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2329 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2330 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2331 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2332 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2333 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2336 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2337 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2338 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2339 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2342 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2343 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2344 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2345 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2346 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2347 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2349 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
2350 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2351 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2352 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2353 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2355 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2356 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
2357 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
2358 code. Closes ticket 33290.
2360 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2361 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2362 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2363 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2364 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2365 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2367 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2368 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2369 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2371 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2372 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
2373 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
2374 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
2377 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2378 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2379 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2380 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2383 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
2384 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2385 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2386 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2387 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2388 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2391 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2392 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2393 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
2396 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
2397 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
2398 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
2401 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
2402 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
2403 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
2404 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
2407 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2408 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
2409 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
2410 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
2411 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
2412 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2414 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
2415 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
2416 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
2417 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
2418 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2420 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2421 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
2422 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
2423 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
2425 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2426 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2427 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2428 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2430 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
2431 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
2432 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
2433 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2436 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
2437 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
2438 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
2439 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
2440 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
2441 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
2442 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
2443 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
2447 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
2448 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
2449 some affecting usability.
2451 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2452 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2453 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2454 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2455 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2456 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2457 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2460 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2461 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2462 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2463 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2466 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2467 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2468 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2470 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2471 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2472 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2473 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2476 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2477 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2478 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2480 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2481 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
2482 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
2483 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2485 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
2486 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2487 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2488 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2490 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2491 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
2492 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2494 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2495 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
2496 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
2497 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
2498 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2500 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2501 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
2502 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
2504 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2505 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2506 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2507 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2509 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
2510 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
2514 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
2515 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
2516 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
2517 compatibility, and portability issues.
2519 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
2520 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
2521 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
2522 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
2523 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
2524 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
2525 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
2528 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
2529 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
2530 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
2531 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
2534 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2535 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
2536 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
2537 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
2538 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
2541 o Minor features (directory authority):
2542 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
2543 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
2544 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
2545 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
2546 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
2548 o Minor features (entry guards):
2549 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
2550 Closes ticket 40001.
2552 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
2553 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
2554 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
2555 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
2556 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
2557 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
2558 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
2560 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
2561 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
2562 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
2564 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
2565 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
2566 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2568 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
2569 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
2570 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
2573 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
2574 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
2575 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
2577 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
2578 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
2579 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
2580 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2582 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2583 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
2584 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
2585 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2587 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
2588 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
2589 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
2592 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
2593 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
2596 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
2597 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
2598 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
2599 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
2600 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
2601 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
2602 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
2603 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
2606 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
2607 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
2608 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
2609 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
2610 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
2611 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
2613 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
2615 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
2616 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
2617 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
2618 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
2619 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
2620 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
2621 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
2622 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
2623 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
2624 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
2626 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
2627 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
2628 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
2629 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
2630 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
2631 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
2632 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
2634 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
2636 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
2637 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
2638 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
2639 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
2641 o Major features (v3 onion services):
2642 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
2643 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
2644 Closes ticket 32709.
2646 o Minor feature (developer tools):
2647 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
2648 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
2650 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
2651 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
2652 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
2653 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
2656 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
2657 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
2658 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2660 o Minor feature (python scripts):
2661 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
2662 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
2663 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
2664 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
2666 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
2667 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
2668 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
2669 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
2670 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
2672 o Minor features (code safety):
2673 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
2674 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
2675 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
2676 Resolves issue 33788.
2678 o Minor features (compilation size):
2679 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
2680 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
2682 o Minor features (continuous integration):
2683 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
2684 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
2685 Resolves ticket 32143.
2687 o Minor features (control port):
2688 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
2689 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
2690 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
2691 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2693 o Minor features (developer tooling):
2694 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
2695 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
2696 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
2697 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
2698 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
2700 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
2701 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
2702 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
2703 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
2705 o Minor features (directory):
2706 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
2707 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
2708 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
2711 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
2712 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
2713 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
2715 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
2716 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
2717 Closes ticket 33901.
2719 o Minor features (logging):
2720 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
2721 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
2723 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
2724 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
2725 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
2726 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
2727 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
2728 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
2729 up from ticket 33316.
2731 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
2732 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
2733 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
2734 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2736 o Minor features (windows):
2737 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
2738 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
2740 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
2741 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
2742 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
2743 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
2744 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2746 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
2747 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
2748 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
2749 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
2751 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
2752 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
2753 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
2754 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
2757 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2758 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
2759 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
2760 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
2761 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
2762 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
2764 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
2765 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
2766 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
2767 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2769 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
2770 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
2771 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
2772 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
2773 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2775 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
2776 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
2777 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
2779 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2780 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
2781 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
2782 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
2783 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
2784 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2785 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
2786 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
2787 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
2788 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2790 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
2791 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
2792 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
2793 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2795 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
2796 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
2797 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
2798 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
2799 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
2801 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
2802 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
2803 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
2805 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
2806 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
2807 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
2809 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
2810 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
2811 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2813 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
2814 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
2815 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
2818 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
2819 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
2820 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2822 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2823 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
2824 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
2826 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
2827 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
2828 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
2831 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
2832 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
2833 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
2834 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
2836 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2837 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
2838 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
2839 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
2840 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2841 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
2842 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
2843 isolated in subsystems of their own.
2844 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
2845 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
2846 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
2847 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
2849 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
2850 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2851 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
2852 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
2856 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
2857 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
2858 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2859 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
2863 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
2864 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
2865 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
2866 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
2867 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2868 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
2869 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
2872 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
2873 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
2874 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
2875 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
2876 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
2877 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
2878 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
2879 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
2881 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
2882 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
2884 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
2885 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
2886 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
2887 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
2888 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
2889 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
2890 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
2891 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
2892 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
2893 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
2894 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
2895 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
2897 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
2898 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
2899 code. Closes ticket 33014.
2901 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2902 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
2903 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
2905 o Documentation (manual page):
2906 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
2907 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
2908 Google Season of Docs.
2909 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
2910 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
2911 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
2912 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
2913 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
2914 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
2915 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
2916 Closes ticket 33778.
2919 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
2920 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
2921 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
2922 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
2923 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
2924 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
2927 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
2928 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
2929 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
2930 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
2931 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
2933 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
2934 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
2935 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
2938 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2939 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2941 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
2942 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
2943 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
2944 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
2945 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
2946 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
2949 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2950 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
2951 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2952 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
2953 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
2954 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
2958 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
2959 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2960 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
2961 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
2963 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
2964 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
2965 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
2966 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
2967 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
2968 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
2970 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
2971 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
2972 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
2973 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
2974 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
2976 o Minor features (testing):
2977 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
2978 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
2979 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
2980 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
2981 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
2983 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
2984 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
2985 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
2986 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2988 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
2989 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
2990 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
2991 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2993 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
2994 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
2995 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
2996 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
2998 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
2999 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
3000 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
3001 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
3002 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3003 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
3004 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
3005 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
3006 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
3007 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
3008 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3010 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
3011 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3012 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3013 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3014 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3015 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3017 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3018 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
3019 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
3020 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
3021 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
3022 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
3025 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3026 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
3027 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
3028 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
3029 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
3030 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
3031 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
3032 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
3034 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3035 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
3036 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
3039 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
3040 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
3041 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
3042 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
3043 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
3047 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3048 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3049 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3050 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3051 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3052 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3053 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3057 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
3058 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
3059 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
3060 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
3061 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
3062 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
3063 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
3064 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
3065 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
3066 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
3067 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
3070 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3071 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3072 as soon as packages are available.
3074 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
3075 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3076 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3077 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3078 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3079 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3080 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3081 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3082 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3084 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
3085 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3086 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3087 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3088 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3090 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
3091 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3092 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3093 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3094 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3096 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3097 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3098 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3099 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3101 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3102 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3103 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
3104 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3106 o Minor features (usability):
3107 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
3108 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
3109 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
3111 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
3112 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3113 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3114 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3117 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
3118 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
3119 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
3120 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
3121 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3123 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
3124 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
3127 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
3128 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3129 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3130 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3133 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3134 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3135 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3136 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3139 o Documentation (manpage):
3140 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
3141 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
3142 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3143 Google Season of Docs.
3144 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
3145 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
3147 o Testing (Travis CI):
3148 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3149 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3150 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3152 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3153 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3154 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3155 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3156 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3159 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
3160 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3161 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3162 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
3163 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
3164 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
3165 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
3166 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
3167 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
3168 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
3169 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
3170 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3172 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3173 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3174 as soon as packages are available.
3176 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3177 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3178 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3179 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3180 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3181 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3182 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3183 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3184 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3186 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3187 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3188 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3189 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3190 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3192 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3193 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
3194 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
3195 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
3196 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3198 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3199 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3200 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3201 Closes ticket 33075.
3203 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3204 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3205 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3207 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3208 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3209 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3210 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3211 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3214 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3215 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3216 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3217 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3220 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3221 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3222 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3223 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3225 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3226 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3227 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3228 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3230 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3231 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3232 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3233 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3234 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3237 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
3238 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
3239 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
3240 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
3241 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
3242 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
3243 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
3244 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
3245 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
3246 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
3247 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
3248 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
3250 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3251 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3252 as soon as packages are available.
3254 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3255 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3256 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3257 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3258 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3259 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3260 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3261 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3262 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3264 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3265 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
3266 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
3267 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
3268 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
3270 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3271 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3272 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3274 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3275 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3276 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3277 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3278 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3281 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3282 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3283 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3284 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3287 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3288 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3289 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3290 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3292 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3293 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3294 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3295 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3297 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3298 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3299 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3300 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3301 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3304 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
3305 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
3306 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
3307 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
3308 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
3309 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
3310 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
3311 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
3312 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
3313 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
3314 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
3317 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
3318 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
3319 as soon as packages are available.
3321 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3322 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
3323 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
3324 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
3325 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
3326 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
3327 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3328 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
3329 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
3331 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3332 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3333 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3334 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3335 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
3336 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3337 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3338 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3341 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3342 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3343 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3344 Closes ticket 33075.
3346 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3347 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3348 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3350 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
3351 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3352 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3353 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3354 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3356 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3357 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3358 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3359 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3360 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3363 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3364 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
3365 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
3366 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
3369 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3370 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3371 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3372 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3374 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3375 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3376 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3377 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3378 Closes ticket 32629.
3379 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3380 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3381 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3383 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3384 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3386 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3387 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3388 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
3389 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3391 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3392 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3393 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3394 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3397 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
3398 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
3399 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
3400 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
3403 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
3404 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
3405 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
3406 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3408 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
3409 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
3410 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
3411 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
3413 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3414 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
3415 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
3416 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
3417 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
3418 Closes ticket 33075.
3420 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3421 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
3422 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3424 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
3425 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
3426 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3427 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
3429 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3430 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3431 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3433 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3434 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
3435 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
3436 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
3437 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
3439 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
3440 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
3441 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
3442 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3444 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
3445 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
3446 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
3447 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
3449 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
3450 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
3451 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
3452 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
3455 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3456 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
3457 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
3458 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3460 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
3461 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
3462 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
3463 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3465 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
3466 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
3467 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
3468 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
3469 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
3471 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
3472 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
3473 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
3475 o Documentation (manpage):
3476 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
3477 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
3478 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3481 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
3482 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
3483 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
3484 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
3485 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
3486 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
3488 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3489 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3490 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3491 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3492 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3493 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3494 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3495 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3497 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3498 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3499 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3501 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3502 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
3503 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
3504 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3506 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3507 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
3508 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
3509 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3511 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3512 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
3513 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
3514 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3515 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
3516 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
3519 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3520 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3521 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3523 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3524 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3525 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3526 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3527 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3528 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3529 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3530 Closes ticket 32629.
3532 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3533 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3536 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
3537 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
3538 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
3539 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
3540 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
3541 current version of 0.4.1.x.
3543 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3544 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3545 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3546 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3547 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3548 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3549 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3550 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3552 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3553 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3554 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3556 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
3557 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
3558 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
3559 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
3560 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3562 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3563 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3564 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3566 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3567 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3568 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3569 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3570 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3571 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3572 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3573 Closes ticket 32629.
3575 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3576 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
3579 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
3580 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
3581 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
3582 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
3583 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
3584 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
3585 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
3586 write better code in the future.
3588 o New system requirements:
3589 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
3590 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
3591 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
3593 o Major features (build system):
3594 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
3595 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
3596 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
3597 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
3598 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
3600 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
3601 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
3602 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
3603 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
3604 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3606 o Major features (onion service, controller):
3607 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
3608 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
3609 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
3610 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
3612 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
3613 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
3614 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
3615 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
3617 o Major features (proxy):
3618 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
3619 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
3620 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
3621 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
3622 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
3623 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
3625 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
3626 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
3627 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
3628 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
3629 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
3630 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
3631 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
3632 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
3634 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
3635 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
3636 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
3638 o Major bugfixes (networking):
3639 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
3640 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
3641 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3643 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
3644 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
3645 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
3646 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
3647 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
3648 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3650 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
3651 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
3652 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
3654 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
3655 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
3656 message. Closes ticket 31371.
3658 o Minor features (configuration validation):
3659 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
3660 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
3661 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
3662 Closes ticket 31241.
3664 o Minor features (configuration):
3665 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
3666 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
3668 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
3669 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
3670 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
3671 Implements ticket 32404.
3673 o Minor features (controller):
3674 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
3675 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
3676 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
3678 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3679 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3680 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3681 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3683 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3684 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
3685 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
3688 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3689 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
3690 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
3691 Closes ticket 32772.
3693 o Minor features (developer tools):
3694 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
3695 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
3696 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
3697 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
3698 target. Closes ticket 31919.
3699 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
3700 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
3701 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
3703 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
3704 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
3705 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
3706 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
3708 o Minor features (Doxygen):
3709 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
3710 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
3711 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
3713 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
3714 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
3715 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
3716 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
3717 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
3718 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
3719 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
3720 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
3722 o Minor features (git scripts):
3723 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
3724 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
3725 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
3726 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
3727 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
3728 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
3729 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
3730 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
3731 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
3732 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
3733 Closes ticket 32216.
3734 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
3735 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
3736 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
3737 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
3739 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
3740 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
3741 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
3742 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
3743 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
3744 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
3746 o Minor features (portability, android):
3747 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
3748 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
3749 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3751 o Minor features (relay modularity):
3752 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
3753 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
3754 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3755 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3756 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
3757 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
3758 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
3760 o Minor features (relay):
3761 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
3762 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
3764 o Minor features (release tools):
3765 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
3766 Closes ticket 32704.
3768 o Minor features (testing):
3769 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
3770 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
3771 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
3772 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
3773 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
3774 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
3777 o Minor features (tests, Android):
3778 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
3779 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
3780 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
3782 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3783 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
3784 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
3786 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
3787 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
3788 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3790 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
3791 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
3792 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
3793 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3795 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3796 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
3797 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
3798 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
3799 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
3800 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
3801 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
3802 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
3803 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
3804 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
3805 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3806 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
3807 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
3808 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
3809 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3811 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3812 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
3813 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
3816 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
3817 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
3818 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
3819 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3821 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
3822 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
3823 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
3825 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
3826 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
3827 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
3828 Closes ticket 32213.
3829 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
3830 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
3831 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
3833 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
3834 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3835 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3836 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3837 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3840 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3841 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
3843 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
3844 Closes ticket 32216.
3846 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
3847 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
3848 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
3849 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
3852 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
3853 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
3854 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
3855 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3857 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
3858 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
3859 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
3860 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
3861 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
3864 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
3865 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
3866 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
3867 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
3868 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
3869 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3871 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3872 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
3873 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
3874 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
3875 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3877 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
3878 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
3879 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3881 o Minor bugfixes (test):
3882 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
3883 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
3884 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
3887 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3888 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
3889 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3890 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
3891 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
3892 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3893 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
3894 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
3897 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3898 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
3899 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
3900 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
3901 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
3902 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3904 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
3905 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
3906 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3908 o Deprecated features:
3909 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
3910 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
3911 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
3915 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
3916 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
3917 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
3918 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
3919 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
3920 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
3921 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
3922 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
3924 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
3925 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
3928 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
3929 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
3930 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
3931 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
3932 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
3933 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
3935 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
3936 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
3937 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
3938 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
3939 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
3942 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
3943 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
3945 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
3946 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
3947 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
3948 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
3949 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
3950 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
3951 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
3952 Closes ticket 32629.
3953 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
3955 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
3956 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
3957 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
3959 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
3960 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
3961 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
3963 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
3964 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
3965 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
3966 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
3967 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
3968 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
3969 Solves part of ticket 32339.
3970 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
3971 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
3972 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
3973 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
3974 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
3975 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
3976 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
3977 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
3978 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
3979 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
3981 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
3982 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
3984 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
3985 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
3986 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
3988 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
3989 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
3990 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
3991 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
3992 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
3993 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
3995 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
3996 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
3997 Closes ticket 32163.
3998 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4000 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4002 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4003 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4004 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4005 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4006 Closes ticket 32304.
4007 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4008 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4009 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4010 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4011 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4014 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4015 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4017 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4020 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4021 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4022 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4023 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4024 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4025 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4026 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4027 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4029 o Documentation (manpage):
4030 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4032 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4034 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4035 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4036 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4038 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4039 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4040 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4042 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4043 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4046 o Testing (continuous integration):
4047 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4050 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
4051 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
4052 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
4053 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
4054 bugs present in previous series.
4056 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4057 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4058 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4059 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4061 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
4062 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
4063 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
4064 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
4066 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4067 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4069 o Minor features (geoip):
4070 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4071 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4074 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
4075 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
4076 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4077 Closes ticket 32500.
4080 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
4081 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
4082 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
4083 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4085 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4086 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
4087 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
4088 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
4090 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4091 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
4092 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
4093 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4095 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4096 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4097 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4098 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4099 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4100 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4101 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4102 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4104 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4105 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4106 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4107 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4108 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4110 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4111 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4112 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4113 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4114 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4117 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4118 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4119 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4120 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4122 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4123 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4124 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4126 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4127 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4128 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4130 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4131 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4132 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4133 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4134 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4135 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4137 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4138 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4139 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4140 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4142 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4143 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4144 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4145 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4146 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4147 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4148 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4149 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
4150 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
4151 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
4154 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4155 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
4156 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4157 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
4158 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4159 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4160 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4161 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4162 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4164 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4165 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4166 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4167 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4169 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4170 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4171 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4172 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4173 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4176 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4177 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
4178 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
4180 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4181 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4182 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4184 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4185 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4186 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4188 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4189 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4190 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4191 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4193 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4194 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4195 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4196 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4197 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4199 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4200 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
4201 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4203 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4204 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4205 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4208 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4209 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
4210 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
4212 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4213 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4214 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4215 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4217 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4218 Closes ticket 31859.
4219 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4220 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4222 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4223 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4224 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4225 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4226 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4227 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4228 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4229 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4230 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4231 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4233 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4234 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4235 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4236 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4237 Closes ticket 32500.
4240 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
4241 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
4242 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
4243 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
4244 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
4246 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
4247 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
4248 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
4249 support until 1 Feb 2022.
4251 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4252 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4255 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4256 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4257 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4258 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4259 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4260 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4261 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4262 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4263 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4264 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4265 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4267 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4268 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4269 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4270 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4271 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4272 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4274 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4275 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4276 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4277 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4278 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4281 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4282 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4283 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4284 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4285 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4287 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4288 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4289 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4290 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4293 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4294 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
4295 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
4296 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
4297 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
4298 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
4299 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
4300 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4302 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4303 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4304 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4305 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4306 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4308 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4309 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4310 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4311 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4312 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4315 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4316 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4317 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4319 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4320 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4321 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4324 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4325 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4326 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4328 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4329 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4330 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4331 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4333 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4334 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4335 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4336 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4337 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4339 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4340 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4341 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4343 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4344 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4345 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4348 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4349 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4350 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4352 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4353 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4354 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4356 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4357 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4358 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4360 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4361 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
4362 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
4365 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4366 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4367 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4368 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4369 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4370 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4372 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4373 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4374 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4375 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4376 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4378 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4379 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4380 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4383 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4384 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4385 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4387 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4388 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4389 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4390 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4392 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4393 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4394 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4395 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4397 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4398 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4399 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4400 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4402 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4403 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4404 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4405 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4407 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4408 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4409 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4410 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4411 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4412 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4413 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4415 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4416 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4417 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4418 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4420 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4421 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4422 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4423 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4425 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4426 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4427 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4430 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4431 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4432 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4433 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4434 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4435 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4436 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4438 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4439 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4440 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4441 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4444 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4445 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4446 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4447 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4448 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4450 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4451 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4452 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4453 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4454 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4456 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4457 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4458 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4461 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4462 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4463 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4464 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4465 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4467 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4468 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4469 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4470 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4472 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4473 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4474 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4475 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4476 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4479 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4480 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4481 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4484 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4485 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4486 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4487 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4489 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4490 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
4491 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
4492 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
4494 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4495 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4496 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4497 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4499 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4500 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4501 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4502 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4505 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4506 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4507 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4508 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4509 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4510 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4513 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4514 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
4515 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
4517 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
4518 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
4519 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4521 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4522 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4523 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4524 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4526 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4527 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4528 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4530 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4531 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4532 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4533 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4534 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4536 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4537 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
4538 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
4541 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4542 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
4543 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
4544 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
4545 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
4546 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4547 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
4548 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
4549 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
4550 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4552 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4553 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
4554 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
4555 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
4557 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4558 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
4559 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
4560 Resolves issue 29702.
4562 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4563 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
4565 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4566 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
4567 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
4568 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
4571 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4572 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
4573 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
4574 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
4576 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
4577 Closes ticket 31859.
4578 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
4579 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
4581 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4582 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
4583 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
4584 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
4585 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
4586 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
4587 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
4588 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
4589 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
4590 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
4592 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4593 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
4594 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
4595 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
4596 Closes ticket 32500.
4598 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
4599 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
4600 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
4603 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
4604 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
4607 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4608 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
4609 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
4610 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
4611 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
4612 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
4613 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
4614 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
4615 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
4616 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
4617 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4619 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4620 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
4621 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
4622 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
4623 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
4624 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4626 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4627 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
4628 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
4629 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
4630 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
4631 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4633 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4634 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
4635 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
4636 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
4637 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
4640 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4641 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
4642 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
4643 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
4644 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
4646 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
4647 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
4648 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
4649 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
4652 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4653 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
4654 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
4655 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
4656 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4658 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4659 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
4660 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
4661 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
4662 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
4665 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4666 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
4667 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
4668 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
4669 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
4670 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
4671 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
4672 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4674 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4675 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
4676 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
4677 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
4678 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
4681 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4682 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
4683 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
4685 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4686 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
4687 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
4690 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4691 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
4692 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
4693 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
4695 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4696 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
4697 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
4700 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4701 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
4702 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
4704 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4705 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
4706 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
4707 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
4709 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4710 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
4711 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
4712 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
4713 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
4715 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
4716 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
4717 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
4719 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4720 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
4721 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
4722 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
4724 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4725 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
4726 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
4729 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4730 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
4731 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
4732 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
4733 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
4734 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
4735 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
4736 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
4737 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
4738 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
4739 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
4740 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
4741 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
4744 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4745 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
4746 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
4747 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
4748 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
4750 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
4751 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
4752 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4754 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4755 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
4756 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4758 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4759 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
4760 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4762 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4763 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
4764 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
4767 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4768 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
4769 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4771 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4772 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
4773 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
4774 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
4775 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
4776 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4778 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4779 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
4780 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
4781 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
4782 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4784 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4785 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
4786 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
4789 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4790 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
4791 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4793 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
4794 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
4795 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4797 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4798 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
4799 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
4800 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
4802 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4803 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
4804 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
4805 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4807 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4808 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
4809 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
4810 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
4812 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
4813 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
4814 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
4815 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
4817 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4818 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
4819 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4820 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
4821 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4822 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
4823 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4825 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4826 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
4827 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
4828 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
4830 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
4831 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
4832 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
4833 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
4835 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4836 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
4837 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
4840 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4841 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
4842 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
4843 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4844 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
4845 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
4846 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4848 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4849 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
4850 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
4851 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
4854 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4855 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
4856 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
4857 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
4858 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4860 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
4861 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
4862 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4864 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4865 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
4866 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
4867 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
4868 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4869 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
4870 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
4871 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
4872 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
4873 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
4874 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4876 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4877 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
4878 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
4879 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
4880 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
4882 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4883 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
4884 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
4887 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4888 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
4889 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
4890 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
4891 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4893 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4894 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
4895 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
4896 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4898 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4899 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
4900 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
4901 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
4902 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
4905 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4906 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
4907 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
4910 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
4911 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
4912 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
4913 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4915 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4916 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
4917 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
4918 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4920 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4921 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
4922 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4924 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
4925 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
4926 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
4927 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4929 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4930 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
4931 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
4932 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
4935 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
4936 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
4937 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
4938 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
4939 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
4940 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
4943 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
4944 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
4945 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
4946 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4948 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
4949 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
4950 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4952 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
4953 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
4954 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
4956 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4957 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
4958 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
4959 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
4960 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
4961 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
4962 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
4964 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4965 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
4966 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
4969 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
4970 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
4971 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
4972 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
4973 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
4974 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
4975 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
4976 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4978 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
4979 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
4980 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
4981 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4982 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
4983 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
4986 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
4987 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
4988 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
4989 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
4990 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4992 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
4993 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
4994 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
4995 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
4996 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
4997 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
4998 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
4999 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5001 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5002 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5003 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5006 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5007 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5008 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5009 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5010 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5011 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5012 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5013 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5014 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5015 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5017 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
5018 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
5019 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
5020 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
5021 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
5022 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5024 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5025 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5026 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5027 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5029 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5030 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
5031 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
5032 Resolves issue 29702.
5034 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5035 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
5037 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
5038 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5039 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5040 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5043 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5044 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5045 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5046 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5048 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5049 Closes ticket 31859.
5050 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5051 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5053 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5054 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5055 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5056 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5057 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5058 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5059 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5060 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5061 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5062 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5064 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5065 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5066 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5067 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5068 Closes ticket 32500.
5070 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
5071 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
5072 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
5073 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
5075 o Minor features (build system):
5076 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5077 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5079 o Minor features (geoip):
5080 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5081 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
5083 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5084 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5085 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5086 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5087 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5088 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5090 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5091 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5092 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5094 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5095 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
5096 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5098 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5099 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5100 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5101 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5102 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5104 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
5105 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
5106 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
5107 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
5108 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5110 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
5111 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
5112 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5113 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
5114 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5116 o Testing (continuous integration):
5117 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5118 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5119 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5120 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5121 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5122 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5123 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5124 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5125 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5128 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
5129 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
5130 from earlier versions of Tor.
5132 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5133 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5134 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5135 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5136 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5137 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5138 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5139 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5141 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5142 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5143 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5144 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5145 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5148 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5149 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5150 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5151 Closes ticket 29669.
5153 o Minor features (testing):
5154 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5155 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5156 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5157 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5159 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5160 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5161 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5162 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5164 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5165 Closes ticket 31859.
5166 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5167 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5169 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5170 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5171 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5172 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5174 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5175 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5176 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5177 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5178 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5180 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5181 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5182 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5183 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5185 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5186 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5187 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5189 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5190 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5191 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5192 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5193 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5196 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5197 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5198 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5200 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5201 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5202 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5204 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5205 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5206 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5208 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5209 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5210 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5211 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5213 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5214 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5215 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5218 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5219 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
5220 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5221 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
5222 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
5224 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5225 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5226 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5227 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5230 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5231 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5232 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5233 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5234 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5235 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5238 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
5239 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
5240 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
5241 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
5243 o Major features (directory authorities):
5244 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5245 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5246 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5248 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5249 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5250 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5251 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5253 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5254 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5255 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5256 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5257 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5259 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5260 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5261 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5262 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5263 Closes ticket 31779.
5265 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5266 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5267 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5268 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5270 o Minor features (geoip):
5271 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5272 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
5274 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5275 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5276 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5277 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5278 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5279 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5280 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5282 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5283 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5284 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5287 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5288 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5289 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5291 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5292 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
5293 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
5294 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5296 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5297 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5298 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5299 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5301 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5302 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5303 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5304 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5305 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5306 - Rate-limit our the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5307 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5308 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5309 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5310 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5311 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5313 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5314 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5315 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5316 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5318 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5319 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5320 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5323 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5324 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5325 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5327 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5328 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5329 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5330 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5332 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5333 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5334 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5336 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5337 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5338 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5339 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5340 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5341 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5342 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5344 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5348 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5349 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5351 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5352 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5353 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5354 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5355 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5356 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5359 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
5360 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5361 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
5362 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
5365 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5366 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5367 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5368 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5369 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5370 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5371 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5372 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5373 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5375 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5376 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5377 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5380 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5381 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5382 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5385 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5386 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5387 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5388 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5390 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5391 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5392 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5394 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5395 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5396 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
5397 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5399 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5400 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5401 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5402 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5405 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5406 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5407 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5408 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5409 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5411 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5412 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5413 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5416 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5417 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5418 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5420 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5421 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5422 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5423 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5424 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5425 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5427 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5428 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5429 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5430 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5431 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5432 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5433 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5434 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5435 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5436 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5438 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5439 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5440 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5441 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5444 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
5445 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
5446 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
5447 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
5448 Tor's stability and ease of development.
5450 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5451 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5452 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5453 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5454 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5455 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5458 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5459 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5460 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5461 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5462 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5463 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5466 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5467 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5468 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5469 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5470 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5471 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5472 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5473 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5474 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5476 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5477 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5478 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5479 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5480 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5481 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5482 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5483 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5484 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5485 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5486 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5487 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5488 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5489 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5490 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5492 o Minor features (build system):
5493 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5494 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5495 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5497 o Minor features (compilation):
5498 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5499 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5500 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5502 o Minor features (configuration):
5503 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5504 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5505 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5506 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5508 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5509 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5510 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5511 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5513 o Minor features (debugging):
5514 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5515 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5516 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5517 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5519 o Minor features (git hooks):
5520 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5521 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5522 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5523 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5524 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5526 o Minor features (git scripts):
5527 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5528 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5529 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5530 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5531 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5532 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5533 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5534 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5535 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5536 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5537 Closes ticket 31314.
5538 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5539 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5540 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5541 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5542 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5543 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5544 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5545 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5546 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5548 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5549 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5550 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5553 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5554 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5555 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5557 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5558 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5559 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5561 o Minor features (onion service):
5562 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5563 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5564 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5565 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5567 o Minor features (stem tests):
5568 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5569 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5572 o Minor features (testing):
5573 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5574 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5575 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5576 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5577 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5578 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5579 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5580 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5581 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5582 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5583 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5585 o Minor features (token bucket):
5586 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5587 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5589 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5590 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5591 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5592 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5593 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5594 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5595 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5596 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5599 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5600 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5601 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5603 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5604 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5605 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5606 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5607 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5608 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5611 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5612 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5613 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5614 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5616 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5617 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5618 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5620 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5621 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5622 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5623 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5625 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5626 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5627 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5628 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5629 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5630 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5631 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5632 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5633 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5634 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5636 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5637 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5638 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5641 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5642 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5643 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5645 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5646 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5647 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5648 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5649 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5650 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5651 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5652 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5653 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5654 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5657 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5658 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5659 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5660 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5663 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5664 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5665 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5666 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5668 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5669 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5670 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5671 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5672 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5673 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5674 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5675 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5676 Closes ticket 31678.
5678 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5679 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5680 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5681 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5682 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5684 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5685 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5686 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5687 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5688 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5689 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5690 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5691 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5692 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5695 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5696 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5697 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5699 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5700 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5701 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5703 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5704 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5705 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5708 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5709 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5710 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5711 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5712 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5713 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5715 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5716 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5717 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5718 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5721 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5722 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5723 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5724 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5725 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5727 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5728 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5729 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5730 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5731 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5732 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5734 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5735 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5736 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5737 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5739 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5740 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5741 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5742 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5743 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5745 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5746 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5747 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5748 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5750 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5751 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5752 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5753 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5754 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5756 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5757 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5758 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5759 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5760 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5763 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5764 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5765 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5768 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5769 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5770 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5771 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5772 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5773 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5775 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5776 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5777 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5778 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5779 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5780 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5781 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5782 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5783 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5784 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5787 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5788 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5789 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5790 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5791 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5792 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5793 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5796 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5797 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5798 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5799 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5800 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5801 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5803 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5807 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5808 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5809 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5810 Closes ticket 30967.
5812 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5813 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5814 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5815 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5816 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5817 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5818 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5819 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5820 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5821 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5822 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5823 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5824 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5825 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5826 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5827 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5829 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5830 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5831 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5832 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5833 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5834 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5835 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5836 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5837 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5838 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5840 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5841 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5842 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5844 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5845 Closes ticket 30806.
5846 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5847 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5850 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5851 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5852 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5854 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5855 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5856 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5859 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
5860 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
5861 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
5862 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
5863 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
5864 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
5865 bugfixes on earlier versions.
5867 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
5868 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
5869 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5870 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5872 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
5873 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
5875 o Directory authority changes:
5876 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5879 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
5880 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
5881 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
5882 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
5884 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
5885 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
5886 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
5887 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
5888 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
5889 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
5890 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5892 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5893 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
5894 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
5895 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5897 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
5898 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
5899 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
5900 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
5901 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5903 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
5904 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
5905 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
5906 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
5907 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
5908 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
5910 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
5911 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
5912 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
5915 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5916 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
5917 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5919 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
5920 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
5921 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
5924 o Testing (continuous integration):
5925 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
5926 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
5927 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
5931 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
5932 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
5933 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
5934 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
5936 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5937 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5938 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5939 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5940 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5941 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5943 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5944 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5945 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5947 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
5948 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5949 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5950 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5951 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5953 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
5954 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5955 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5957 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
5958 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
5959 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5961 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
5962 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
5963 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
5964 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5967 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
5968 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
5971 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
5972 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
5973 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
5976 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5977 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
5978 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
5982 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
5983 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
5984 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
5986 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
5987 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5988 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5989 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5990 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5993 o Minor features (geoip):
5994 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5995 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
5997 o Minor features (logging):
5998 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
5999 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6000 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6001 Closes ticket 30686.
6003 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
6004 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6005 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6007 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
6008 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6009 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6010 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6011 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6012 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6013 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6015 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6016 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6017 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6018 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6020 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6021 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
6022 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
6023 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
6024 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6027 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
6028 Closes ticket 30630.
6031 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
6032 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
6033 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
6034 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
6035 SENDME implementation.
6037 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6038 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6039 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6040 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6041 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6042 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6043 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6044 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6045 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6046 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6047 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6049 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
6050 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
6051 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
6052 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
6053 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
6054 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6056 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6057 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
6058 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
6059 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
6060 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6063 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6064 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6065 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6066 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6067 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6068 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6071 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6072 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6073 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6076 o Minor features (maintenance):
6077 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6078 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6079 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6081 o Minor features (testing):
6082 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
6083 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
6084 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
6085 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
6087 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
6088 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
6089 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
6091 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
6092 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6093 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6094 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6096 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
6097 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
6098 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
6100 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
6101 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
6104 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
6105 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
6106 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
6109 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
6110 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6111 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6114 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
6115 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6116 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6117 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6119 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
6120 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6121 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6122 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6125 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
6126 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6127 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6128 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6129 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6130 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6133 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
6134 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
6135 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
6136 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
6137 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
6138 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6140 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
6141 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
6142 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
6143 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
6146 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6147 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6148 Resolves issue 29702.
6151 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
6152 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
6153 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
6154 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
6155 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
6156 performance in several areas.
6158 o Major features (circuit padding):
6159 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6160 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6161 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6162 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6163 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6164 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6165 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6166 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6167 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6169 o Major features (code organization):
6170 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6171 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6172 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6173 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6176 o Major features (controller protocol):
6177 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6178 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6179 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6180 Closes ticket 30091.
6182 o Major features (flow control):
6183 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6184 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6185 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6186 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6187 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6188 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6189 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6191 o Major features (performance):
6192 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6193 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6194 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6196 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6197 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6198 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6199 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6200 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6201 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6202 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6203 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6204 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6206 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6207 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6208 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6209 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6210 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6212 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6213 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6214 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6215 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6218 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6219 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6221 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6222 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6223 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6224 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6225 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6226 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6227 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6229 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6230 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6231 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6233 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6234 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6235 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6237 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6239 o Minor features (controller):
6240 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6241 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6242 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6244 o Minor features (debugging):
6245 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6246 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6247 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6248 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6250 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6251 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6252 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6253 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6254 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6255 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6256 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6257 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6258 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6259 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6261 o Minor features (developer tools):
6262 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6263 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6264 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6265 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6266 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6268 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6269 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6271 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6272 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6274 o Minor features (geoip):
6275 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6276 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6278 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6279 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6280 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6282 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6283 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6284 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6285 addresses. Implements 26992.
6287 o Minor features (modularity):
6288 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
6289 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
6291 o Minor features (performance):
6292 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
6293 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
6294 Closes ticket 28837.
6296 o Minor features (testing):
6297 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
6298 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
6299 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
6300 Implements ticket 29732.
6301 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
6302 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
6304 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
6305 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
6307 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
6308 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
6309 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
6310 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
6311 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
6312 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6314 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
6315 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
6316 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
6317 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6319 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
6320 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
6321 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6322 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
6323 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
6324 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
6325 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6326 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
6327 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
6328 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6329 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
6330 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6331 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
6332 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
6333 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6334 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
6335 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
6336 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6338 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
6339 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6340 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6341 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6343 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6344 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
6345 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
6346 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
6347 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
6349 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
6350 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
6351 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6352 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6354 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
6355 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
6356 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6357 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
6358 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
6359 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
6361 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
6362 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
6364 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6365 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6366 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6367 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6368 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6369 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
6370 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
6373 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
6374 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6375 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6378 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
6379 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6380 implemenation) when failing to load an onion service client
6381 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6382 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
6383 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
6384 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
6385 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
6387 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
6388 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
6389 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6390 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
6391 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
6392 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
6393 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6395 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
6396 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
6397 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
6398 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
6399 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
6400 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6402 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
6403 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
6404 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
6405 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
6406 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6408 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6409 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
6410 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
6412 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
6413 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
6414 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
6417 o Minor bugfixes (python):
6418 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
6419 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
6420 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
6422 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
6423 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
6424 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
6425 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
6426 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6428 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6429 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
6430 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
6431 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
6432 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6434 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6435 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
6436 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
6437 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6438 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
6439 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6440 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
6441 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6442 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
6443 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
6444 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
6445 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
6446 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6448 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
6449 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
6450 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
6451 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
6452 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6454 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6455 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
6456 port. Implements ticket 30007.
6457 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
6458 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
6459 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
6460 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
6461 string to directory connection with or without compression.
6462 Resolves issue 28816.
6463 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
6464 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
6465 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
6466 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
6467 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
6468 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
6469 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
6470 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
6471 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
6472 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
6473 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
6474 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
6475 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
6476 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
6477 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
6478 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
6479 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6480 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
6481 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6482 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
6483 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
6484 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
6485 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
6486 Closes ticket 29894.
6487 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
6488 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
6489 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
6490 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
6493 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
6494 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
6498 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
6499 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
6500 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
6501 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
6504 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
6505 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
6506 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
6507 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
6508 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
6509 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
6510 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
6511 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
6512 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
6513 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
6514 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
6517 o Testing (chutney):
6518 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
6519 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
6520 Closes ticket 27251.
6523 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
6524 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
6525 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
6526 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
6527 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
6528 long-term maintainability.
6530 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
6531 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
6532 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6533 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6535 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
6536 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6538 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6539 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6540 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6541 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6543 o Minor features (diagnostic):
6544 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
6545 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
6548 o Minor features (testing):
6549 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
6550 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
6553 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
6554 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6555 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6557 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
6558 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
6559 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
6560 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6562 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6563 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
6564 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
6566 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
6567 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
6568 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6571 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
6572 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
6573 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
6574 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
6576 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
6577 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6578 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6579 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6580 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6581 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6583 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
6584 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6585 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6586 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6587 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6589 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
6590 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
6591 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
6594 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6595 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
6596 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
6597 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
6598 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
6601 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6602 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6603 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6606 o Minor features (dormant mode):
6607 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
6608 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
6609 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
6610 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
6611 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
6612 background. Closes ticket 29357.
6614 o Minor features (geoip):
6615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6616 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
6618 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
6619 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6620 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6621 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6623 o Minor bugfixes (security):
6624 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6625 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6626 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6627 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6628 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6629 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6630 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6631 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6633 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6634 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6635 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6636 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6638 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
6639 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6640 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6641 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6642 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6644 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6645 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6646 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6648 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
6649 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
6650 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
6653 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
6654 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6655 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6658 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
6659 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
6660 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6662 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6663 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
6664 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6666 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6667 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
6668 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
6669 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
6670 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
6671 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
6674 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6675 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
6676 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
6677 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
6678 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6680 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6681 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6682 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6683 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6684 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6685 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6688 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
6689 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6690 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6691 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6692 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6693 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6694 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6695 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6697 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6698 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
6699 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
6700 Resolves issue 28816.
6701 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
6702 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
6705 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
6706 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
6709 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
6710 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
6711 bugs from earlier versions.
6713 o Minor features (address selection):
6714 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6715 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6716 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6717 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6718 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6719 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6720 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6722 o Minor features (geoip):
6723 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6724 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
6726 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
6727 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
6728 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
6729 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6731 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
6732 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6733 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6734 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6735 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6736 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6737 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6738 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6739 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6740 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6741 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6743 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
6744 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6745 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6746 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6748 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
6749 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6750 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6752 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
6753 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
6754 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
6757 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
6758 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
6759 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6761 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
6762 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6763 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6764 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6765 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6766 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6767 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6769 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
6770 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6771 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6774 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
6775 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6776 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6777 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6778 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6779 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6780 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6781 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6782 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
6783 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6785 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
6786 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6787 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6788 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6789 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6790 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6793 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
6794 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
6795 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
6798 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6799 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6800 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6802 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6803 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6804 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6805 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6806 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6807 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6808 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6809 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6811 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6812 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6813 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
6814 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
6815 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6817 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6818 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
6819 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
6820 Patches from "Mangix".
6822 o Minor features (geoip):
6823 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6824 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6826 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6827 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
6830 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6831 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
6832 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
6833 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
6834 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
6835 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
6837 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6838 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
6839 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
6840 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
6843 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6844 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6845 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6846 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6848 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6849 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
6850 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
6853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6854 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
6855 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
6856 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6858 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6859 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
6860 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
6861 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
6863 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6864 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
6865 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
6866 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
6867 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
6868 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
6870 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6871 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
6872 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
6873 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
6874 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6876 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6877 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
6878 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
6879 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
6880 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6882 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6883 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
6884 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
6886 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
6887 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
6888 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
6890 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6891 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6892 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6893 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6895 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6896 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
6897 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
6899 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6900 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
6901 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6902 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
6903 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
6906 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
6907 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
6908 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
6909 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
6910 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6913 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
6914 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
6915 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
6916 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
6917 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6919 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6920 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6921 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6922 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6923 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6924 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6925 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6926 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6928 o Minor features (geoip):
6929 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6930 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6932 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6933 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6934 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6935 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6937 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6938 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6939 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6940 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6941 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6944 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
6945 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6946 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6947 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6949 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
6950 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
6951 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
6952 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
6954 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6955 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6956 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6957 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6958 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6959 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6960 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6961 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6963 o Minor features (geoip):
6964 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6965 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
6967 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6968 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
6969 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
6970 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
6972 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6973 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
6974 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
6975 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
6976 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
6979 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
6980 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
6981 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
6982 backward compatibility.
6984 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
6985 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
6986 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
6988 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
6989 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
6990 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
6991 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
6992 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
6993 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
6994 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
6995 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
6997 o Major bugfixes (networking):
6998 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
6999 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7000 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7001 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7003 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
7004 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
7005 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
7006 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
7007 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
7008 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
7009 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7011 o Minor features (compilation):
7012 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7013 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7014 Patches from "Mangix".
7016 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7017 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7018 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7019 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7020 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7021 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7022 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7025 o Minor features (directory authority):
7026 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7027 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7028 Closes ticket 26698.
7030 o Minor features (geoip):
7031 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7032 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7034 o Minor features (testing):
7035 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7038 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7039 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7040 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7041 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7043 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7044 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
7045 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7046 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7047 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7049 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7050 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7051 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7052 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7054 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
7055 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
7056 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
7058 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7059 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7060 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7061 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7062 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7063 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7064 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7066 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7067 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7068 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7069 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7070 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7072 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7073 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7074 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7076 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7077 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7078 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7080 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7081 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7082 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7083 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7085 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7086 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7087 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7088 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7089 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7092 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
7093 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
7094 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7095 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
7096 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
7097 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
7098 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7099 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7100 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7101 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7102 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7106 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7107 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7108 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7111 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7114 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
7115 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
7116 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
7117 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
7118 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
7119 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
7122 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7123 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7124 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7125 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7126 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7127 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7129 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7130 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7132 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7133 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7136 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7137 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7138 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7139 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7140 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7141 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7142 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7143 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7144 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7147 o Major features (circuit padding):
7148 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7149 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7150 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7151 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7152 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7153 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7154 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7155 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7158 o Major features (refactoring):
7159 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7160 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7161 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7162 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7165 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7166 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7167 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7168 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7169 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7172 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7173 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7176 o Minor features (controller):
7177 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7178 Implements ticket 28843.
7180 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7181 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7182 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7183 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7185 o Minor features (directory authority):
7186 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7187 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7188 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7189 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7192 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7193 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7194 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7195 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7196 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7197 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7198 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7200 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7201 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7202 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7204 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7205 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7206 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7207 Closes ticket 28518.
7209 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7210 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7211 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7212 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7214 o Minor features (IPv6):
7215 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7216 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7217 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7218 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7219 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7220 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7221 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7222 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7223 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7224 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7226 o Minor features (log messages):
7227 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7228 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7231 o Minor features (memory usage):
7232 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7233 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7234 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7235 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7236 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7238 o Minor features (parsing):
7239 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7240 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7241 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7243 o Minor features (performance):
7244 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7245 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7246 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7247 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7249 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7250 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7251 Closes ticket 28852.
7252 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7253 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7254 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7255 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7256 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7257 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7259 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7260 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7261 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7262 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7263 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7265 o Minor features (process management):
7266 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7267 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7268 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7269 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7270 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7272 o Minor features (relay):
7273 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7274 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7275 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7277 o Minor features (required protocols):
7278 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7279 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7280 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7281 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7282 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7283 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7284 297; closes ticket 27735.
7286 o Minor features (testing):
7287 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7288 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7290 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7291 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7292 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7293 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7294 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7297 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7298 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7299 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7300 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7302 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7303 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7304 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7306 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7307 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7308 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7309 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7311 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7312 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7313 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7314 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7315 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7317 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7318 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7319 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7320 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7321 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7322 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7323 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7325 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7326 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7327 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7328 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7331 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7332 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7333 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7334 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7335 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7336 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7338 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7339 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7340 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7341 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7343 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7344 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7345 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7346 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7347 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7348 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7350 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7351 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7352 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7353 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7355 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7356 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7357 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7358 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7359 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7361 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
7362 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7363 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7364 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7365 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7367 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7368 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7369 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7370 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7371 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7373 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7374 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7375 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7376 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7378 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7379 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7380 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7381 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7382 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7383 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7384 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7385 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7389 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7390 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7391 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7392 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7394 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7397 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7398 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7399 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7400 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7401 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7402 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7403 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7406 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7408 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7409 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7411 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7412 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7413 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7416 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7417 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7419 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7420 Resolves ticket 28006.
7421 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7422 Resolves ticket 28012.
7423 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7424 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7425 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7426 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7430 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
7431 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
7432 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
7433 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
7434 to this version, or to a later series.
7436 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
7437 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
7438 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
7439 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
7440 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
7441 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
7443 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7444 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7445 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7446 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7447 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7450 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7451 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
7452 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
7453 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7455 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7456 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
7457 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
7458 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
7459 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
7460 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
7461 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
7462 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
7464 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7465 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
7466 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
7467 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
7469 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7470 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7471 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7472 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7473 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7475 o Minor features (geoip):
7476 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7477 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7479 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7480 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7481 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7482 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7483 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7484 Closes ticket 28973.
7486 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7487 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7488 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7489 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7491 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7492 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7493 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7496 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7497 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
7498 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
7500 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7501 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7502 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7503 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7505 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7506 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
7507 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
7508 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7510 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7511 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7512 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7513 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7514 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7515 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7518 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7519 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
7520 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
7523 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7524 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
7525 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
7526 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
7527 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7529 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7530 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7531 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7532 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7533 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7535 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7536 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7537 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7538 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7539 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7540 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7542 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
7543 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
7544 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
7547 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7548 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7549 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7551 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7552 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
7553 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7555 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7556 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
7557 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
7560 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7561 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
7562 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
7563 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
7564 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
7565 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7566 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
7567 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7569 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
7570 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
7571 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
7572 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
7574 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7575 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
7576 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7577 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
7578 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
7579 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7580 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
7581 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
7582 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
7583 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
7585 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7586 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
7587 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
7588 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
7589 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
7590 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
7592 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
7593 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
7594 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
7595 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
7596 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7598 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7599 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7600 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7603 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
7604 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
7605 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
7606 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
7609 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
7610 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
7611 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
7614 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7615 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7616 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7617 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7618 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7621 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7622 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7623 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7624 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7625 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7626 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7627 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7629 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7630 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7631 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7634 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
7635 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
7636 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
7637 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
7638 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
7641 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7642 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7643 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7644 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7645 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7647 o Minor features (geoip):
7648 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7649 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7651 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7652 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7653 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7654 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7655 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7656 Closes ticket 28973.
7658 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7659 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7660 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7661 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7663 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7664 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7665 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7666 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7667 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7670 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7671 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7672 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7673 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7675 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7676 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7677 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7679 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7680 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7681 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7682 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7684 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7685 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
7686 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
7687 were the same, the default setting (0) for
7688 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
7689 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
7692 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
7693 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7694 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7696 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
7697 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
7698 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
7699 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
7700 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7702 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7703 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7704 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7705 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7706 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7707 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7709 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
7710 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
7711 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
7712 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
7714 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
7715 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7716 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7719 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
7720 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
7721 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
7722 affecting directory caches.
7724 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
7725 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
7726 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
7727 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
7728 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
7729 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
7730 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
7731 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
7733 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
7734 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
7735 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
7736 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
7737 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
7738 so it will recognize them.
7740 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
7741 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
7742 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
7743 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
7744 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
7745 with the latest stable release.)
7747 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
7748 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7750 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
7751 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
7752 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
7753 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
7754 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
7755 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
7756 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
7758 o Minor features (compilation):
7759 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
7760 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
7762 o Minor features (geoip):
7763 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7764 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
7766 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
7767 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
7768 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
7769 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
7770 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
7771 Closes ticket 28973.
7773 o Minor features (performance):
7774 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
7775 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
7776 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
7777 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
7778 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
7779 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
7780 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
7781 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
7782 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
7783 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
7785 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7786 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
7787 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7789 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
7790 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
7791 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
7792 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
7793 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7795 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7796 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
7797 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
7798 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7799 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
7800 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
7801 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
7803 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
7804 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
7805 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
7807 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7808 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
7809 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
7813 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
7814 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
7815 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
7816 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
7818 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
7819 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
7820 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
7823 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7824 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
7825 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
7826 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
7827 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
7829 o Minor features (geoip):
7830 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7831 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
7833 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7834 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
7835 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7837 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7838 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
7839 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
7840 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
7842 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7843 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
7844 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
7845 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
7846 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
7847 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7849 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
7850 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
7851 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
7854 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7855 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
7856 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
7857 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7858 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
7859 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
7860 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7862 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
7863 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
7864 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
7865 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
7866 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
7867 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
7868 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
7869 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
7871 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
7872 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
7873 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
7874 reported by Keifer Bly.
7877 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
7878 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
7880 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
7881 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
7882 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
7883 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
7884 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
7885 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
7886 Closes ticket 19566.
7888 o Documentation (onion services):
7889 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
7890 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
7891 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
7892 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
7893 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
7894 process. Closes ticket 28275.
7897 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
7898 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
7899 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
7902 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
7903 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
7904 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
7905 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
7906 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
7909 o Minor features (geoip):
7910 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
7911 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
7913 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7914 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
7915 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
7916 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7918 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
7919 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
7920 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
7921 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
7922 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
7925 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
7926 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
7927 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
7928 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
7930 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
7931 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
7932 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7934 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7935 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
7936 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7938 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
7939 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
7940 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
7943 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7944 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
7945 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
7948 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7949 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
7950 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
7952 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7953 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
7954 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
7955 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
7956 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
7957 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
7958 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
7959 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
7960 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
7961 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7964 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
7965 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
7966 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
7967 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
7968 acceptable long-term-support release.
7970 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
7971 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
7972 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
7973 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
7974 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
7975 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7977 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
7978 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
7979 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
7980 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
7981 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7983 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7984 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
7986 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
7987 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
7989 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
7990 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
7991 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
7993 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
7994 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
7995 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
7998 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7999 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
8000 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8002 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
8003 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
8004 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
8007 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8008 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8009 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8012 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
8013 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8014 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
8015 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8017 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8018 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8019 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8020 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8023 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
8024 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
8025 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
8026 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8028 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8029 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
8030 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
8031 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
8032 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
8033 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
8034 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8036 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8037 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
8038 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
8041 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8042 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8045 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8046 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8047 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8048 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8049 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8051 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
8052 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8053 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8054 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8055 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8056 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8058 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
8059 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8060 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8061 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8062 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8064 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8065 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
8066 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8068 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
8069 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8070 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8071 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8072 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8074 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
8075 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
8076 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
8079 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
8080 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8081 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
8082 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
8083 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
8085 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8086 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8087 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8089 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8090 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8091 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8092 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8093 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8095 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8096 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8097 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8098 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8099 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8102 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8103 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8104 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8105 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8107 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8108 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8109 Implements ticket 27252.
8110 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8111 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8112 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8113 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8114 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8115 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8116 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8118 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8119 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8120 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8121 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8123 o Minor features (geoip):
8124 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8125 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
8127 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8128 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8129 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8130 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8131 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8133 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8134 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8135 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8136 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8137 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8140 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8141 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8142 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8145 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8146 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8147 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8148 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8149 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8151 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8152 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8153 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8155 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8156 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8157 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8159 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8160 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8161 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8162 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8164 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8165 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8166 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8168 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8169 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8170 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8173 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8174 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8175 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8177 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8178 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8179 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8182 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8183 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8184 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8185 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8186 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8188 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8189 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8190 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8191 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8192 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8193 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8195 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8196 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8197 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8200 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8201 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8202 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8203 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8204 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8205 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8206 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8207 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8209 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8210 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8211 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8212 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8214 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8215 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8216 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8217 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8218 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8220 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8221 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8222 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8223 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8224 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8225 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8227 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8228 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8229 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8230 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8231 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8232 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8234 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8235 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8236 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8237 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8240 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8241 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8242 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8243 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8244 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8247 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
8248 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
8249 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
8250 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
8251 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
8252 getting closer and closer to stability.
8254 o Major features (onion services):
8255 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8256 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8257 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8258 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8259 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8261 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8262 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8263 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8265 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
8266 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
8267 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
8268 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8270 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
8271 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8272 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8273 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8274 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8276 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8277 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8278 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8279 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8280 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8283 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8284 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8285 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8286 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8287 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8288 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8291 o Minor features (geoip):
8292 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8293 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
8295 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8296 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8297 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8301 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
8302 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
8303 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
8304 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
8305 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
8308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
8309 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
8312 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
8313 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8314 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8315 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8316 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8319 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8320 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8321 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8322 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8323 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8326 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8327 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8328 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8330 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
8331 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
8332 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
8334 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
8335 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
8336 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8338 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8339 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8340 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8342 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8343 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8344 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8345 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8346 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8347 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8348 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8349 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8350 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8352 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8353 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8354 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8357 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8358 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8359 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8360 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8362 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
8363 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8365 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8366 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
8367 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
8368 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
8369 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
8370 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
8371 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
8372 Closes ticket 27814.
8373 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
8374 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
8375 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
8376 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
8377 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
8378 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
8381 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
8382 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
8383 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
8384 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
8387 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
8388 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
8389 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
8390 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
8392 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8393 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8394 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8395 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8396 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8397 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8399 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
8400 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
8401 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
8402 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
8403 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
8406 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8407 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8408 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8409 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8410 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8412 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8413 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8414 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8415 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8416 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8419 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8420 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8421 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8422 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8423 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8425 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8426 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
8427 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
8428 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
8430 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
8431 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
8432 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
8435 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8436 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8437 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8438 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8440 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8441 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8442 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8443 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8445 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8446 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
8447 Closes ticket 27799.
8450 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
8451 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
8452 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
8453 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
8454 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
8456 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8457 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8458 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8459 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8460 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8461 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8463 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8464 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8465 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8466 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8467 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8468 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8469 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8470 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8472 o Major features (bootstrap):
8473 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8474 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8475 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8476 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8478 o Major features (new code layout):
8479 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8480 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8481 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8482 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8483 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8484 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8485 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8487 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8488 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8489 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8491 o Major features (onion services v3):
8492 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8493 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8494 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8495 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8496 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8497 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8498 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8499 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8500 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8501 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8502 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8503 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8504 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8506 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8507 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8508 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8509 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8510 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8511 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8512 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8514 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8515 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8516 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8517 (if present), and restart Tor.
8519 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8520 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8521 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8522 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8525 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8526 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8527 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8528 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8530 o Minor features (admin tools):
8531 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8532 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8535 o Minor features (build):
8536 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8537 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8538 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8539 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8541 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8542 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8543 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8544 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8545 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8547 o Minor features (code layout):
8548 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8549 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8550 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8551 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8554 o Minor features (compilation):
8555 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8556 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8557 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8558 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8561 o Minor features (config):
8562 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8565 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8566 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8567 Implements ticket 27252.
8568 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8569 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8570 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8571 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8572 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8573 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8574 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8575 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8576 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8578 o Minor features (controller):
8579 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8580 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8581 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8582 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8583 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8584 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8585 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8586 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8588 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8589 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8590 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8591 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8593 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8594 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8595 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8596 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8598 o Minor features (development):
8599 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8600 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8602 o Minor features (directory authority):
8603 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8604 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8605 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8606 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8608 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8609 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8612 o Minor features (embedding API):
8613 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8614 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8615 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8616 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8617 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8618 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8621 o Minor features (geoip):
8622 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8623 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
8625 o Minor features (memory management):
8626 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8627 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8630 o Minor features (memory usage):
8631 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8632 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8633 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8635 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8636 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8637 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8639 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8640 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8641 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8642 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8644 o Minor features (testing):
8645 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8646 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8648 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8649 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8650 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8652 o Minor features (UI):
8653 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8654 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8655 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8656 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8657 Closes ticket 26703.
8659 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8660 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8661 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8662 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8664 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8665 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8666 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8667 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8668 - Use time_t for all values in
8669 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8670 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8671 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8673 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8674 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8675 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8676 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8677 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8680 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
8681 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8682 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8683 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8684 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8685 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8687 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8688 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8689 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8690 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8692 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8693 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8694 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8695 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8696 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8698 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8699 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8700 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8702 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8703 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8704 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8705 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8706 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8709 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8710 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8711 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8713 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8714 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8715 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8718 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8719 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8720 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8721 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8722 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8724 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8725 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8726 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8727 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8728 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8729 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8730 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8732 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8733 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8734 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8735 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8736 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8738 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8739 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8740 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8742 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8743 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8744 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8745 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8748 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8749 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8750 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8753 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8754 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8755 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8756 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8757 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8759 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8760 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8761 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8762 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8764 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8765 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8766 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8767 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8769 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
8770 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8771 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8772 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8773 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8774 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8775 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8776 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8777 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8778 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8780 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
8781 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8782 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8783 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8784 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8785 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8786 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8787 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8789 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8790 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8791 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8792 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8793 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8794 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8795 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8796 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8797 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8798 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8799 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8800 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8801 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8803 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8804 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
8805 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
8806 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
8807 directory within the top-level src directory.
8808 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
8809 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
8810 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
8811 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
8812 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
8813 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
8814 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
8815 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
8816 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
8817 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
8818 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
8819 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
8820 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
8821 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
8822 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
8823 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
8824 Closes ticket 21349.
8825 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
8826 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
8827 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
8828 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
8829 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
8830 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
8831 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
8833 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
8834 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
8835 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
8838 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
8839 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
8840 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
8841 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
8842 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
8845 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
8846 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
8847 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
8848 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
8849 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
8850 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
8851 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
8852 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
8853 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
8854 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
8855 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
8856 Closes ticket 26367.
8859 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
8860 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
8862 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8863 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8864 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8865 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8867 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8868 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8870 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8871 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8872 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8873 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8875 o Minor features (geoip):
8876 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8877 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8879 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8880 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8881 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8882 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8884 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8885 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
8886 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
8887 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
8888 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8889 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
8890 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
8891 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
8894 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8895 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
8896 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
8897 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8899 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8900 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
8901 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
8902 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
8904 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8905 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
8906 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
8907 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8909 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8910 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
8911 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8912 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
8913 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
8915 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8916 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
8917 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
8920 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8921 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
8922 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
8923 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
8924 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
8926 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8927 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
8928 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
8931 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8932 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
8933 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
8934 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8936 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8937 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
8938 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8940 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8941 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
8942 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
8945 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8946 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
8947 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
8948 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
8949 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
8951 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8952 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
8953 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
8956 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
8957 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8959 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
8960 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
8961 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
8962 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
8964 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8965 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8967 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8968 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8969 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
8970 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
8972 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8973 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
8976 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8977 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
8978 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
8979 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
8981 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8982 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
8983 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
8984 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
8986 o Minor features (geoip):
8987 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8988 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
8990 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
8991 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
8992 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
8993 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8994 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
8995 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
8996 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
8998 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
8999 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9000 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9001 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9002 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9003 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9004 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9005 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9008 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9009 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9010 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9011 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9013 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9014 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9015 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9016 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9018 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9019 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9020 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9021 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9022 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9024 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9025 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9026 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9027 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9028 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9030 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9031 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9032 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9035 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9036 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9037 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9038 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9039 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9041 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9042 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9043 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9046 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9047 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9048 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9051 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9052 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9053 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9056 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9057 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9059 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9060 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9061 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9062 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9064 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9065 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9066 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9067 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9069 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9070 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9071 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9073 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9074 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9075 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9076 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9077 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9078 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9079 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9082 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9083 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9084 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9085 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9086 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9088 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9089 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9090 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9091 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9092 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9094 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9095 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9096 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9099 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9100 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9102 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9103 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9104 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9105 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9107 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9108 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9109 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9110 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9112 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9113 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9114 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9116 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9117 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9118 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9119 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9121 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9122 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9125 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9126 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9127 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9128 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9130 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9131 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9132 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9133 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9135 o Minor features (geoip):
9136 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9137 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9140 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9141 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9142 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9143 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9144 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9145 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9147 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9148 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9149 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9150 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9151 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9152 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9153 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9154 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9157 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9158 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9159 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9160 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9162 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9163 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9164 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9165 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9167 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9168 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9169 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9170 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9171 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9173 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9174 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9175 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9176 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9177 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9179 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9180 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9181 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9184 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9185 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9186 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9187 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9189 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9190 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9191 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9192 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9193 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9195 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9196 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9197 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9200 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9201 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9202 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9205 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9206 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9207 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9210 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9211 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9212 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9213 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9215 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9216 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9217 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9220 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9221 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9223 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9224 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9225 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9226 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9227 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9228 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9229 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9231 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9232 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9233 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9234 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9235 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9237 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9238 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9239 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9240 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9242 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9243 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9244 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9246 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9247 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9248 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9249 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9250 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9251 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9252 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9255 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9256 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9257 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9258 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9259 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9261 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9262 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9263 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9264 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9265 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9267 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9268 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9269 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9272 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9273 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9274 compilation and portability fixes.
9276 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9277 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9278 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9279 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9280 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9281 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9282 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9283 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9285 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
9286 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9288 o Minor features (compatibility):
9289 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9290 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9291 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9293 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9294 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9295 Implements ticket 27449.
9296 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9297 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9301 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9302 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9303 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9304 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9305 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9306 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9307 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9310 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9311 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
9312 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
9313 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
9314 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
9315 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9316 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9317 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9318 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9319 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9321 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9322 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9323 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9326 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
9327 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9328 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9329 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9330 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9331 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9332 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9335 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
9336 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
9337 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
9338 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
9339 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
9341 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9342 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9343 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9344 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9346 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9347 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9348 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9350 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9351 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9352 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9353 Implements ticket 27275.
9354 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9355 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9357 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9358 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9361 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9362 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9363 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9364 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9366 o Minor features (geoip):
9367 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9368 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9370 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9371 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9372 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9373 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9375 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9376 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
9377 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
9378 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
9379 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9380 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9381 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9382 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9384 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
9385 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9386 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9387 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9389 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9390 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9391 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9392 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9393 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9395 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9396 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9397 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9400 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9401 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9402 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9405 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
9406 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9408 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9409 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9410 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9411 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9412 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9413 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9414 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9416 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9417 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9418 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9419 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9420 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9422 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
9423 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
9424 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
9425 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
9426 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9428 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9429 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9430 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9431 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9432 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9434 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
9435 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9436 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9439 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
9440 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
9441 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
9442 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
9443 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
9445 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
9446 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
9447 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
9448 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
9449 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
9450 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9452 o Minor features (compilation):
9453 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9454 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9456 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9457 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9458 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9459 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9460 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9461 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9463 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9464 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9465 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9466 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9468 o Minor features (controller):
9469 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9470 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9471 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9473 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9474 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9475 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9478 o Minor features (geoip):
9479 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9480 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9482 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9483 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9486 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
9487 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9488 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9489 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9490 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9491 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9493 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9494 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
9495 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9496 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9497 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9498 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9500 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9501 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9502 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9505 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
9506 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9507 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9509 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9510 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9511 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9514 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
9515 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
9516 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9517 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9518 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9519 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9521 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
9522 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
9523 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
9524 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9526 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9527 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9528 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9530 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
9531 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
9532 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
9533 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
9534 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
9535 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
9537 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
9538 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9539 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9540 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9541 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9544 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
9545 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9546 bridge relays should upgrade.
9548 o Directory authority changes:
9549 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9550 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9551 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9554 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
9555 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9556 bridge relays should upgrade.
9558 o Directory authority changes:
9559 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9560 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9561 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9564 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
9565 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9566 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9569 o Directory authority changes:
9570 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9571 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9572 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9574 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9575 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9576 Closes ticket 26343.
9578 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9579 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9580 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9581 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9582 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9584 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9585 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
9586 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
9588 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9589 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9590 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9591 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9593 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9594 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
9595 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
9597 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9598 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9599 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9600 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9601 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9602 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9604 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9605 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9606 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9607 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9609 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9610 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9611 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9614 o Minor features (geoip):
9615 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9616 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9618 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9619 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9620 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9621 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9622 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9624 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9625 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9626 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9628 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9629 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9630 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9631 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9632 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9633 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9634 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9635 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9638 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9639 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9640 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9641 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9642 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9643 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9645 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9646 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
9647 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
9648 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
9649 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
9651 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9652 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9653 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9654 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9655 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9657 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9658 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9659 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9662 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9663 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9664 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9666 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9667 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9668 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9669 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9671 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9672 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
9673 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9674 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
9675 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
9676 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
9677 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9679 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9680 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9681 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9682 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9685 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9686 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
9687 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9689 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9690 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
9691 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9693 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9694 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
9695 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
9696 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
9699 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9700 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
9701 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
9702 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9704 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9705 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9706 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9708 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9709 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9710 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9713 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
9714 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
9715 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
9718 o Directory authority changes:
9719 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
9720 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
9721 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
9723 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
9724 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
9725 Closes ticket 26343.
9727 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9728 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
9729 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
9730 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
9731 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
9733 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9734 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
9735 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
9736 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
9738 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9739 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
9740 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
9741 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
9742 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
9743 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
9745 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9746 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9747 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9750 o Minor features (geoip):
9751 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9752 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9754 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9755 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
9756 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
9757 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
9758 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9760 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9761 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
9762 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9764 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9765 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9766 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9767 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9770 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9771 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
9772 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
9773 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
9774 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
9775 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
9777 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9778 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9779 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9780 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9781 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9783 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9784 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
9785 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
9788 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
9789 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
9790 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
9792 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
9793 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
9794 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
9795 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
9797 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9798 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9799 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9801 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
9802 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
9803 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
9806 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
9807 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
9808 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
9809 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
9810 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
9812 o Minor features (compilation):
9813 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9814 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9817 o Minor features (geoip):
9818 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9819 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9821 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9822 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9824 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9825 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9826 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9827 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9828 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9830 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9831 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
9832 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9833 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9834 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9835 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9837 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9838 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9839 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9842 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
9843 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9844 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9846 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
9847 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9848 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9849 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9850 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9851 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9852 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9853 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9857 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
9858 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
9859 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
9861 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9862 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9863 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9864 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9866 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9867 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9868 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9871 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9872 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9873 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9876 o Minor features (geoip):
9877 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9878 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
9880 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9881 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9882 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9883 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9885 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9886 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
9887 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
9888 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
9889 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
9892 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9893 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9894 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9895 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9896 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9898 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9899 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
9900 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
9901 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9903 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9904 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
9905 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
9907 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
9908 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9909 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9910 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9913 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
9914 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
9915 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
9916 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9918 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
9919 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
9920 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
9921 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
9922 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9923 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
9924 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
9925 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
9929 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
9930 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
9931 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
9933 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
9934 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
9935 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
9936 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9938 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
9939 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
9940 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
9943 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
9944 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9945 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9946 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9948 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
9949 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
9950 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
9951 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
9953 o Minor features (unit tests):
9954 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9955 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9956 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9959 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9960 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9961 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9962 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9963 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
9964 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
9965 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9966 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9967 Closes ticket 26245.
9969 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9970 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
9971 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
9972 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
9973 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
9974 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9976 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9977 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
9978 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
9979 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
9982 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9983 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
9984 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9985 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
9986 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
9987 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
9988 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
9989 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
9990 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9991 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
9992 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
9993 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
9994 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
9995 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9998 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
9999 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10000 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10002 o Directory authority changes:
10003 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10004 Closes ticket 26343.
10006 o Minor features (geoip):
10007 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10008 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10010 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10011 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10012 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10013 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10014 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10015 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10017 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10018 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10019 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10021 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10022 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10023 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10024 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10025 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10027 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10028 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10029 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10031 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10032 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10033 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10034 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10035 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10036 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10039 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
10040 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
10041 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
10043 o Directory authority changes:
10044 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10045 Closes ticket 26343.
10047 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
10048 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10049 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10050 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10051 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10053 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10054 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
10055 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
10056 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
10058 o Minor features (geoip):
10059 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10060 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10062 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
10063 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10064 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10065 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10066 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10067 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10069 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10070 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10071 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10072 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
10073 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10074 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
10075 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
10076 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10078 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10079 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
10080 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
10081 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
10084 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10085 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10086 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10087 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10088 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10090 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
10091 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10092 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10094 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10095 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
10096 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10098 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10099 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10100 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10101 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10105 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10106 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10107 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10109 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10110 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10111 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10112 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10113 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10114 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10116 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
10117 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
10119 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10120 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10121 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10122 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10123 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10125 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10126 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10127 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10128 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10129 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10131 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10132 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10133 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10134 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10136 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10137 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
10138 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
10139 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10141 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10142 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10143 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10145 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10146 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10147 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10150 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10151 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10152 Closes ticket 26006.
10154 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10155 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10156 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10157 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10158 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10159 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10161 o Minor features (geoip):
10162 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10163 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10165 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10166 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10167 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10170 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10171 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10172 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10173 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10174 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10176 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10177 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10178 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10179 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10180 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10183 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10184 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10185 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10187 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10188 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10189 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10190 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10191 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10192 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10193 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10195 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10196 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10197 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10199 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10200 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10201 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10204 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
10205 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
10206 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
10207 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
10208 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
10209 other small features and bugfixes.
10211 o New system requirements:
10212 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
10213 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
10214 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
10215 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
10217 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
10218 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
10219 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
10220 To disable the module, the configure option
10221 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
10222 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
10224 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
10225 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
10226 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
10227 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
10228 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
10229 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
10230 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
10231 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
10232 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
10233 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
10234 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
10236 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
10237 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
10238 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
10239 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
10240 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
10241 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
10242 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
10243 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
10244 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
10245 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
10246 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
10247 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
10248 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
10249 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
10250 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
10251 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
10252 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
10253 Tor's uptime (26009).
10255 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
10256 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10257 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10258 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10259 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10261 o Major bugfixes (crash):
10262 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10263 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10264 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10266 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10267 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
10268 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
10269 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10271 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
10272 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10273 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10275 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
10276 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
10277 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
10278 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
10279 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
10280 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
10281 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
10282 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
10283 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
10284 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
10285 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
10286 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
10287 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
10288 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10290 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
10291 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10292 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10295 o Minor features (accounting):
10296 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
10297 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
10298 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
10299 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
10301 o Minor features (code quality):
10302 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
10303 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
10304 Closes ticket 25024.
10306 o Minor features (compatibility):
10307 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
10308 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
10309 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
10310 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10311 Closes ticket 26006.
10313 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
10314 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
10315 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
10316 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
10317 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
10318 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
10320 o Minor features (configuration):
10321 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
10322 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
10323 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
10324 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
10325 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
10327 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10328 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10329 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10330 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10331 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10332 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10334 o Minor features (control port):
10335 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
10336 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
10337 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
10338 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10339 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
10340 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
10341 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
10342 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
10343 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
10344 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
10346 o Minor features (directory authority):
10347 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
10348 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
10349 Closes ticket 23909.
10351 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
10352 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
10353 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
10354 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
10356 o Minor features (entry guards):
10357 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
10358 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
10360 o Minor features (geoip):
10361 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10362 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10364 o Minor features (performance):
10365 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
10366 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
10367 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
10368 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
10370 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
10371 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
10373 o Minor features (testing):
10374 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
10375 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
10376 more deterministic.
10377 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
10378 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
10379 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
10380 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
10381 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
10382 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
10384 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
10385 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
10386 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
10387 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
10388 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10390 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
10391 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
10392 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
10393 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
10394 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
10395 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
10397 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10398 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
10399 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
10400 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
10402 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
10403 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10404 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10405 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10406 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10409 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10410 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10411 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10414 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
10415 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
10416 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10417 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
10418 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
10420 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
10421 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
10422 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
10423 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
10424 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10426 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10427 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
10428 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
10429 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
10430 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10432 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
10433 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
10434 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
10435 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
10436 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10438 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10439 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
10440 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10441 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
10442 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
10443 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
10446 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10447 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
10448 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
10449 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
10450 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
10453 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
10454 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
10455 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
10456 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
10457 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
10458 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
10459 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10461 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10462 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10463 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10465 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
10466 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10467 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10468 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10469 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10470 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10471 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10473 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
10474 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10475 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10476 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10477 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10478 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10480 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10481 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10482 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10485 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10486 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10487 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10488 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10490 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10491 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10492 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10493 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10494 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10495 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10496 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10498 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
10499 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10500 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10502 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10503 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10504 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10505 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10507 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10508 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10509 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10510 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10511 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10512 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10513 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10514 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10516 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10517 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10518 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10519 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10520 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10521 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10522 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10524 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10525 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10526 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10527 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10528 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10530 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10531 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10532 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10535 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10536 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10537 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10538 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10539 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10540 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10542 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10543 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10544 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10545 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10546 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10547 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10548 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10549 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10551 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10552 confusing we renamed some functions and
10553 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10554 router_should_check_reachability() and
10555 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10556 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10557 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10558 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10559 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10561 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10562 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10564 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10565 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10566 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10567 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10568 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10569 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10570 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10571 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10572 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10573 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10574 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10575 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10576 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10577 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10578 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10579 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10580 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10581 Closes ticket 25766.
10582 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10583 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10584 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10585 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10586 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10587 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10588 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10589 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10590 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10591 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10592 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10593 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10594 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10595 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10597 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10598 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10599 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10600 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10601 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10602 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10603 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10604 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10605 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10607 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10608 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10609 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10610 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10612 o Deprecated features:
10613 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10614 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10615 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10616 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10617 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10618 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10621 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
10622 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
10624 o Removed features:
10625 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10626 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10627 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10628 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10629 24378 and proposal 290.
10630 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10631 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10632 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10633 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10634 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10635 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10636 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10637 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10638 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10639 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10640 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10641 their local router. Closes 25409.
10642 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10643 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10644 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10645 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10646 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10647 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10648 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10649 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10650 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10651 Closes ticket 25268.
10654 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
10655 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
10656 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
10658 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
10659 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
10660 be nearly identical to this one.
10662 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
10663 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
10664 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
10665 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
10666 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
10667 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10669 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10670 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10671 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10672 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10673 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10674 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10675 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10677 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
10678 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10679 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10681 o Minor features (config options):
10682 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10683 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10684 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10687 o Minor features (geoip):
10688 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10689 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
10691 o Minor bugfixes (client):
10692 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
10693 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
10694 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
10695 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
10696 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10698 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10699 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10700 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10701 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10703 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
10704 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
10705 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
10706 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10707 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
10708 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
10709 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10711 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10712 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10713 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10714 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10715 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10716 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
10717 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10719 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
10720 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
10721 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
10722 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
10723 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
10725 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10726 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
10727 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
10729 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
10730 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
10731 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
10733 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10734 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10735 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10737 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
10738 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
10739 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
10743 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
10744 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
10745 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
10746 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
10748 o New system requirements:
10749 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10750 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10752 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
10753 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10754 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10755 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10756 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10758 o Minor features (geoip):
10759 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10760 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
10762 o Minor features (log messages):
10763 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10764 information about memory usage from the different compression
10765 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10767 o Minor features (sandbox):
10768 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10769 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10770 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10772 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10773 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10774 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10775 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10777 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10778 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10779 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10781 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10782 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10783 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10784 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10786 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
10787 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10788 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10789 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10791 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10792 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10793 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10794 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10796 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10797 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
10798 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
10800 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10801 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
10802 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
10803 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
10804 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
10805 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10807 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10808 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10809 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10810 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10812 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
10813 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
10814 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
10815 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
10817 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
10818 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
10819 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
10820 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
10823 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
10824 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
10825 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
10826 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
10827 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10829 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10830 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
10831 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
10835 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
10837 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
10838 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
10841 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
10842 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
10845 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
10846 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
10848 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
10849 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
10851 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
10854 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
10855 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
10856 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
10858 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
10859 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
10860 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
10861 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
10864 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10865 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
10866 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
10867 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
10870 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10871 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
10872 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
10873 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
10874 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
10875 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
10876 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
10877 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
10878 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
10879 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
10880 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
10881 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
10882 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
10884 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10885 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
10886 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
10888 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10889 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
10890 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
10891 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
10892 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
10893 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
10894 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10896 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10897 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
10898 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10900 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
10901 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
10902 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
10903 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
10904 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
10905 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
10906 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10908 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10909 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
10910 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
10911 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
10913 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
10914 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
10915 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
10916 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
10918 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10919 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
10920 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
10921 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
10922 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
10923 Closes ticket 24978.
10925 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10926 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
10927 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
10928 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
10929 information. Closes ticket 24801.
10930 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
10931 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
10932 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
10933 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
10935 o Minor features (geoip):
10936 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10939 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10940 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
10941 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
10942 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
10943 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
10945 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
10946 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
10947 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
10948 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
10949 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
10951 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
10952 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
10953 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
10954 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
10955 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
10958 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10959 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
10960 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
10961 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
10962 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
10963 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
10964 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
10965 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
10966 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
10967 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
10968 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
10971 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
10972 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
10973 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10975 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10976 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
10977 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
10980 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
10981 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
10982 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
10983 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
10984 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
10985 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
10986 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
10988 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
10989 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
10990 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10991 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
10992 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
10993 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
10994 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
10995 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
10996 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
10999 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11000 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11001 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11002 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11003 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11004 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11006 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11007 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11008 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11009 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11011 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11012 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11013 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11014 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11015 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11018 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11019 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11020 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11021 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11022 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11023 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11025 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11026 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11027 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11028 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11029 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11030 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11031 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11032 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11033 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11034 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11035 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11036 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11038 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11039 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11040 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11041 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11043 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11044 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11045 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11046 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11048 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11049 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11050 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11051 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11054 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11055 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11056 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11057 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11058 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11060 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11061 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11063 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11064 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11066 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11067 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11068 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11071 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11072 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11073 later Tor releases.
11075 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11076 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11078 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11079 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11081 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11084 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11085 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11086 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11088 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11089 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11090 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11091 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11094 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11095 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11096 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11097 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11098 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11099 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11100 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11101 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11102 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11103 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11104 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11105 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11106 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11108 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11109 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11110 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11111 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11112 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11113 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11114 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11115 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11116 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11118 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11119 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11120 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11121 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11122 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11123 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11124 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11126 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11127 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11128 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11129 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11131 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11132 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11133 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11134 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11135 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11136 Closes ticket 24978.
11138 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11139 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11140 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11141 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11143 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11144 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11145 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11146 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11147 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11148 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11149 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11150 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11151 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11153 o Minor features (geoip):
11154 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11157 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11158 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11159 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11161 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11162 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11163 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11164 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11165 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11167 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11168 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11169 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11170 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11171 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11173 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11174 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11175 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11176 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11177 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11180 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11181 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11182 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11184 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11185 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11186 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11189 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11190 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11191 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11192 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11193 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11194 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11195 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11197 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11198 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11199 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11200 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11201 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11204 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11205 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11206 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11207 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11208 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11209 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11211 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11212 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11213 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11214 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11216 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11217 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11218 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11219 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11220 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11221 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11222 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11223 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11224 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11225 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11226 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11227 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11229 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11230 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11231 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11232 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11235 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11236 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11237 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11238 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11239 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11241 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11242 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11244 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11245 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11248 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11249 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11250 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11253 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11254 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11256 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11257 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11258 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11259 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11260 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11261 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11264 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11265 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11267 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11270 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11271 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11272 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11273 the DoS mitigations.)
11275 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11276 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11277 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11278 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11281 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11282 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11283 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11284 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11286 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11287 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11288 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11289 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11290 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11291 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11292 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11293 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11294 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11295 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11296 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11297 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11298 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11300 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11301 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11302 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11303 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11304 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11305 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11306 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11307 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11308 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11309 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11310 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11312 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11313 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11314 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11316 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11317 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11318 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11319 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11320 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11321 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11322 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11324 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11325 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11326 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11327 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11329 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11330 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11331 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11332 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11334 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11335 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11336 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11337 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11338 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11339 Closes ticket 24978.
11341 o Minor features (geoip):
11342 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11345 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11346 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11347 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11350 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11351 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11352 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11353 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11354 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11356 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11357 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11358 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11359 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11360 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11361 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11362 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11364 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11365 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11366 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11367 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11368 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11370 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11371 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11372 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11373 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11375 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11376 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11377 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11378 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11379 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11381 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11382 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11383 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11384 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11386 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11387 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11388 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11389 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11391 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11392 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11393 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11394 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11396 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11397 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11399 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11400 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11402 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11403 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11404 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11406 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11407 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11408 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11409 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11410 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11412 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11413 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11414 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11416 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11417 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11418 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11422 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
11423 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
11424 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11425 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11427 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
11428 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
11429 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
11430 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
11431 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
11432 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11434 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11437 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
11438 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11439 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11440 the DoS mitigations.)
11442 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
11443 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11444 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11445 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11448 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11449 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11450 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11451 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11452 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11453 Closes ticket 24978.
11455 o Minor features (logging):
11456 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
11457 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
11459 o Minor features (testing):
11460 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
11463 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
11464 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11465 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11466 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11467 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11468 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11469 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11471 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
11472 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
11473 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
11474 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11475 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
11476 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
11479 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11480 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11481 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
11482 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
11484 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11485 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11486 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11487 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11488 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11491 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
11492 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11494 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11495 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11497 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
11498 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
11499 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11500 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
11502 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11503 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11504 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11507 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
11508 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
11509 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
11510 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
11511 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
11512 it to older supported release series.
11514 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11515 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11516 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11517 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11518 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11519 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11520 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11521 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11522 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11523 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11524 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11525 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11526 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11528 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
11529 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
11530 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
11531 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
11532 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
11533 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
11534 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
11535 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11537 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
11538 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11539 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11541 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
11542 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11543 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11544 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11546 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11547 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11548 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11549 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11551 o Minor features (directory authority):
11552 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
11553 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
11555 o Minor features (geoip):
11556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11559 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
11560 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11561 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
11564 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11565 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11566 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11567 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11568 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11570 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11571 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11572 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11573 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11574 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11576 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
11577 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11578 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11579 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11581 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
11582 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
11583 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
11584 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
11585 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11587 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11588 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
11589 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
11590 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11592 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11593 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11594 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11595 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11596 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11597 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11598 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11600 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11601 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11602 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11603 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11604 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11605 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11606 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11607 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11609 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11610 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11611 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11612 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11613 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11614 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11615 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11617 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11618 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11619 would call the Rust implementation of
11620 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11621 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11622 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11623 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11624 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11626 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
11627 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11628 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
11631 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11632 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11633 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11634 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11635 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11636 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11638 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11639 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11640 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11641 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11642 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11644 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11645 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11647 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11648 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11649 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11652 o Documentation (man page):
11653 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11654 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11658 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
11659 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
11660 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
11661 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
11662 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
11663 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
11666 o Major features (embedding):
11667 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
11668 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
11669 Closes ticket 23684.
11670 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
11671 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
11672 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
11673 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
11674 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
11675 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
11677 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
11678 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
11679 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
11680 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
11681 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
11682 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
11683 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
11684 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
11685 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
11686 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
11687 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
11690 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
11691 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
11692 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
11693 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
11694 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
11695 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
11696 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
11698 o Major features (onion services):
11699 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
11700 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
11701 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
11702 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
11703 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
11706 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
11707 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
11708 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
11709 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
11710 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
11711 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
11712 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
11713 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
11715 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
11716 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
11717 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
11718 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
11719 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
11721 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
11722 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
11723 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
11724 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
11725 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
11726 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
11727 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
11729 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11730 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11731 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11732 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11733 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11734 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11735 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11736 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11737 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11738 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11739 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11741 o Major bugfixes (relays):
11742 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11743 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11744 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11745 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11746 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11747 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11749 o Minor feature (IPv6):
11750 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
11751 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
11752 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
11753 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
11754 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
11755 Implements ticket 23827.
11757 o Minor features (cleanup):
11758 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
11759 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
11761 o Minor features (defensive programming):
11762 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
11763 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
11764 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
11765 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
11766 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
11767 once. Part of ticket 24337.
11768 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
11769 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
11770 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
11772 o Minor features (embedding):
11773 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
11774 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
11775 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
11776 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
11777 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
11778 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
11779 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
11780 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
11781 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
11782 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
11783 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
11784 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
11785 Closes ticket 23848.
11786 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
11787 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
11788 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
11790 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11791 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
11792 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
11793 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
11794 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
11795 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
11796 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
11797 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
11800 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
11801 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
11802 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
11803 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
11804 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
11805 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
11806 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
11808 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
11809 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
11810 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
11811 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
11812 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
11813 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
11814 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
11815 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
11816 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
11817 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
11818 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
11819 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
11821 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
11822 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
11823 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
11825 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
11826 Implements ticket 24791.
11828 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
11829 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
11830 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
11831 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
11832 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
11833 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
11835 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11836 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
11837 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
11840 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
11841 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
11842 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
11843 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
11844 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
11846 o Minor features (log messages):
11847 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
11848 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
11849 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
11850 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
11852 o Minor features (logging, android):
11853 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
11856 o Minor features (performance):
11857 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
11858 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
11859 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
11860 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
11862 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
11863 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11864 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
11865 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
11866 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11867 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
11868 Implements ticket 24374.
11870 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
11871 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
11872 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
11873 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
11874 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
11876 o Minor features (performance, windows):
11877 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
11878 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
11879 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
11882 o Major features (relay):
11883 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
11884 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
11885 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
11886 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
11887 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
11889 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
11890 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
11891 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
11892 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
11893 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
11894 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
11895 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
11896 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
11897 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
11899 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
11900 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11901 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11902 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11904 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
11905 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
11906 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
11907 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
11908 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11909 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11910 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11911 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
11912 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
11913 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11914 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
11915 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
11918 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11919 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11920 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11921 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11924 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11925 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11926 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11929 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11930 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11931 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11933 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11934 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11935 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11936 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11937 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11939 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11940 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11941 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11942 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11944 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11945 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11946 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11947 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11948 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11949 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11951 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11952 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11953 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11954 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11956 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11957 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11958 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11959 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11960 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11961 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11964 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11965 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11966 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11967 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11969 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
11970 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11971 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11972 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11974 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11975 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11976 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11977 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11978 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11979 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11980 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11981 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11982 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11983 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11984 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11985 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11987 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11988 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11989 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11990 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11991 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11993 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11994 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11996 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11997 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11998 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11999 "aruna1234" and teor.
12000 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
12001 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
12002 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
12003 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
12005 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
12006 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
12007 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
12008 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
12009 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
12010 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
12011 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
12012 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
12013 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
12014 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
12016 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
12017 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
12020 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
12021 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
12023 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
12024 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
12025 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
12026 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
12027 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12028 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12031 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
12032 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
12033 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
12034 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
12035 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
12037 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
12038 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
12039 adding very little except for unit test.
12041 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
12042 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
12043 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
12044 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
12046 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
12047 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
12048 const. Implements ticket 24489.
12051 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
12052 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
12054 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
12055 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
12056 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
12057 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
12058 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
12059 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
12061 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12062 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12063 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12064 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12065 with the 0.2.9 series.
12067 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
12068 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12070 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12071 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12072 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12073 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12074 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12075 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12076 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12077 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12078 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12080 o Minor features (geoip):
12081 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12084 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12085 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12086 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12087 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12088 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12091 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12092 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
12093 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12095 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
12096 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12097 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12098 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12102 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
12103 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
12104 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
12105 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
12106 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
12107 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
12108 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
12110 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
12111 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
12112 will be nearly identical to this.
12114 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
12115 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
12116 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
12117 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
12118 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
12119 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
12120 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12122 o Minor features (geoip):
12123 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12126 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
12127 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
12128 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
12129 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12131 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12132 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12133 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12134 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12135 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12138 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
12139 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
12140 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
12141 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
12142 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
12143 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12146 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
12147 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12148 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12150 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
12151 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
12152 be nearly identical to this.
12154 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
12155 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
12156 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
12157 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
12158 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
12159 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
12160 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12162 o Minor features (logging):
12163 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12166 o Minor features (portability):
12167 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12168 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12171 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12172 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12173 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12174 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12175 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12176 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12177 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12178 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12179 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12180 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12181 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12182 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12183 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12185 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12186 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12187 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12189 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
12190 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12191 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12192 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12193 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12194 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12195 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12198 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12199 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
12200 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
12201 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
12202 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
12203 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
12204 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12206 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
12207 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
12208 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
12209 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
12210 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
12211 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
12212 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
12213 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12214 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
12215 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
12216 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12219 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
12220 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
12221 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
12222 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
12225 o Major bugfixes (security):
12226 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12227 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12228 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12229 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12230 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12231 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12232 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12233 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12234 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12235 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12237 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12238 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12239 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12240 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12241 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12242 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12243 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12246 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
12247 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12248 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12249 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12250 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12252 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
12253 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12254 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12255 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12256 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12257 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12258 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12259 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12260 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12262 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
12263 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12264 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12265 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12267 o Minor features (directory authority):
12268 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12271 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12272 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12273 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12274 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12277 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12278 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12279 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12280 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12282 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12283 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12284 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12285 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12286 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12287 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12288 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12289 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12290 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12291 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12292 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12294 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12295 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12296 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12297 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12298 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12299 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12300 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12303 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12304 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12305 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12306 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12307 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12309 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12310 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12311 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12312 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12313 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12314 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12315 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12316 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12317 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12319 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12320 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12321 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12322 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12323 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12324 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12327 o Minor features (bridge):
12328 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12329 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12330 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12331 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12334 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12335 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12338 o Minor features (geoip):
12339 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12342 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12343 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12344 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12345 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12346 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12348 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12349 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12350 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12352 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12353 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12354 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12355 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12356 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12357 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12359 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12360 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12361 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12364 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12365 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12366 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12367 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12368 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12371 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12372 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12373 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12374 to another of the releases coming out today.
12376 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12377 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12378 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12380 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12381 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12382 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12383 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12384 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12385 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12386 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12387 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12388 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12389 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12390 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12392 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12393 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12394 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12395 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12396 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12397 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12398 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12401 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12402 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12403 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12404 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12405 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12407 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12408 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12409 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12410 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12411 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12412 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12413 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12414 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12415 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12417 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12418 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12419 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12420 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12421 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12422 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12425 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12426 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12427 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12428 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12429 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12430 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12432 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12433 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12434 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12435 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12436 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12439 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12440 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12443 o Minor features (geoip):
12444 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12447 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12448 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12449 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12450 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12451 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12453 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12454 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12455 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12457 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12458 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12459 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12460 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12461 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12462 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12464 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12465 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12466 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12467 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12468 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12470 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12471 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12472 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12475 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12476 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12477 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12478 to another of the releases coming out today.
12480 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12481 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12482 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12483 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12484 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12485 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12488 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12489 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12490 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12491 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12492 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12493 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12494 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12495 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12496 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12497 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12498 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12500 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12501 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12502 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12503 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12504 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12505 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12506 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12509 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12510 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12511 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12512 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12513 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12515 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12516 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12517 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12518 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12519 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12520 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12522 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12523 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12524 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12525 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12526 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12529 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12530 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12533 o Minor features (geoip):
12534 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12537 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12538 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12539 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12540 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12541 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12542 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12544 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12545 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12546 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12547 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12548 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12550 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12551 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12552 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12554 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12555 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12556 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12557 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12558 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12559 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12561 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12562 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12563 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12564 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12565 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12567 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12568 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12569 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12572 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12573 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12574 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12575 to another of the releases coming out today.
12577 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12578 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12579 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12581 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12582 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12583 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12584 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12585 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12586 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12587 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12588 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12589 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12590 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12591 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12592 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12593 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12594 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12595 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12598 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12599 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12600 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12601 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12602 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12604 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12605 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12606 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12607 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12608 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12611 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12612 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12613 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12614 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12615 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12618 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12619 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12622 o Minor features (geoip):
12623 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12626 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12627 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12628 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12631 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12632 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12633 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12634 to another of the releases coming out today.
12636 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12637 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12638 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12640 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12641 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12642 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12643 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12644 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12645 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12646 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12647 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12648 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12649 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12650 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12651 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12652 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12653 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12654 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12657 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12658 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12659 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12660 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12661 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12662 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12664 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12665 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12666 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12667 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12668 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12671 o Minor features (geoip):
12672 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12676 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
12677 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
12678 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
12679 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
12680 since the 0.3.0.x series.
12682 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
12683 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
12686 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12687 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12688 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12689 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12690 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12691 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12692 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12693 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12694 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12695 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12696 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12699 o Minor features (directory authority):
12700 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12701 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12702 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12703 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12705 o Minor features (geoip):
12706 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12709 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12710 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12711 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12713 o Minor features (logging):
12714 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12715 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12717 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12718 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12720 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12721 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12722 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12723 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12724 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12725 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
12726 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
12727 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12729 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12730 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12731 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12734 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12735 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12736 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12737 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12739 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12740 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12741 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12742 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12743 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12744 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12745 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12746 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12747 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12750 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12751 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
12752 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12753 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12754 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12755 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12756 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12758 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12759 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12760 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12761 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12762 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12763 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12765 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12766 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12767 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12768 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12769 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12770 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12771 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12773 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
12774 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
12775 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12777 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
12778 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
12779 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
12780 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12781 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12782 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12783 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12784 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12787 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12788 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12789 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12792 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
12793 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
12794 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
12795 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
12798 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
12799 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12800 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12801 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12802 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12803 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12806 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
12807 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
12808 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
12809 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
12810 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12812 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
12813 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
12814 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
12815 Closes ticket 23753.
12817 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
12818 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12819 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12820 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12821 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12823 o Minor features (testing):
12824 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12825 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12827 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12828 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12829 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12830 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12831 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12833 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
12834 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
12835 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
12836 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
12837 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
12840 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
12841 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
12842 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
12843 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
12844 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12846 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
12847 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
12848 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
12849 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12851 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
12852 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
12853 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
12855 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
12856 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12857 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
12859 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12860 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
12861 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
12862 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12863 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
12864 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12866 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12867 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12868 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12869 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12870 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12871 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12872 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12873 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12874 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12875 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12876 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12877 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12879 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12880 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12881 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12882 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12883 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12885 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12886 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12887 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12888 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12889 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12890 Closes ticket 24109.
12893 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
12894 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
12895 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
12896 directory authority, Bastet.
12898 o Directory authority changes:
12899 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12900 Closes ticket 23910.
12901 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12902 Closes ticket 23592.
12904 o Minor features (bridge):
12905 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
12906 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
12907 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12908 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12909 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12910 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12911 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12913 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
12914 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12915 Resolves ticket 23670.
12917 o Minor features (geoip):
12918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12921 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12922 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12923 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12924 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12926 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12927 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12928 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12930 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12931 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12932 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12933 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12934 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12935 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12937 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
12938 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12939 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12940 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
12941 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
12942 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12944 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
12945 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
12946 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
12947 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
12949 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
12950 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
12951 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12953 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
12954 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
12955 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12956 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12957 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12959 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12960 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12961 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12963 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12964 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
12965 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
12968 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12969 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
12970 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12971 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12972 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12973 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
12974 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
12975 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
12977 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
12978 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
12979 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
12980 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
12981 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
12984 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
12985 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
12986 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
12987 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
12988 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
12992 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12993 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12994 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12996 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12997 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12998 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13000 o Directory authority changes:
13001 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13002 Closes ticket 23910.
13003 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13004 Closes ticket 23592.
13006 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13007 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13008 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13009 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13010 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13012 o Minor features (geoip):
13013 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13016 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13017 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13018 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13019 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13020 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13021 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13022 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13023 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13024 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13026 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13027 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13028 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13029 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13030 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13031 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13032 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13033 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13034 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13037 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13038 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13039 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13040 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13042 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13043 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13044 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13046 o Directory authority changes:
13047 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13048 Closes ticket 23910.
13049 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13050 Closes ticket 23592.
13052 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13053 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13054 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13055 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13057 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13058 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13059 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13060 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13061 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13063 o Minor features (geoip):
13064 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13068 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13069 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13070 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13071 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13073 o Directory authority changes:
13074 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13075 Closes ticket 23910.
13076 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13077 Closes ticket 23592.
13079 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13080 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13081 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13082 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13084 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13085 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13086 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13087 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13088 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13090 o Minor features (geoip):
13091 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13094 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13095 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13096 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13097 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13098 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13099 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13100 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13101 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13104 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13105 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13106 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13108 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13109 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13110 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13111 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13112 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13113 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13114 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13117 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13118 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13119 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13120 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13122 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13123 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13124 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13126 o Directory authority changes:
13127 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13128 Closes ticket 23910.
13129 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13130 Closes ticket 23592.
13132 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13133 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13134 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13135 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13137 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13138 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13139 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13140 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13141 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13143 o Minor features (geoip):
13144 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13147 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13148 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13149 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13150 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13151 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13152 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13153 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13154 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13157 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13158 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13159 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13160 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13162 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13163 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13164 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13166 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13167 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13168 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13169 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13170 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13171 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13172 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13175 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13176 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13177 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13178 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13179 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13181 o Directory authority changes:
13182 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13183 Closes ticket 23910.
13184 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13185 Closes ticket 23592.
13187 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13188 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13189 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13190 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13192 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13193 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13194 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13195 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13196 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13198 o Minor features (geoip):
13199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13202 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13203 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13204 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13205 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13207 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13208 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13209 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13212 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13213 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13214 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13216 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13217 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13218 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13219 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13221 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13222 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13223 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13225 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13226 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13227 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13231 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
13232 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
13233 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
13234 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
13235 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
13236 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
13238 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
13239 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
13240 include better testing and logging.
13242 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
13245 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
13246 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13247 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13248 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13250 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
13251 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
13252 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
13253 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
13254 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
13255 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
13256 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13258 o Minor features (build, compilation):
13259 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
13260 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
13261 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
13262 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
13263 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
13264 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
13265 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
13266 Closes ticket 23643.
13268 o Minor features (directory authorities):
13269 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13270 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13271 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13272 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13274 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
13275 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
13276 the circuit identifier(s).
13277 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
13278 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
13280 o Minor features (logging):
13281 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
13282 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
13283 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
13284 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
13285 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
13287 o Minor features (relay):
13288 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
13289 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
13290 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
13291 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
13293 o Minor features (robustness):
13294 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
13295 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
13297 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
13298 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
13299 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
13300 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
13301 related to ticket 23080.
13303 o Minor features (testing):
13304 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
13305 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
13308 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
13309 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
13310 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
13312 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
13313 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
13316 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
13317 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13318 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13319 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13320 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
13321 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
13322 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
13323 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
13324 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13326 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13327 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13328 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13331 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
13332 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
13333 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
13334 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13336 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
13337 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
13338 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
13339 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
13340 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13341 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
13342 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
13343 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
13346 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
13347 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13348 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13349 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13351 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
13352 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13353 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13354 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13355 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13356 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13358 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
13359 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
13360 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
13361 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13362 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
13363 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
13364 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13365 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
13366 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13367 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
13368 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
13370 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
13371 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
13372 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
13373 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13374 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
13375 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13377 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13378 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
13379 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
13381 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13382 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13384 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
13385 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
13386 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13388 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13389 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
13390 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
13393 o Deprecated features:
13394 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
13395 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
13396 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
13399 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
13400 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13401 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
13402 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
13403 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
13404 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
13405 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
13406 Closes ticket 18736.
13409 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
13410 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
13411 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
13412 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
13413 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
13414 features and bugfixes here.
13416 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
13418 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
13419 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
13420 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
13421 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
13422 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
13423 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
13424 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
13425 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
13426 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
13427 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
13428 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
13429 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
13431 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
13432 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
13433 more information, see the design paper at
13434 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
13435 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
13436 Closes ticket 12541.
13438 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
13439 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
13440 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
13441 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
13442 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
13443 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
13446 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
13447 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
13449 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
13452 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
13455 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
13457 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
13459 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
13461 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
13462 they are 56 characters long, as in
13463 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
13465 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
13466 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
13467 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
13468 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
13469 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
13472 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
13473 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
13474 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
13475 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
13476 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
13477 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
13480 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
13481 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
13482 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
13483 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
13485 o Minor features (bug detection):
13486 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
13487 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
13488 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
13490 o Minor features (client):
13491 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
13492 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
13493 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
13494 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
13495 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
13496 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
13497 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
13498 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
13499 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
13500 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
13502 o Minor features (command line):
13503 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
13504 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
13505 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
13507 o Minor features (control port):
13508 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
13509 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
13510 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
13512 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
13513 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
13515 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
13516 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
13517 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
13518 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
13519 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
13520 Closes ticket 23237.
13521 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
13522 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
13524 o Minor features (development support):
13525 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
13526 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
13527 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
13528 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
13529 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
13530 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
13532 o Minor features (ed25519):
13533 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
13534 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
13535 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
13537 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
13538 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
13539 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
13541 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
13542 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
13543 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
13544 another program, regardless of the settings of
13545 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
13546 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
13547 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
13549 o Minor features (logging):
13550 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
13551 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
13552 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
13554 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
13555 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
13557 o Minor features (portability):
13558 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
13559 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
13560 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
13561 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
13563 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13564 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
13565 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
13566 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
13567 results. Closes ticket 22731.
13569 o Minor features (startup, safety):
13570 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
13571 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
13574 o Minor features (static analysis):
13575 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
13576 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
13579 o Minor features (testing):
13580 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
13581 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
13582 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
13583 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
13584 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
13586 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
13587 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
13588 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
13589 Coverity as CID 1415728.
13591 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
13592 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
13593 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
13594 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
13595 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
13596 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
13597 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
13598 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13600 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13601 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
13602 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
13603 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
13604 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
13605 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
13606 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
13607 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13609 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13610 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13611 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13613 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
13614 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
13615 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
13616 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
13618 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
13619 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
13620 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
13621 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
13622 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
13623 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
13625 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
13626 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
13629 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
13630 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
13631 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
13632 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13634 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
13635 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
13636 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
13637 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
13638 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
13639 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
13640 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
13643 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
13644 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
13645 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
13646 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13648 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
13649 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
13650 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
13652 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13653 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
13654 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
13655 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
13656 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
13657 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
13659 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
13660 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
13661 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
13663 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
13664 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
13665 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
13667 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
13668 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
13669 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
13670 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
13672 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
13673 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
13674 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13676 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13677 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
13678 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
13679 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
13680 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13681 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13682 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13683 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13685 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
13686 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
13687 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
13688 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13689 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
13690 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
13691 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13693 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
13694 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
13695 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
13696 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13698 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13699 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
13700 function from the general code to handle channel state
13701 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
13702 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
13703 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
13704 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
13705 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
13706 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
13707 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
13708 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
13710 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
13711 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
13713 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
13714 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
13715 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
13716 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
13717 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13718 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
13719 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
13720 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
13721 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
13722 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
13723 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
13724 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
13726 o Deprecated features:
13727 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
13728 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
13729 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
13733 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
13734 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
13735 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
13736 Closes ticket 15645.
13737 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
13738 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
13739 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
13740 file. Closes ticket 21148.
13742 o Removed features:
13743 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
13744 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
13745 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
13746 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
13747 Closes ticket 21031.
13748 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
13749 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
13752 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13753 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13756 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13757 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13758 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13759 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13761 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13762 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13763 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13764 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13766 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13767 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13768 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13769 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13770 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13773 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13776 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13777 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13778 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13781 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13782 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13783 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13784 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13785 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13786 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13787 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13788 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13789 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13791 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13792 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13793 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13794 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13795 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13796 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13797 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13798 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13799 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13802 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13803 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13806 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13807 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13808 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13809 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13811 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13812 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13813 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13814 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13815 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13816 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13817 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13819 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13820 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13821 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13822 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13824 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13825 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13826 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13828 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13829 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13830 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13831 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13833 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13834 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13835 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13836 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13837 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13839 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13840 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13841 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13842 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13844 o Minor features (geoip):
13845 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13848 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13849 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13850 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13851 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13854 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13855 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13856 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13857 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13858 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13859 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13860 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13862 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13863 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13864 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13866 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13867 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13868 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13871 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13872 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13873 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13874 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13875 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13877 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13878 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13879 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13880 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13881 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13882 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13884 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13885 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13886 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13887 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13888 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13889 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13890 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13891 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13892 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13894 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13895 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13896 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13897 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13899 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13900 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13901 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13903 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13904 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13905 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13906 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13907 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13909 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13910 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13911 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13914 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13915 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13916 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13917 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13918 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13920 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13921 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13922 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13923 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13924 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13925 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13926 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13927 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13928 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13931 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13932 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13935 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13936 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13937 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13938 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13940 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13941 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13942 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13943 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13946 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13949 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13950 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13951 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13953 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13954 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13955 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13956 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13957 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13959 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13960 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13961 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13962 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13964 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13965 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13966 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13968 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13969 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13970 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13971 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13974 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13975 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13977 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13978 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13979 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13980 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13981 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13982 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13983 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13985 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13986 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13987 disabled. For more information, see
13988 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13990 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13991 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13992 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13993 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13994 with the 0.2.9 series.
13996 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
13997 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
13999 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
14000 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
14001 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
14002 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
14003 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
14005 o Minor features (defensive programming):
14006 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
14007 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
14008 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
14011 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14012 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
14013 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
14014 attempt for bug 23105.
14016 o Minor features (geoip):
14017 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14020 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14021 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
14022 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14024 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14025 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
14026 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14027 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
14028 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14030 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14031 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
14032 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
14033 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14035 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14036 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
14037 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
14041 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
14042 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
14043 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
14044 Windows directory caches.
14046 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
14047 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
14048 will be nearly identical to it.
14050 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
14051 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
14052 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
14053 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
14054 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
14055 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14057 o Minor features (directory authority):
14058 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
14059 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
14060 Closes ticket 22348.
14062 o Minor features (geoip):
14063 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14066 o Minor features (testing):
14067 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
14070 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14071 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
14072 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14074 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14075 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
14076 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
14077 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
14078 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
14079 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
14080 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
14081 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
14082 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
14083 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14085 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14086 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14087 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14089 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14090 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14091 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14092 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14094 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14095 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
14096 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
14097 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
14098 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14100 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
14101 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
14102 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
14103 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
14104 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
14105 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14107 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
14108 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
14109 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
14110 with the clang static analyzer.
14112 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14113 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14114 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14115 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
14116 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
14119 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
14120 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14121 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14122 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14123 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14124 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14125 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14128 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14129 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14130 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14131 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14133 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14134 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14135 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14136 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14137 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14138 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14139 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14140 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14141 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14143 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14144 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14145 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14146 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14148 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14149 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14150 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14151 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14152 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14154 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14155 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14158 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14159 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14160 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14161 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14163 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14164 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14165 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14166 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14167 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14168 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14169 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14170 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14173 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14174 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14175 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14178 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14179 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14180 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14181 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14182 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14183 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14185 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14186 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14187 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14188 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14190 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14191 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14192 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14194 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14195 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14196 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14199 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
14200 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
14201 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
14202 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
14203 next version will be a release candidate.
14205 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
14206 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
14207 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
14208 one of those versions should upgrade.
14210 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
14211 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14212 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14213 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14214 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14215 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14216 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14217 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14218 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14220 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
14221 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14222 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14223 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14224 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14226 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
14227 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
14228 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
14229 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
14230 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
14231 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14233 o Minor features (bridge authority):
14234 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
14235 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
14237 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
14238 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
14239 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
14240 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
14241 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
14244 o Minor features (geoip):
14245 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14248 o Minor features (relay, performance):
14249 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
14250 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
14251 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
14252 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
14253 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
14256 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
14257 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
14258 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
14259 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
14260 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
14262 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
14263 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
14264 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
14265 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
14266 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14268 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
14269 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
14270 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14271 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14272 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14273 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
14274 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
14275 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14276 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14277 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14278 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14281 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
14282 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14283 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14284 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14285 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14286 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14288 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14289 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14290 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14291 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14292 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14293 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14294 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14295 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14298 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
14299 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
14300 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
14303 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
14304 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14305 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14306 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14308 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14309 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14310 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14312 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14313 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
14314 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
14315 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
14317 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14318 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
14319 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
14320 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
14321 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14322 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14323 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14326 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
14327 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14328 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14329 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14330 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
14333 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
14334 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
14337 o New dependencies:
14338 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
14339 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
14340 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
14341 close ticket 22623.)
14343 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
14344 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14345 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14346 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14347 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14348 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14350 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
14351 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
14352 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
14353 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14355 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
14356 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
14357 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
14358 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
14359 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14361 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
14362 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14363 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14364 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14366 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
14367 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
14368 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
14369 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
14371 o Minor features (geoip):
14372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14375 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
14376 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
14377 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
14379 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
14380 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14381 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
14382 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
14383 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
14384 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
14386 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
14387 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
14389 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
14390 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
14391 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
14392 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
14393 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
14395 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
14396 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
14397 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
14398 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
14399 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14400 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14401 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14402 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14403 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14404 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14405 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14406 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14408 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14409 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14410 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14411 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14412 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14413 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
14414 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
14415 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
14416 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14418 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14419 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
14420 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
14421 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14422 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
14423 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
14424 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
14425 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
14426 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
14427 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
14428 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14429 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
14430 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
14431 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
14432 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
14433 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14435 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
14436 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
14437 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
14438 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
14439 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
14440 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
14441 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
14445 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14447 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14448 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14450 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14451 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14452 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14456 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14457 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14458 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14459 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14460 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14463 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14466 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14467 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14468 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14469 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14470 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14471 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14473 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14474 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14475 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14476 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14478 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14479 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14480 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14481 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14483 o Minor features (geoip):
14484 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14487 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14488 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14489 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14490 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14491 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14493 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14494 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14495 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14496 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14497 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14499 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14500 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14501 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14502 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14503 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14504 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14505 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14506 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14507 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14510 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
14511 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14512 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14513 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14514 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14516 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14517 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14518 bugfixes described below.
14520 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14521 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14522 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14523 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14524 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14525 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14526 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14529 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
14530 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14531 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14532 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14533 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14534 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14535 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14538 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
14539 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14540 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14541 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14542 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14543 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14544 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14545 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14546 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14547 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14548 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14549 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14550 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14553 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
14554 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
14555 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
14557 o Minor features (code style):
14558 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
14559 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
14560 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
14562 o Minor features (diagnostic):
14563 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
14564 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
14565 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
14566 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
14568 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14569 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14570 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14572 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
14573 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
14574 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14576 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
14577 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14578 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14579 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14580 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14581 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14582 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14584 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
14585 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
14586 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
14587 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
14588 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14590 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14591 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
14592 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
14596 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14599 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14600 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14601 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14602 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14603 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14605 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14606 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14607 bugfixes described below.
14609 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14610 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14611 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14612 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14613 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14614 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14615 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14616 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14619 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14620 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14621 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14622 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14623 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14624 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14625 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14628 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14629 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14630 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14631 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14632 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14633 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14634 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14635 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14636 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14637 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14638 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14639 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14640 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14643 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14644 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14645 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14648 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14649 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14650 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14651 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14652 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14654 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14655 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14656 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14658 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14659 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14660 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14662 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14663 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14664 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14665 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14666 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14667 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14668 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14670 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14672 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14673 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14674 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14677 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14678 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14679 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14680 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14681 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14682 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14684 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14685 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14686 bugfixes described below.
14688 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14689 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14690 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14691 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14692 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14695 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14696 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14697 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14698 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14699 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14700 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14701 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14704 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14705 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14706 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14707 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14708 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14710 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14711 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14712 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14713 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14714 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14715 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14716 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14718 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14719 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14720 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14721 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14722 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14724 o Minor features (geoip):
14725 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14728 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14729 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14730 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14731 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14733 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14734 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14735 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14737 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14738 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14739 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14740 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14741 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14744 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14745 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14746 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14747 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14748 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14750 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14751 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14752 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14753 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14754 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14755 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14757 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14758 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14759 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14760 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14763 o Minor features (geoip):
14764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14767 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14768 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14769 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14770 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14771 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14773 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14774 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14775 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14777 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14778 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14779 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14780 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14781 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14782 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14784 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14785 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14786 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14787 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14790 o Minor features (geoip):
14791 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14794 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14795 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14796 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14799 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14800 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14801 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14802 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14803 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14804 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14806 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14807 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14808 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14809 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14812 o Minor features (geoip):
14813 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14816 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14817 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14818 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14820 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14821 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14822 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14823 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14824 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14825 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14827 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14828 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14829 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14830 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14833 o Minor features (geoip):
14834 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14837 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14838 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14839 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14841 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14842 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14843 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14844 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14845 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14846 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14848 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14849 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14850 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14851 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14854 o Minor features (geoip):
14855 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14858 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14859 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14860 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14863 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
14864 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
14865 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
14866 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
14868 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
14869 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
14870 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
14871 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
14872 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14874 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14875 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
14876 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
14879 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
14880 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14881 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14882 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14885 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
14886 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
14887 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
14888 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
14889 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
14892 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
14893 security, correctness, and performance.
14895 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
14897 o Major features (directory protocol):
14898 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
14899 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
14900 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
14901 now request these documents when available. When both client and
14902 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
14903 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
14904 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
14905 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
14906 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
14907 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
14908 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
14909 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
14910 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
14911 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
14912 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
14913 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
14914 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
14916 o Major features (experimental):
14917 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
14918 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
14919 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
14920 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
14921 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
14922 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
14923 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
14925 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
14926 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
14927 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
14928 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
14929 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
14930 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
14933 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
14934 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
14935 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
14936 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
14937 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
14938 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
14939 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
14940 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
14941 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
14942 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
14943 multiples of 10000.
14945 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
14946 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
14947 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
14948 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
14949 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
14950 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
14951 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
14952 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
14953 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
14954 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
14955 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
14956 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
14957 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
14958 Otherwise it is at info.
14960 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
14961 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14962 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14963 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14965 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
14966 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14967 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14968 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14970 o Minor features (security, windows):
14971 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14972 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14973 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14974 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14975 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14977 o Minor features (config options):
14978 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
14979 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
14980 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
14981 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
14982 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
14983 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
14984 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
14985 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
14987 o Minor features (controller):
14988 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
14989 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
14991 o Minor features (defaults):
14992 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
14993 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
14994 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
14995 can. Closes ticket 21407.
14996 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
14997 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
14998 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
14999 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
15000 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
15001 Closes ticket 21641.
15003 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
15004 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
15005 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
15006 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
15007 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
15008 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
15009 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
15011 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
15012 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
15013 introduction points than specified in
15014 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
15015 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
15016 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
15017 21594; closes ticket 21622.
15018 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
15019 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
15020 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
15021 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
15023 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15024 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
15025 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
15026 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
15027 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
15028 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
15029 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
15030 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
15031 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
15032 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
15034 o Minor features (logging):
15035 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
15036 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
15037 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
15038 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
15041 o Minor features (performance):
15042 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
15043 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
15045 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
15046 speed some controller functions.
15048 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15049 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
15050 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
15051 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
15053 o Minor features (safety):
15054 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
15055 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
15056 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
15059 o Minor features (testing):
15060 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
15061 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
15062 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
15063 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
15064 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
15065 on. Closes ticket 21439.
15066 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
15067 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
15068 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
15069 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
15070 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
15071 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
15072 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
15073 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
15074 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
15075 21507. Partially implements 21470.
15077 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
15078 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15079 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15080 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15082 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15083 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
15084 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
15085 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
15088 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15089 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
15090 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15092 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
15093 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
15094 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
15095 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
15096 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
15097 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
15098 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
15099 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
15100 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
15101 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
15102 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
15103 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
15104 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
15105 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
15107 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
15108 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
15109 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15110 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
15111 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
15112 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
15113 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
15114 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15116 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
15117 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
15118 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
15119 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15120 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
15121 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
15122 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
15124 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
15125 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
15126 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
15127 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
15128 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
15130 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15131 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
15132 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15133 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
15134 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
15135 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15136 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
15137 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15138 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
15139 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
15140 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15142 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15143 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
15144 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
15145 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15146 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
15147 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
15148 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15150 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
15151 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
15152 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
15154 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
15155 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
15156 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
15157 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
15158 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
15160 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15161 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
15162 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
15163 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15164 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
15165 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15166 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
15167 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
15168 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
15169 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
15171 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
15172 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15173 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15174 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15175 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15177 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
15178 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
15179 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15181 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15182 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
15183 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
15184 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
15185 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
15186 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
15187 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
15188 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
15189 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
15190 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
15191 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
15192 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
15194 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
15195 Resolves ticket 22213.
15196 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
15197 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
15198 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
15199 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
15200 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
15201 types. Closes ticket 21651.
15202 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
15203 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
15206 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
15207 Closes ticket 21873.
15208 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
15209 Closes ticket 21151.
15210 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
15211 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
15213 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
15214 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15215 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
15216 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
15218 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
15219 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
15220 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15221 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
15222 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
15223 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
15224 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
15225 default behavior is now unavailable.
15226 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
15227 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
15228 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
15229 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
15230 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
15231 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
15232 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
15234 o Removed features (tools):
15235 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
15236 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
15237 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
15238 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
15239 required. Closes ticket 21842.
15242 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
15243 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
15244 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
15245 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
15246 clients are not affected.
15248 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
15249 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
15250 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
15251 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
15252 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
15253 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15256 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15259 o Minor features (future-proofing):
15260 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
15261 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
15262 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
15263 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
15264 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
15265 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
15267 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
15268 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
15269 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
15270 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
15271 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
15275 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
15276 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
15278 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
15279 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
15280 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
15281 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
15282 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
15283 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
15286 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
15287 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
15289 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
15290 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
15291 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
15292 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
15293 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
15295 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
15296 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
15298 o Minor features (geoip):
15299 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15302 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
15303 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
15304 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
15305 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15307 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
15308 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
15309 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
15310 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15313 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
15314 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
15315 0.3.0 release series.
15317 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
15318 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
15319 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
15322 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
15323 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
15324 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
15325 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15327 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
15328 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
15329 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
15330 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15331 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
15333 o Minor features (geoip):
15334 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15337 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
15338 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
15339 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
15340 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
15343 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15344 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
15345 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
15346 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15347 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
15348 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
15349 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
15350 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15352 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
15353 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
15354 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15356 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15357 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15358 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15361 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15362 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
15363 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
15364 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
15365 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15368 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15369 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15370 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15374 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15375 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15376 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15377 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15378 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15381 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15382 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15383 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15385 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15386 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15387 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15388 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15389 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15390 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15391 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15393 o Minor features (geoip):
15394 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15398 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15399 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15400 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15401 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15404 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15405 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15406 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15408 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15409 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15411 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15412 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15413 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15415 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15416 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15417 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15420 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15421 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15422 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15423 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15424 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15425 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15426 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15427 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15428 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15430 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15431 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15432 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15433 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15434 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15435 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15436 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15437 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15438 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15439 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15440 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15441 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15442 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15444 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15445 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15446 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15447 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15448 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15450 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15451 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15452 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15454 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15455 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15456 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15457 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15458 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15459 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15460 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15463 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15464 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15465 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15466 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15467 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15468 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15469 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15471 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15472 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15473 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15474 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15477 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15478 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15479 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15480 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15482 o Minor features (geoip):
15483 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15487 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15488 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15489 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15490 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15493 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15494 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15495 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15497 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15498 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15500 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15501 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15502 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15504 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15505 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15506 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15509 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15510 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15511 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15512 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15513 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15514 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15515 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15516 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15517 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15519 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15520 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15521 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15522 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15523 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15524 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15525 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15526 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15527 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15529 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15530 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15531 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15532 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15533 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15535 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15536 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15537 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15538 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15539 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15542 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15543 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15544 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15545 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15546 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15548 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15549 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15550 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15552 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15553 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15554 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15555 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15556 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15557 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15560 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15561 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15562 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15563 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15564 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15565 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15566 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15569 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15570 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15571 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15572 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15573 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15574 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15575 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15577 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15578 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15579 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15580 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15583 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15584 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15585 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15586 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15588 o Minor features (geoip):
15589 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15592 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15593 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15594 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15597 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15598 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15599 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15600 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15603 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15604 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15605 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15607 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15608 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15610 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15611 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15612 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15614 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15615 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15616 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15619 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15620 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15621 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15622 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15623 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15624 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15625 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15626 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15627 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15629 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15630 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15631 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15632 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15633 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15634 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15635 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15636 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15637 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15639 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15640 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15641 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15642 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15643 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15645 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15646 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15647 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15648 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15649 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15652 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15653 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15654 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15655 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15656 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15658 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15659 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15660 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15662 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15663 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15664 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15665 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15666 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15667 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15670 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15671 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15672 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15673 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15674 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15675 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15676 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15679 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15680 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15681 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15682 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15683 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15684 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15685 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15687 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15688 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15689 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15690 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15693 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15694 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15695 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15696 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15698 o Minor features (geoip):
15699 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15702 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15703 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15704 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15706 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15707 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15708 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15709 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15710 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15711 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15713 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15714 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15715 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15719 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15720 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15721 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15722 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15725 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15726 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15727 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15729 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15730 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15732 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15733 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15734 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15736 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15737 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15738 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15741 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15742 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15743 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15744 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15745 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15746 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15747 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15748 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15749 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15751 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15752 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15753 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15754 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15755 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15756 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15757 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15758 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15759 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15761 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15762 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15763 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15764 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15765 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15768 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15769 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15770 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15771 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15772 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15774 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15775 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15776 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15778 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15779 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15780 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15781 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15782 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15783 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15786 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15787 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15788 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15789 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15790 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15791 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15792 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15795 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15796 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15797 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15798 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15799 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15800 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15801 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15803 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15804 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15805 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15806 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15809 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15810 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15811 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15812 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15814 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15815 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15816 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15817 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15819 o Minor features (geoip):
15820 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15823 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15824 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15825 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15827 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15828 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15829 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15833 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
15834 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
15835 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
15836 keep them from coming back.
15838 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
15839 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
15840 will be nearly identical to it.
15842 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
15843 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
15844 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
15845 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
15846 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
15847 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15849 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
15850 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
15851 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15853 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
15854 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
15855 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
15856 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
15857 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
15858 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
15859 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
15860 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
15861 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
15862 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15863 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15864 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15865 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15866 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15867 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15869 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
15870 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
15871 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
15873 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15874 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15875 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15877 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15878 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15879 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15880 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
15881 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
15882 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
15883 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
15885 o Minor features (geoip):
15886 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15889 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
15890 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
15891 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
15894 o Minor features (testing):
15895 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
15896 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
15897 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
15899 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
15900 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
15901 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
15903 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15904 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15905 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15906 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
15907 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
15908 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15910 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
15911 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
15912 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
15913 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15914 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
15915 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
15916 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
15919 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
15920 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
15921 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
15922 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15923 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
15924 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
15925 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15927 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15928 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
15929 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
15930 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
15931 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
15932 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15934 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15935 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15936 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
15938 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
15939 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15940 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15941 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15942 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15945 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15948 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15949 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15950 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15951 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15953 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15954 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15955 least January of 2020.
15957 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15958 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15959 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15960 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15963 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15964 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15965 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15966 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15967 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15968 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15969 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15971 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15972 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15973 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15974 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15975 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15976 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15977 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15979 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15980 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15981 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15983 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15984 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15985 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15987 o Minor features (geoip):
15988 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15991 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15992 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15993 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15995 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15996 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15998 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15999 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
16000 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
16002 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
16003 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
16004 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
16005 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16006 Patch by "junglefowl".
16009 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
16010 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
16011 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
16012 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
16013 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
16014 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
16016 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
16017 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
16018 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
16021 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
16022 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
16023 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
16024 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
16026 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
16027 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
16028 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
16029 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
16030 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16032 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16033 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
16034 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
16035 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
16036 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16038 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
16039 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
16040 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
16041 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
16042 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
16043 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
16044 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16046 o Minor feature (client):
16047 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
16048 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
16050 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
16051 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
16052 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
16053 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
16055 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
16056 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
16057 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
16058 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
16059 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
16061 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
16062 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
16063 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
16064 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
16065 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
16066 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
16067 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
16068 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
16069 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
16070 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
16072 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
16073 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
16074 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
16076 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
16077 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
16079 o Minor features (relay):
16080 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
16081 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
16082 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
16083 Written by Michael Sonntag.
16085 o Minor bugfix (logging):
16086 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
16087 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
16088 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
16089 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
16092 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16093 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
16094 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
16095 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16097 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
16098 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
16099 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
16101 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
16102 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16103 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
16104 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
16105 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16106 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
16107 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
16109 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
16110 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
16111 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
16112 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
16113 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
16114 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
16115 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
16118 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16119 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
16120 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16122 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16123 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
16124 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
16125 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
16126 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16127 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
16128 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
16129 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
16131 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
16132 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
16133 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16135 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16136 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
16137 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
16138 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
16140 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
16141 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
16142 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
16143 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16145 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
16146 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
16147 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
16148 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
16149 Patch by "junglefowl".
16151 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
16152 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
16153 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
16157 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
16158 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
16159 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
16160 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
16161 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
16162 version should upgrade.
16164 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
16165 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
16166 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
16167 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
16168 the set of fallback directories, and more.
16170 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
16171 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
16172 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
16173 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
16174 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
16175 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
16178 o Major features (security):
16179 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
16180 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
16181 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
16182 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
16183 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
16184 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
16186 o Major features (directory authority, security):
16187 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
16188 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
16189 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
16191 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
16192 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
16193 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
16194 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
16195 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
16198 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
16199 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
16200 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
16201 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
16202 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
16203 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
16204 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
16205 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
16206 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
16207 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
16208 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16210 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
16211 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
16212 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
16214 o Minor features (controller):
16215 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
16216 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
16218 o Minor features (entry guards):
16219 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
16220 break regression tests.
16221 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
16222 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
16224 o Minor features (fallback directories):
16225 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
16227 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
16228 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
16229 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
16230 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
16231 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
16232 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
16233 Closes ticket 20539.
16234 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
16236 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
16237 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
16238 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
16239 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
16240 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
16242 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
16243 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
16244 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
16245 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
16246 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
16247 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
16248 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
16249 Closes ticket 20822.
16250 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
16251 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
16253 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
16254 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16257 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
16258 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
16259 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
16260 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
16262 o Minor features (linting):
16263 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
16264 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
16266 o Minor features (logging):
16267 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
16268 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
16270 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
16271 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
16272 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
16273 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
16274 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
16275 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
16277 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
16278 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
16279 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
16280 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
16282 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16283 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
16284 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
16287 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
16288 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
16289 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
16290 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16292 o Minor bugfixes (config):
16293 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
16294 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
16295 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
16296 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16298 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16299 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
16300 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
16303 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
16304 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
16305 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
16306 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
16307 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16309 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
16310 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
16311 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
16313 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16314 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
16315 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16316 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
16317 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
16318 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
16319 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16320 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
16321 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16323 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
16324 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
16325 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
16326 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16328 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
16329 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
16330 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
16331 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16332 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
16333 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16335 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16336 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
16337 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16338 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
16339 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
16340 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
16341 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
16342 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
16344 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16345 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
16346 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16348 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
16349 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
16350 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
16351 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
16353 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
16354 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16356 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16357 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
16358 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
16359 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
16360 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
16362 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16363 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
16364 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
16366 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16367 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
16368 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
16369 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
16370 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
16372 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16373 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
16374 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
16376 o Documentation (formatting):
16377 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
16378 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
16380 o Documentation (man page):
16381 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
16382 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
16385 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
16386 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
16387 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
16388 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
16389 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
16390 version should upgrade.
16392 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
16393 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
16395 o Major bugfixes (security):
16396 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
16397 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
16398 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
16399 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
16400 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
16401 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16403 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
16404 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
16405 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
16406 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
16407 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
16408 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
16409 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
16410 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
16411 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
16412 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
16413 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16415 o Minor features (geoip):
16416 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16419 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16420 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
16421 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
16422 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
16424 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
16425 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16428 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
16429 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
16430 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
16431 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
16432 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
16433 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
16434 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
16435 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
16437 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
16439 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
16440 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
16441 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
16442 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
16443 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
16446 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
16447 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
16448 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
16449 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
16450 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
16451 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
16452 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
16453 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
16456 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
16457 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
16458 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
16459 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
16460 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
16462 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
16463 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
16464 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
16465 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
16466 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
16467 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
16468 15056; part of proposal 220.
16469 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
16470 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
16471 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
16472 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
16473 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
16475 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
16476 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
16477 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
16478 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
16479 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16481 o Minor features (controller):
16482 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
16483 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
16486 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
16487 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
16488 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
16491 o Minor features (directory authority):
16492 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
16493 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
16494 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
16495 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
16496 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
16498 o Minor features (directory cache):
16499 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
16500 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
16503 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
16504 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
16505 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
16506 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
16508 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
16509 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
16510 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
16511 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
16513 o Minor features (infrastructure):
16514 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
16515 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
16517 o Minor bugfixes (client):
16518 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
16519 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
16520 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
16522 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16523 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
16524 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16525 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
16526 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
16527 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
16529 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
16530 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
16531 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
16532 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
16533 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
16535 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
16536 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
16537 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
16538 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
16539 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16541 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
16542 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
16543 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
16544 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
16545 on all recent tor versions.
16546 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
16547 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
16548 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
16549 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16551 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
16552 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
16553 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16555 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16556 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
16557 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
16558 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
16561 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
16562 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
16563 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
16566 o Minor bugfixes (util):
16567 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
16568 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
16569 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
16570 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
16572 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
16573 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
16574 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
16575 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
16577 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16578 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
16579 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
16580 Closes ticket 19858.
16581 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
16582 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
16583 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
16584 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
16585 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
16586 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
16587 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
16588 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
16589 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
16590 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
16591 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
16592 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
16593 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
16594 redundant with the similar structures used in the
16595 channel abstraction.
16596 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
16597 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
16598 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
16599 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
16600 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
16601 replaced with code automatically generated by the
16605 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
16606 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16607 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
16608 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
16610 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
16611 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
16613 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
16614 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
16615 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
16616 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
16617 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
16620 o Removed features:
16621 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
16622 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
16623 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
16625 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
16626 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
16627 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
16630 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
16631 from "overcaffeinated".
16632 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
16633 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
16634 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
16635 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
16636 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
16640 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
16641 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
16642 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
16643 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
16644 become available for their systems.
16646 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
16649 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
16650 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
16652 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
16653 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16654 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16655 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16656 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16657 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16658 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16659 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16660 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16662 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
16663 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16664 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16665 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16666 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16668 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
16669 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16673 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
16674 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
16676 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
16677 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
16678 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
16679 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
16680 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
16681 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
16682 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
16683 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
16685 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
16687 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
16688 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
16689 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
16690 become available for their systems.
16692 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
16693 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16695 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
16696 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
16697 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
16698 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
16699 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
16700 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
16701 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
16702 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
16703 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
16705 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
16706 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16707 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16708 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16709 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16712 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
16713 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
16714 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
16717 o Minor features (geoip):
16718 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16721 o Minor bugfix (build):
16722 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16723 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16724 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16726 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16727 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
16728 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
16729 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
16731 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
16732 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
16733 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
16735 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16736 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16737 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16740 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16741 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16742 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16743 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16744 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16745 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16747 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16748 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16749 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16750 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16752 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16753 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
16754 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
16756 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16757 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
16758 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
16759 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
16760 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
16761 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
16762 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16763 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
16764 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
16765 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
16768 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16769 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16770 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16771 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16774 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16775 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16776 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16777 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16778 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16779 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16782 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16783 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16784 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16787 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16788 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16789 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16790 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16792 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16793 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16794 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16795 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16798 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16799 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16800 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16801 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16804 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16805 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16806 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16809 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16810 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16811 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16813 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16814 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16815 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16817 o Minor features (geoip):
16818 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16821 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
16822 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
16823 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
16824 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
16825 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
16827 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
16828 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
16829 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
16830 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
16831 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
16832 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16834 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16835 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16836 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16838 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16839 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
16840 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
16841 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
16842 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
16843 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
16845 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16846 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16847 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16849 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16850 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16852 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
16853 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
16854 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
16855 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
16856 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
16857 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
16859 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16860 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16861 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16865 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16866 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16869 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
16870 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
16871 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
16872 everyone to test this release.
16874 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
16875 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16876 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16877 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16880 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
16881 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16882 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16883 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16886 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
16887 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
16888 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
16889 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
16890 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16891 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
16892 download, stop waiting for certificates.
16893 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
16894 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
16895 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
16897 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
16898 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
16899 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
16900 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16901 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
16902 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16903 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
16904 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
16905 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16906 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
16907 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
16908 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
16910 o Minor features (geoip):
16911 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16914 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
16915 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
16916 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
16917 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
16918 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
16919 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16921 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
16922 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
16923 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
16924 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16925 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
16926 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16928 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16929 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16930 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16931 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
16934 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16935 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16936 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16937 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16938 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16939 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16940 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16941 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16943 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
16944 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16945 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16947 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16948 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16949 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16950 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16951 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16952 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16953 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16954 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16956 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
16957 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
16958 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
16961 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16962 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16963 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16966 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
16967 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16968 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16969 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16972 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16973 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16974 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16975 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16976 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16979 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16980 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16981 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16982 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16983 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16984 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16985 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16986 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16987 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16989 o Minor features (geoip):
16990 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16994 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
16995 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
16996 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
16997 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
16998 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
17001 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
17002 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
17003 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
17004 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
17005 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
17006 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
17007 be a release candidate.
17009 o Major features (security fixes):
17010 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17011 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17012 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17013 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17014 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17015 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17016 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17017 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17019 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
17020 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
17021 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
17022 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
17023 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
17024 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
17025 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
17026 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
17027 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
17028 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
17029 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
17030 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
17031 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
17032 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
17035 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
17036 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
17037 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
17039 o Minor features (client, directory):
17040 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
17041 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
17042 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
17045 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
17046 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
17049 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
17050 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
17051 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
17054 o Minor features (geoip):
17055 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17058 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
17059 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
17060 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
17061 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
17062 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
17064 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
17065 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
17066 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
17067 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
17070 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
17071 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
17072 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
17073 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
17074 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
17076 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
17077 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
17078 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
17081 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
17082 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
17083 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
17084 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
17086 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17087 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
17088 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
17089 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
17091 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
17092 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
17093 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
17094 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
17097 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17098 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
17099 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
17103 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
17104 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
17106 o Required libraries:
17107 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
17108 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
17109 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
17112 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
17113 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
17114 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
17115 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
17116 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
17117 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
17118 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
17119 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
17121 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
17122 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
17123 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
17124 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
17125 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
17126 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17128 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
17129 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
17130 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
17131 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
17132 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
17135 o Major features (circuit building, security):
17136 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
17137 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
17138 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
17140 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
17141 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
17143 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
17144 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
17145 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
17146 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
17147 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
17148 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
17149 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
17150 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
17151 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
17152 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
17153 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
17155 o Major features (resource management):
17156 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
17157 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
17158 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
17159 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
17160 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
17161 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
17163 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
17164 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
17165 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
17166 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
17168 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
17169 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
17170 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
17171 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17173 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17174 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
17175 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
17176 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
17177 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
17178 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
17180 o Minor features (security, TLS):
17181 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
17182 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
17183 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
17184 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
17186 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
17187 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
17188 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
17189 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
17191 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
17192 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17195 o Minor feature (port flags):
17196 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
17197 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
17198 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
17199 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
17200 18693; patch by "teor".
17202 o Minor features (directory authority):
17203 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
17204 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
17205 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
17207 o Minor features (testing):
17208 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
17209 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
17210 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
17211 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
17213 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
17214 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
17215 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
17216 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
17217 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
17218 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
17219 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
17220 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
17221 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
17223 o Minor features (Tor2web):
17224 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
17225 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
17226 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
17228 o Minor features (unit tests):
17229 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
17230 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
17231 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
17232 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
17233 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
17234 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
17235 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
17236 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
17238 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
17239 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
17240 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
17241 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
17242 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
17243 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
17244 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
17245 assertion as a test failure.
17247 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
17248 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
17249 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
17250 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
17251 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
17252 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
17254 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
17255 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
17256 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
17257 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
17258 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
17259 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
17260 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
17261 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
17262 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
17263 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
17264 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17265 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
17266 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
17267 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
17268 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
17269 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17271 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17272 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
17273 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
17274 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
17275 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17276 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
17277 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
17280 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17281 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
17282 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
17283 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
17284 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
17285 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
17286 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
17289 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17290 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
17291 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
17292 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
17294 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
17295 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
17296 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
17298 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17299 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
17300 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
17301 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
17302 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
17303 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17305 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17306 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
17307 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
17308 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
17310 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
17311 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
17312 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
17314 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
17315 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
17316 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
17317 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
17318 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
17319 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
17321 o Minor bugfixes (options):
17322 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
17323 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
17325 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
17326 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
17327 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
17330 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
17331 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
17332 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
17333 19678. Patch by teor.
17335 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
17336 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
17337 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
17338 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
17339 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
17340 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
17342 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
17343 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
17347 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
17348 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
17349 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
17350 who select public relays as their bridges.
17352 o Major bugfixes (crash):
17353 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
17354 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
17355 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
17356 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
17357 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17359 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
17360 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
17361 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
17362 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
17363 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
17366 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
17367 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
17368 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
17369 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
17371 o Minor features (geoip):
17372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17376 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
17377 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
17378 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
17379 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
17380 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
17381 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
17383 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
17384 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17385 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17387 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
17388 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
17389 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
17390 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
17391 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
17392 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17394 o Major features (user interface):
17395 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
17396 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
17397 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
17399 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
17400 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
17401 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
17402 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
17404 o Minor features (config):
17405 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
17406 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
17408 o Minor features (geoip):
17409 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17412 o Minor features (user interface):
17413 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
17414 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
17417 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
17418 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
17419 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
17421 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17422 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
17423 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
17425 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
17426 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
17427 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
17428 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17430 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
17431 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
17432 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
17435 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
17436 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
17437 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
17438 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
17440 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17441 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
17442 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17444 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
17445 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
17446 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
17448 o Deprecated features:
17449 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
17450 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
17451 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
17452 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
17453 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
17454 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
17455 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
17456 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
17457 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
17458 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
17459 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
17460 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
17461 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
17462 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
17463 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
17464 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
17465 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
17466 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
17467 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
17468 and TransListenAddress.
17471 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
17472 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
17475 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
17476 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
17479 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
17480 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
17481 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
17482 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
17483 encouraged to upgrade.
17485 o Directory authority changes:
17486 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17487 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17489 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
17490 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
17491 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
17492 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
17493 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
17494 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17496 o Minor features (geoip):
17497 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17500 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17501 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
17502 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
17505 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17506 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
17507 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
17508 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
17511 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
17512 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
17513 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
17514 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
17515 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
17516 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
17517 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
17518 security, correctness, and performance.
17520 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
17522 o New system requirements:
17523 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
17524 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
17525 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
17526 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
17527 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
17528 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
17529 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
17530 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
17532 o Major features (build, hardening):
17533 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
17534 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
17535 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
17536 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
17537 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
17538 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
17539 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
17540 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
17541 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
17543 o Major features (compilation):
17544 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
17545 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
17546 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
17547 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
17549 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
17550 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
17551 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
17553 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
17554 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
17555 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
17556 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
17557 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
17558 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
17559 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
17560 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
17562 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
17563 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
17564 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
17565 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
17566 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
17567 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
17568 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
17570 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
17571 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
17572 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
17573 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
17574 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
17575 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
17576 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17578 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
17579 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
17580 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
17581 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
17582 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
17584 o Minor features (build, hardening):
17585 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
17586 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
17587 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
17588 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
17589 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
17590 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
17591 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
17592 Closes ticket 18895.
17594 o Minor features (code safety):
17595 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
17596 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
17599 o Minor features (controller):
17600 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
17601 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
17602 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
17603 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
17604 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
17605 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
17606 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
17607 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
17609 o Minor features (directory authority):
17610 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
17611 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
17612 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
17613 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
17614 Implements ticket 18624.
17615 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
17616 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
17617 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
17620 o Minor features (hidden service):
17621 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
17622 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
17623 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
17626 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
17627 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
17628 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
17629 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
17630 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
17631 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
17632 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
17633 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
17634 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
17635 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
17636 Closes ticket 18365.
17638 o Minor features (logging):
17639 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
17640 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
17641 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
17642 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
17643 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
17644 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
17645 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
17646 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
17647 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
17648 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
17650 o Minor features (performance):
17651 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
17652 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
17653 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
17654 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
17655 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
17656 Closes ticket 18815.
17658 o Minor features (relay, usability):
17659 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
17660 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
17661 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
17662 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
17665 o Minor features (testing):
17666 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
17667 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17668 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
17669 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
17670 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
17671 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
17672 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
17673 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
17676 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
17677 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
17678 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
17679 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
17680 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17682 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17683 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
17684 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
17685 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
17686 patch from "cypherpunks".
17688 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
17689 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
17690 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17692 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17693 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
17694 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
17695 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
17697 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17698 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
17699 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
17700 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17701 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
17702 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
17703 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
17704 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17706 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
17707 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
17708 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17709 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
17710 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
17711 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
17712 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
17714 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
17715 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
17716 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
17719 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
17720 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
17721 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
17723 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
17724 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
17725 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
17728 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
17729 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
17730 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
17731 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
17734 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17735 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
17736 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
17738 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17739 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
17740 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
17743 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17744 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
17745 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17746 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
17747 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
17748 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
17749 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17750 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
17751 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
17754 o Minor bugfixes (time):
17755 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
17756 bugfix on all released tor versions.
17757 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
17758 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
17759 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
17760 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
17762 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
17763 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
17764 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
17765 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
17766 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
17768 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
17769 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17771 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17772 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
17774 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
17775 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
17776 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
17777 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
17780 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
17781 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
17783 o Removed features:
17784 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
17785 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
17786 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
17787 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
17788 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
17789 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
17790 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
17793 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
17794 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
17795 command-line options to enable them.
17796 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
17797 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
17800 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
17802 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
17804 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
17805 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
17806 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
17807 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
17808 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
17809 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17811 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
17813 o Minor features (geoip):
17814 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17817 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17818 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
17819 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17821 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17822 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
17823 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
17824 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
17826 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17827 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
17828 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
17829 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
17830 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17831 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
17832 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
17833 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17836 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
17837 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
17838 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
17839 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
17840 against previous versions.
17842 o Directory authority changes:
17843 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17845 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
17846 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
17847 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
17848 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
17850 o Minor features (build):
17851 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
17852 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
17853 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
17854 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
17855 Patch from intrigeri.
17857 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
17858 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
17859 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
17862 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
17863 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
17864 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
17865 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
17866 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
17869 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17870 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
17871 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
17872 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17873 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
17874 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
17875 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
17877 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
17878 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
17879 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
17880 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
17882 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
17883 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
17884 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
17885 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
17886 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
17887 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17889 o Fallback directory list:
17890 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
17891 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
17892 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
17893 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
17894 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
17895 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
17896 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
17897 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
17898 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
17901 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
17902 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
17903 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
17904 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
17907 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
17908 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
17909 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
17910 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17912 o Minor features (build):
17913 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
17914 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
17916 o Minor features (geoip):
17917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
17920 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17921 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
17922 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17924 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17925 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17926 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17927 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17931 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
17932 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
17933 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
17934 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
17935 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
17938 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
17939 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17940 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17941 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17942 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17944 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
17945 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
17946 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
17947 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
17948 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
17949 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
17951 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
17952 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
17953 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
17954 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17956 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
17957 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
17958 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
17959 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
17960 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
17961 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
17962 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
17964 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
17965 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
17967 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
17968 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
17969 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
17971 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17972 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
17973 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
17974 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
17975 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
17976 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17979 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
17980 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
17981 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
17984 o Major bugfixes (key management):
17985 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17986 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17987 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17988 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17989 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17990 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17993 o Major bugfixes (testing):
17994 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
17995 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17996 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
17997 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17999 o Minor features (clients):
18000 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
18001 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
18002 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
18004 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
18005 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
18006 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
18007 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
18008 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
18009 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
18010 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
18011 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
18012 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
18013 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
18015 o Minor features (geoip):
18016 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18019 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
18020 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
18021 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
18024 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
18025 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
18026 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
18028 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18029 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
18030 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
18032 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
18033 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
18035 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
18036 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
18039 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18040 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
18041 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
18042 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
18043 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18044 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
18045 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
18046 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18048 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
18049 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
18050 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
18051 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
18052 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18054 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
18055 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
18056 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
18057 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18058 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
18059 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
18062 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
18063 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
18064 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
18065 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
18066 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
18067 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18069 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18070 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
18071 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
18072 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18073 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
18074 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18075 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
18076 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18078 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18079 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
18080 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
18081 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
18083 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
18084 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
18085 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
18086 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
18087 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
18088 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
18091 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18092 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
18093 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
18095 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
18096 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
18097 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18099 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18100 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
18101 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
18103 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18104 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
18105 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
18106 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
18107 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
18108 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
18109 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18111 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
18112 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
18113 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
18114 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
18117 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
18118 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
18119 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
18120 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
18123 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
18124 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
18125 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
18126 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
18127 directory support should also be much improved.
18129 o New system requirements:
18130 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
18131 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
18132 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
18133 longer runs with, these versions.
18134 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
18135 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
18136 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
18138 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
18139 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
18140 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
18141 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
18142 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
18144 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
18145 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
18146 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
18147 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
18148 Reported by Guido Vranken.
18150 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
18151 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
18152 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
18153 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
18154 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
18156 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
18157 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
18158 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
18159 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18161 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
18162 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
18163 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18164 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
18165 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18167 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
18168 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
18169 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
18170 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
18171 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
18172 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18175 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
18176 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
18177 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18179 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
18180 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
18181 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
18182 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
18185 o Major bugfixes (voting):
18186 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
18187 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
18188 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
18189 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
18191 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
18192 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
18193 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
18194 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18195 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
18196 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
18197 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
18198 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
18199 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
18200 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18202 o Minor features (security, win32):
18203 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
18204 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
18207 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
18208 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
18209 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
18210 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
18212 o Minor features (build):
18213 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
18214 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
18215 Steven Chamberlain.
18217 o Minor features (code hardening):
18218 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
18219 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
18220 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
18223 o Minor features (crypto):
18224 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
18225 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
18228 o Minor features (geoip):
18229 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18232 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
18233 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
18234 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
18235 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
18236 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
18238 o Minor features (IPv6):
18239 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
18240 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
18241 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
18242 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
18243 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
18244 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
18245 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
18247 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18248 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
18249 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
18250 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
18251 while fixing 18548.
18253 o Minor features (robustness):
18254 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
18255 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
18256 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
18258 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
18259 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
18260 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
18261 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
18262 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
18263 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
18264 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
18267 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
18268 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
18269 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
18270 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
18271 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
18273 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
18274 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
18275 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
18276 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
18278 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18279 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
18280 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
18282 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
18283 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
18284 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18285 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
18286 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
18287 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
18289 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
18290 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
18291 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
18292 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
18293 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18295 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18296 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
18297 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
18298 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
18301 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18302 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
18303 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18305 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
18306 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
18307 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
18308 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
18310 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18311 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
18312 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
18313 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
18314 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
18315 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18317 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
18318 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
18319 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
18320 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
18322 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
18323 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
18324 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
18325 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
18326 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
18328 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
18329 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
18330 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
18331 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
18332 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
18333 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
18334 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
18335 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
18336 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
18339 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
18340 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
18341 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
18342 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18344 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
18345 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
18346 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
18348 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18349 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
18350 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
18351 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18352 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
18353 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
18354 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18355 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
18356 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18358 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18359 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
18360 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
18361 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
18362 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
18363 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
18364 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
18365 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
18366 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
18367 Christian, patch by teor.
18369 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
18370 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
18371 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
18372 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
18374 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
18375 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
18376 patch by "cypherpunks".
18377 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
18379 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
18380 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18382 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
18383 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
18384 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
18385 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
18387 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
18388 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
18389 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
18392 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18393 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
18394 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
18395 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
18396 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
18397 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
18399 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
18400 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
18401 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
18402 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
18404 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
18405 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
18406 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
18407 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
18409 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18410 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
18411 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
18412 17744. Patch from zerosion.
18413 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
18414 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
18415 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
18416 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
18417 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
18420 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
18421 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
18422 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
18424 o Removed features:
18425 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
18426 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
18427 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
18430 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
18432 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
18433 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
18436 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
18437 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
18438 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
18439 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
18440 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
18442 o Major features (security, Linux):
18443 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
18444 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
18445 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
18446 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
18447 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
18449 o Major features (directory system):
18450 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
18451 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
18452 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
18453 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
18454 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
18455 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
18456 "mikeperry" and "teor".
18457 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
18458 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
18459 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
18460 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
18461 15775. Patch by "teor".
18462 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
18463 "gsathya", and "karsten".
18464 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
18465 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
18466 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
18467 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
18468 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
18471 o Major key updates:
18472 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
18473 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
18476 o Minor features (security, clock):
18477 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
18478 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
18479 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
18480 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
18482 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
18483 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
18484 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
18485 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
18486 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
18487 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18489 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
18490 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
18491 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
18492 Implements ticket 17026.
18493 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
18494 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
18495 Implements feature 17986.
18496 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
18497 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
18498 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
18499 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
18500 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
18501 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
18504 o Minor features (security, RNG):
18505 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
18506 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
18507 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
18508 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
18509 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
18510 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
18511 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
18512 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
18513 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
18514 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
18517 o Minor features (accounting):
18518 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
18519 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
18520 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
18521 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
18523 o Minor features (build):
18524 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
18525 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
18526 patch from "cypherpunks."
18527 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
18528 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
18529 17549, 17921, and 17984.
18531 o Minor features (controller):
18532 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
18533 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
18534 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
18535 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
18536 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
18537 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
18538 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
18539 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
18542 o Minor features (crypto):
18543 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
18545 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
18546 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
18547 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
18548 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
18549 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
18550 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
18551 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
18552 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18554 o Minor features (directory downloads):
18555 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
18556 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
18557 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
18558 17864; patch by "teor".
18559 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
18560 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
18561 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
18563 o Minor features (geoip):
18564 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18567 o Minor features (IPv6):
18568 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
18569 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
18570 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
18571 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
18572 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
18573 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
18574 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
18575 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
18576 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
18577 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
18578 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
18580 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
18581 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18582 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
18583 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
18585 o Minor features (logging):
18586 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
18587 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
18588 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
18589 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
18592 o Minor features (portability):
18593 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
18594 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
18596 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
18597 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
18598 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
18599 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
18600 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
18602 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
18603 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
18604 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
18605 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
18606 Resolves ticket 17951.
18608 o Minor features (replay cache):
18609 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
18610 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
18612 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
18613 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
18614 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
18615 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
18616 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
18617 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
18618 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
18619 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
18620 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
18621 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
18622 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
18623 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
18624 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
18625 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
18627 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
18628 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
18629 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
18630 from "unixninja92".
18632 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
18633 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
18634 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
18635 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18636 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
18637 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
18639 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
18642 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18643 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
18644 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
18645 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18646 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
18647 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
18648 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18649 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
18651 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
18652 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
18653 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
18654 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
18655 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
18656 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
18657 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18658 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
18660 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
18661 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
18663 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
18664 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
18665 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18667 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18668 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
18669 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
18670 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18672 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18673 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
18674 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
18676 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18677 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
18678 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18680 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18681 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
18682 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
18683 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
18684 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
18686 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
18687 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18689 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18690 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
18691 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
18694 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
18695 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
18696 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
18697 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
18698 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
18699 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
18701 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
18702 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
18703 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
18704 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
18705 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
18707 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
18708 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
18709 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
18712 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
18713 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
18714 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
18715 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18716 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
18717 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
18718 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
18719 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
18722 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18723 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
18724 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
18725 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
18726 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
18727 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18728 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
18729 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
18730 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
18731 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
18733 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
18734 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18736 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18737 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
18738 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
18739 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
18740 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
18741 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
18742 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
18743 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
18744 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
18745 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
18747 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
18748 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
18749 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
18750 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
18752 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
18753 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
18754 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
18755 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
18756 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
18758 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
18759 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
18762 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
18763 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
18764 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
18765 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
18766 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
18767 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
18768 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
18771 o Removed features:
18772 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
18773 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
18774 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
18775 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
18776 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
18779 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
18780 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
18781 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
18782 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
18783 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
18784 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
18785 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
18786 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
18787 portion of ticket 16831.
18788 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
18789 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
18790 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
18792 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
18793 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
18796 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
18797 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
18798 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
18800 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
18801 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
18802 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
18803 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
18804 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
18805 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
18808 o Minor features (geoip):
18809 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18812 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18813 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
18814 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
18815 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
18816 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
18817 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
18819 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
18820 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
18821 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
18822 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
18823 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
18824 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
18825 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
18826 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18827 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
18828 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18831 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
18832 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
18833 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
18834 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
18835 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
18836 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
18837 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
18838 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
18839 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
18840 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
18841 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
18842 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
18843 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
18844 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
18845 that would make him proud.
18847 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
18849 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
18850 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
18851 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
18852 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
18853 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
18854 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
18855 of Tor invoke which others.
18857 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
18860 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
18861 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
18862 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
18863 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
18864 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
18865 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
18866 release will the the official stable release.
18868 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
18869 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
18870 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
18871 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
18872 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
18875 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
18876 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
18877 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18879 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
18880 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
18881 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
18882 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
18883 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
18884 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
18885 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
18887 o Minor features (geoIP):
18888 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18891 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18892 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
18893 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
18894 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
18895 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18896 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
18897 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
18899 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18900 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
18901 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
18904 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
18905 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
18906 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
18907 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
18909 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18910 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
18911 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
18912 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
18913 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
18914 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
18915 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
18916 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
18917 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
18918 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
18919 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
18923 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
18924 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
18928 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
18929 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
18930 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
18931 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
18932 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
18934 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
18935 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
18936 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
18937 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
18939 o Major features (security, hidden services):
18940 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
18941 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
18942 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
18943 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
18944 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
18945 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
18946 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
18948 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
18949 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
18950 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
18951 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
18952 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
18953 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
18956 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
18957 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
18958 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
18959 available. Implements ticket 16535.
18960 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
18961 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
18964 o Major features (performance testing):
18965 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
18966 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
18967 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
18969 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
18970 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
18971 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
18972 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
18974 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
18975 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
18976 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
18977 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
18978 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
18979 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
18981 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
18982 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
18984 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
18985 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
18986 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18987 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
18988 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
18990 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
18991 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
18992 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
18993 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
18994 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
18995 own. Implements feature 15482.
18996 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
18997 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
18999 o Minor features (compilation):
19000 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
19001 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
19002 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
19003 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
19004 which started requiring ECC.
19006 o Minor features (geoip):
19007 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19010 o Minor features (hidden services):
19011 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
19012 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
19013 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
19014 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
19015 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
19016 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
19017 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
19018 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
19020 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
19021 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
19022 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
19025 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
19026 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
19027 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
19028 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
19030 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
19031 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
19032 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
19033 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
19034 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
19036 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
19037 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
19038 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
19039 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
19040 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19041 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
19042 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
19043 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
19044 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
19045 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
19046 Related to ticket 16069.
19047 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
19048 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
19049 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
19050 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
19051 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
19052 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19054 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
19055 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
19056 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19057 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
19058 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
19060 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
19061 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
19062 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19064 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
19065 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
19066 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
19067 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19069 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19070 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
19071 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
19072 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
19073 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19075 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19076 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
19077 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
19078 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
19079 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19080 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
19081 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
19082 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
19083 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
19084 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
19085 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
19088 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
19089 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
19090 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19092 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19093 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
19094 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19095 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
19096 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19098 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
19099 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
19100 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
19101 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
19103 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19104 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
19105 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
19107 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
19108 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19109 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
19110 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
19111 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
19112 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19113 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
19114 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19116 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
19117 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
19118 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
19119 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
19120 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
19122 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
19123 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
19126 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19127 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
19128 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
19129 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
19130 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
19131 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
19132 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
19133 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
19134 function. Closes ticket 16763.
19135 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
19136 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
19137 suite of other microdesc functions.
19138 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
19139 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
19140 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
19141 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
19142 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
19143 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
19144 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
19145 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
19146 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
19147 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
19149 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
19150 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
19152 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
19155 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
19156 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
19157 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
19158 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
19162 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
19163 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
19164 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
19165 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
19166 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
19167 Closes ticket 13338.
19168 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
19169 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
19170 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
19171 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
19172 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
19173 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
19176 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
19177 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
19178 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
19179 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
19180 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
19181 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
19182 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
19184 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
19185 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
19186 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
19187 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
19188 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
19189 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
19190 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
19191 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
19192 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
19193 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
19194 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
19195 network before we begin.
19196 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
19197 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
19198 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
19199 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
19200 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
19201 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
19202 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
19203 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
19206 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
19207 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
19208 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
19209 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
19210 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
19211 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
19213 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
19214 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
19215 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
19217 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
19218 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
19219 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
19220 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
19221 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
19222 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
19223 Implements part of ticket 12498.
19224 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
19225 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
19226 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
19227 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
19228 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
19229 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
19230 part of ticket 12498.
19231 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
19232 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
19233 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
19234 key). Closes ticket 13642.
19236 o Major features (Hidden services):
19237 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
19238 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
19239 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
19240 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
19241 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
19243 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
19244 introduction points, which used to change the number of
19245 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
19246 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
19248 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
19249 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
19250 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
19251 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
19252 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
19253 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
19255 o Major features (performance):
19256 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
19257 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
19258 Implements ticket 16467.
19259 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
19260 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
19261 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
19262 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
19264 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
19265 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
19266 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
19267 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
19268 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
19269 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
19271 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
19272 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
19273 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
19274 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
19275 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
19276 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
19277 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
19278 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
19281 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19282 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
19283 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
19284 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
19285 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
19286 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
19287 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
19290 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
19291 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
19292 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
19293 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
19294 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
19295 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
19297 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
19298 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
19299 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
19300 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
19301 by "cypherpunks_backup".
19302 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
19303 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
19304 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
19307 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
19308 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
19309 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
19310 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
19311 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
19312 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
19313 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
19315 o Minor features (client):
19316 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
19317 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
19318 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
19320 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
19321 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
19322 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
19323 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
19324 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
19325 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
19326 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
19329 o Minor features (control protocol):
19330 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
19331 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
19333 o Minor features (directory authorities):
19334 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
19335 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
19336 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
19337 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
19338 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
19340 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
19341 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19342 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19344 o Minor features (hidden services):
19345 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
19346 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
19347 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
19348 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
19351 o Minor features (portability):
19352 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
19353 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
19354 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
19356 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
19357 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
19358 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
19359 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
19361 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
19362 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
19363 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
19364 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19366 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
19367 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
19368 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
19369 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
19370 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
19371 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
19373 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19374 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
19375 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
19376 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19377 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
19378 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
19379 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19381 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19382 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
19383 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19385 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
19386 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
19387 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
19388 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
19390 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
19391 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
19392 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
19393 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
19395 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
19396 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
19399 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
19400 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
19401 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
19402 from "cypherpunks".
19404 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
19405 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
19406 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19407 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
19408 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
19409 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
19411 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
19412 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
19413 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19415 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
19416 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
19417 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
19419 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
19420 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
19421 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19422 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
19423 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19424 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
19425 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
19426 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
19427 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19429 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19430 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
19431 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
19432 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
19433 haven't supported that in ages.
19434 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
19435 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
19436 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
19437 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
19440 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
19441 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
19442 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
19443 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
19444 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
19445 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
19447 o Removed features:
19448 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
19449 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
19450 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
19451 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
19452 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
19453 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
19454 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
19455 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
19456 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
19457 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
19458 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
19459 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
19460 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
19461 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
19462 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
19463 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
19464 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
19467 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
19468 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
19469 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
19470 Closes ticket 15817.
19471 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
19472 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
19474 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
19475 default as a part of "make check".
19476 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
19477 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
19478 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
19479 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
19483 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
19484 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
19485 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
19486 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
19487 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
19488 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
19490 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
19491 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
19492 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
19493 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
19494 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
19495 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
19496 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
19497 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
19500 o Major bugfixes (stability):
19501 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
19502 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
19503 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
19504 by "cypherpunks_backup".
19505 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
19506 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
19507 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
19510 o Minor features (geoip):
19511 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19512 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19514 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
19515 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
19516 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
19517 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
19518 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
19519 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
19521 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19522 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
19523 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
19524 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
19527 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
19528 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
19529 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
19530 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
19531 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
19533 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
19534 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
19535 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
19536 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
19537 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
19540 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
19541 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
19542 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
19543 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
19544 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
19545 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
19546 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
19548 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19549 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
19550 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
19551 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
19553 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19554 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
19555 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
19556 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
19557 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
19558 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
19561 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
19562 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
19563 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
19566 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
19567 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
19568 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
19569 authorities should upgrade.
19571 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
19572 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
19573 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
19574 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
19577 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
19578 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
19579 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
19582 o Minor features (geoip):
19583 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19584 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19588 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
19589 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
19590 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
19591 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
19592 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
19593 the hidden services subsystem.
19595 o New system requirements:
19596 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
19597 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
19600 o Major features (controller):
19601 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
19602 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
19604 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
19605 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
19606 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
19607 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
19608 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
19609 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
19610 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
19612 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19613 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
19614 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
19615 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
19618 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
19619 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
19620 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
19621 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
19622 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
19624 o Minor features (command-line interface):
19625 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
19626 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19627 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
19628 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
19630 o Minor features (controller):
19631 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
19632 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
19633 present. Implements ticket 14840.
19634 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
19635 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
19636 Closes ticket 14845.
19637 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
19638 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
19639 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
19641 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
19642 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
19643 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
19644 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
19646 o Minor features (geoip):
19647 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19648 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19651 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
19652 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
19653 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
19654 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
19655 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
19656 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
19657 Closes ticket 15745.
19659 o Minor features (logging):
19660 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
19661 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
19664 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
19665 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
19666 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
19667 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
19669 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
19670 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
19671 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
19672 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
19673 Resolves ticket 15435.
19675 o Minor features (testing):
19676 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
19677 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
19678 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
19679 files. Closes ticket 15180.
19680 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
19681 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
19682 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
19683 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
19684 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
19685 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
19686 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
19687 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
19688 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
19689 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
19690 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
19691 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
19693 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19694 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
19695 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
19698 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
19699 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
19700 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
19702 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
19703 stderr, not stdout.
19705 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
19706 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
19707 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
19708 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
19709 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
19710 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
19711 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
19712 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19714 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
19715 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
19716 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
19718 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
19719 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
19720 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
19723 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19724 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
19725 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
19727 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
19728 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19730 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19731 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
19732 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
19733 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
19736 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
19737 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
19738 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
19739 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
19740 recent enough Clang.
19742 o Minor bugfixes (network):
19743 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
19744 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
19745 unsuitable for public communications.
19747 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19748 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
19749 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
19750 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
19751 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
19752 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
19754 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
19755 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
19756 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
19757 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
19758 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
19759 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
19760 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
19761 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
19763 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19764 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
19765 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
19767 - Set the severity correctly when testing
19768 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
19769 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
19770 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
19771 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
19773 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19774 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
19775 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
19777 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
19778 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
19779 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
19780 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
19781 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
19784 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
19785 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
19787 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
19788 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19789 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
19790 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
19791 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
19794 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
19795 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
19796 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
19797 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
19798 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
19799 Closes ticket 14922.
19801 o Removed features:
19802 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
19803 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
19804 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
19805 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
19806 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
19807 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
19808 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
19809 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
19810 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
19811 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
19812 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
19815 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
19816 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
19817 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
19818 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
19819 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
19821 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
19822 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
19824 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
19825 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
19826 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
19827 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
19828 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
19829 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
19830 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
19832 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
19833 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
19834 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
19835 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
19836 Resolves ticket 15515.
19839 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
19840 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
19841 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
19842 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
19843 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
19845 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
19846 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
19848 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
19849 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
19850 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
19851 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
19852 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
19853 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
19854 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
19856 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
19857 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
19858 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
19859 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
19860 Resolves ticket 15515.
19863 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
19864 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
19865 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
19866 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
19867 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
19869 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
19870 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
19872 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
19873 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
19874 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
19875 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
19876 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
19877 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
19878 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
19880 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
19881 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
19882 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
19883 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
19884 Resolves ticket 15515.
19885 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
19886 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
19887 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
19891 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
19892 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
19894 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
19895 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
19896 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
19897 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
19898 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
19899 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
19900 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
19901 bugs should be addressed.
19903 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
19904 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
19905 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
19906 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
19908 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
19909 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
19910 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
19912 o Major bugfixes (client):
19913 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
19914 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
19917 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19918 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
19919 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
19920 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
19921 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
19922 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19924 o Major bugfixes (portability):
19925 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
19926 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
19929 o Minor features (heartbeat):
19930 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
19931 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
19932 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
19933 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
19935 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19936 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
19937 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
19940 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19941 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19943 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19944 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19945 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19947 o Directory authority changes:
19948 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19949 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19950 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19951 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19952 closes ticket 14487.
19954 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19955 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19956 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19959 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19960 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19961 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19962 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19963 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19964 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19965 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19966 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19968 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19969 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19970 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19971 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19973 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19974 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19975 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19976 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19978 o Minor features (controller):
19979 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19980 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19981 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19983 o Minor features (geoip):
19984 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19985 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19988 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19989 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19990 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19991 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19992 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19993 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19996 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19997 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19998 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
20000 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
20001 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
20002 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
20003 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
20004 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
20005 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
20006 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
20007 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20009 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20010 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
20011 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20013 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
20014 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
20015 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
20016 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
20017 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
20021 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
20022 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
20023 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
20026 o Directory authority changes:
20027 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20028 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20029 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20030 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20031 closes ticket 14487.
20033 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
20034 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20035 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20036 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20038 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
20039 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20040 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
20041 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20042 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
20043 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20044 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20045 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20047 o Minor features (geoip):
20048 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20049 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20052 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
20053 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
20054 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
20055 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
20056 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
20058 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
20059 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
20060 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
20063 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
20064 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
20065 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
20066 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
20067 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20068 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
20069 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
20070 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20072 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
20073 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
20074 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
20077 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20078 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
20079 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
20081 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
20082 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20083 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
20084 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
20085 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
20087 o Minor features (controller):
20088 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
20089 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
20090 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
20092 o Minor features (geoip):
20093 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
20094 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20097 o Minor features (logs):
20098 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
20101 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
20102 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
20103 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
20104 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20105 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
20106 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
20107 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
20108 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
20109 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
20111 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20112 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
20114 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
20117 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20118 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
20119 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
20121 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
20122 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
20123 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
20124 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
20125 from "cypherpunks".
20126 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
20127 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
20130 o Directory authority IP change:
20131 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
20132 closes ticket 14487.
20135 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
20136 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
20137 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
20141 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
20142 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
20143 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
20144 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
20145 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
20146 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
20148 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
20149 the next version will be a release candidate.
20151 o Deprecated versions:
20152 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
20153 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
20155 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
20156 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
20157 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
20158 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
20159 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
20160 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
20162 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
20163 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
20164 Implements ticket 11485.
20166 o Major features (changed defaults):
20167 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
20168 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
20169 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
20170 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
20171 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
20172 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
20174 o Major features (directory system):
20175 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
20176 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
20177 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
20178 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
20179 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
20180 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
20181 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
20182 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
20183 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
20184 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
20185 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
20186 227. Closes ticket 10395.
20188 o Major features (guards):
20189 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
20190 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
20191 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
20192 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
20193 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
20195 o Major features (performance):
20196 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
20197 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
20198 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
20199 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
20200 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
20201 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
20202 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
20203 Implements ticket 9682.
20205 o Major features (relay):
20206 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
20207 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
20208 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
20210 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
20211 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
20212 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
20213 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
20215 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
20216 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
20217 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
20218 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
20219 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
20220 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
20221 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
20223 o Minor features (build):
20224 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
20225 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
20226 Resolves ticket 13037.
20228 o Minor features (controller):
20229 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
20230 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
20232 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
20233 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
20234 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
20235 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
20236 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
20237 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
20239 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
20240 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
20241 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
20242 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
20243 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
20244 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
20245 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
20246 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
20247 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
20248 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
20250 o Minor features (geoip):
20251 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
20252 GeoLite2 Country database.
20254 o Minor features (guard nodes):
20255 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
20256 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
20257 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
20259 o Minor features (hidden service):
20260 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
20261 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
20262 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
20263 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
20264 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
20265 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
20266 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
20267 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
20269 o Minor features (interface):
20270 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
20271 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
20272 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
20274 o Minor features (logging):
20275 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
20276 Resolves ticket 6852.
20277 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
20278 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
20279 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
20281 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
20282 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
20284 o Minor features (stability):
20285 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
20286 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
20289 o Minor features (systemd):
20290 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
20291 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
20293 o Minor features (testing networks):
20294 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
20295 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
20296 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
20297 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
20298 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
20299 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
20301 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
20302 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
20303 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
20304 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
20305 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
20307 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
20308 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
20309 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
20310 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
20311 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
20313 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
20314 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
20315 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
20316 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
20317 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
20318 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
20319 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
20320 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20322 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
20323 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
20324 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
20325 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20326 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
20327 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20328 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
20329 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
20331 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
20332 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
20333 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
20336 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
20337 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
20338 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
20339 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
20340 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
20342 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
20343 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
20344 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
20345 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
20346 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20348 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20349 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
20350 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
20351 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
20352 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
20353 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
20354 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
20355 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
20356 Addresses ticket 14188.
20357 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
20358 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
20359 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
20360 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
20361 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
20362 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
20363 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
20364 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
20365 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20367 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
20368 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
20369 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
20370 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
20371 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
20372 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
20373 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
20374 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20376 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
20377 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
20378 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
20379 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
20380 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
20381 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
20382 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
20383 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20384 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
20385 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
20386 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
20387 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
20388 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20390 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
20391 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
20392 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
20393 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
20394 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
20395 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
20396 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
20397 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
20398 state, and key files.
20399 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
20400 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
20403 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20404 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
20405 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
20406 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
20407 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20408 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
20409 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
20410 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20411 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
20412 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
20413 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20415 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20416 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
20417 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20418 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
20420 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
20421 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20423 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
20424 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
20425 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
20426 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
20427 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
20428 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20430 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
20431 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
20432 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
20433 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20434 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
20435 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
20436 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20437 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
20438 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
20439 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20441 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20442 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
20443 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
20445 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
20446 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
20448 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20449 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
20450 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
20451 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
20452 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20454 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
20455 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
20456 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
20457 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
20460 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
20461 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
20462 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
20465 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20466 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
20467 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
20469 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
20470 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
20471 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
20472 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
20473 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
20474 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
20475 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
20477 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
20478 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
20481 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
20482 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
20483 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
20485 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
20486 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
20487 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
20490 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20491 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
20492 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
20493 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
20494 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
20495 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
20496 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
20497 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
20498 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
20500 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
20501 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
20503 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
20507 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
20508 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
20509 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
20510 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
20511 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
20512 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
20514 o Downgraded warnings:
20515 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
20516 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
20518 o Removed features:
20519 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
20520 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
20521 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
20522 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
20523 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
20527 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
20528 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20529 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
20530 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
20531 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
20532 (existing behavior).
20533 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
20534 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
20535 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
20536 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
20537 Closes ticket 14107.
20538 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
20539 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
20540 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
20541 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
20543 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
20544 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
20545 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
20548 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
20549 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
20550 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
20551 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
20552 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
20553 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
20555 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
20556 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
20557 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
20558 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
20560 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
20561 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
20562 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
20563 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
20564 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
20565 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
20567 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
20568 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
20569 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
20570 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
20571 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
20572 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
20573 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
20576 o Major features (hidden services):
20577 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
20578 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
20579 Closes ticket 13667.
20580 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
20581 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
20582 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
20583 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
20584 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
20585 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
20586 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
20587 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
20588 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
20589 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
20590 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
20592 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
20593 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
20594 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
20595 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
20596 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
20597 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
20600 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
20601 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
20602 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
20603 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
20604 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
20605 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
20607 o Directory authority changes:
20608 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
20609 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
20610 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
20612 o Major removed features:
20613 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
20614 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
20615 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
20616 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
20618 o Minor features (client):
20619 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
20620 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
20621 Resolves ticket 13315.
20623 o Minor features (controller):
20624 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
20625 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
20628 o Minor features (geoip):
20629 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20632 o Minor features (hidden services):
20633 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
20634 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
20635 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
20636 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
20637 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
20638 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
20640 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
20641 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
20642 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
20644 o Minor features (systemd):
20645 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
20646 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
20647 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
20648 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
20650 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
20651 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
20652 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
20653 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
20654 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
20657 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
20658 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
20659 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
20660 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
20661 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
20663 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
20664 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
20665 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
20668 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
20669 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
20670 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
20671 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
20672 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
20674 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
20675 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
20676 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20678 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20679 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
20680 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
20681 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
20682 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
20684 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
20685 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
20688 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
20689 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
20690 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
20691 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
20692 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
20693 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
20694 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
20695 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
20696 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20697 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
20698 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
20699 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
20700 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
20701 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
20704 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20705 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
20706 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
20707 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
20708 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
20709 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
20711 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20712 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
20713 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
20714 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
20716 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
20717 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
20719 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
20720 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
20721 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
20722 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
20725 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
20726 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
20727 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
20728 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
20729 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
20730 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
20732 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
20733 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
20734 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
20735 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
20736 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20737 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
20738 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
20739 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
20740 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
20741 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
20742 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
20743 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
20744 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
20745 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
20746 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
20747 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
20748 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
20749 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
20750 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
20751 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20752 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
20753 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
20754 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
20755 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
20756 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
20757 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
20758 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
20759 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20760 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
20761 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
20762 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
20763 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
20765 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
20766 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
20767 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
20768 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
20769 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20771 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20772 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
20773 with a function instead.
20774 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
20775 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
20776 Closes ticket 13172.
20777 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
20778 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
20779 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
20780 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
20781 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
20782 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
20783 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
20784 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
20785 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
20786 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
20787 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
20788 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
20792 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
20793 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
20794 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
20795 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
20796 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
20797 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
20798 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
20799 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
20800 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
20801 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
20802 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
20803 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
20806 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
20807 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
20808 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
20809 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
20810 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
20811 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
20813 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
20817 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
20818 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
20819 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
20820 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
20821 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
20822 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
20823 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
20824 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
20825 of introducing infinite download loops.
20827 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
20828 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
20829 with 0.2.5.x for now.
20831 o New compiler and system requirements:
20832 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
20833 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
20834 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
20835 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
20837 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
20838 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
20839 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
20840 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
20841 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
20842 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
20843 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
20844 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
20845 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
20847 o Removed platform support:
20848 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
20849 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
20850 Closes ticket 11446.
20852 o Major features (bridges):
20853 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
20854 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
20855 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
20858 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
20859 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
20860 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
20861 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
20864 o Major features (directory system):
20865 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
20866 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
20867 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
20868 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
20870 o Major features (sample torrc):
20871 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
20872 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
20873 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
20874 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
20875 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
20876 generally useful "sample torrc".
20878 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20879 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
20880 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20882 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
20883 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
20884 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
20885 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
20886 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20888 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
20889 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
20890 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
20891 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
20893 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
20894 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
20895 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
20896 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
20897 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
20898 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
20901 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
20902 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
20903 document. Implements feature 10427.
20905 o Minor features (client):
20906 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
20907 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
20908 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
20909 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
20911 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20912 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
20913 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
20914 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
20915 argument more than once.
20916 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
20917 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
20918 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
20919 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
20920 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
20921 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
20923 o Minor features (logging):
20924 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
20925 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
20926 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
20927 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
20928 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
20929 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
20930 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
20931 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
20932 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
20934 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
20935 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
20936 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
20937 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
20939 o Minor features (relay):
20940 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
20941 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
20942 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
20944 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
20945 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
20946 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
20947 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
20949 o Minor features (testing networks):
20950 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
20951 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
20952 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
20953 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
20954 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
20957 o Minor features (validation):
20958 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
20959 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
20960 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
20961 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
20962 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
20963 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
20964 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
20965 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
20967 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
20968 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
20969 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
20970 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20972 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
20973 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
20974 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
20975 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20977 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
20978 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
20979 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
20981 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
20982 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
20983 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
20985 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
20986 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20987 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
20988 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
20989 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20990 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
20991 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
20993 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20994 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
20995 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
20996 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
20997 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
20998 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20999 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
21000 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
21001 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
21003 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
21004 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
21005 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
21006 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
21007 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
21009 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
21010 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
21011 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
21013 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21014 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
21015 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
21016 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
21017 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
21019 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
21020 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
21021 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
21022 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21023 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
21024 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
21025 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21026 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
21027 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
21028 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
21029 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
21032 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
21033 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
21034 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
21035 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
21036 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21038 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21039 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
21040 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
21041 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
21042 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
21045 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
21046 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
21047 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21048 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
21049 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
21050 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
21052 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21053 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
21054 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
21055 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
21057 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
21058 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
21059 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
21060 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21062 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
21063 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
21064 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
21065 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
21068 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
21069 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
21070 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21073 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
21074 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21075 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
21076 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
21077 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
21080 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21081 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
21082 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
21084 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
21085 Resolves ticket 12205.
21086 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
21087 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
21088 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
21089 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
21091 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
21092 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
21093 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
21095 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
21096 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
21098 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
21099 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
21100 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
21101 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
21102 or_options_t structure.
21105 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
21106 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
21107 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
21108 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
21111 o Removed features:
21112 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
21113 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
21114 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
21115 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
21116 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
21117 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
21118 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
21119 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
21120 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
21122 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
21123 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
21125 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
21126 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
21127 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
21128 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
21129 anymore, and ignore it.
21132 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
21133 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
21134 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
21135 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
21136 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
21137 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
21138 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
21139 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
21140 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
21141 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
21142 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
21143 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
21145 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
21146 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
21147 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
21149 o Distribution (systemd):
21150 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
21151 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
21152 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
21153 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
21154 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
21156 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
21157 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
21159 o Removed features (directory authorities):
21160 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
21161 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
21162 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
21163 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
21164 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
21165 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
21166 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
21167 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
21168 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
21170 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
21171 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
21172 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
21173 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
21176 o Testing (test-network.sh):
21177 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
21178 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
21180 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
21182 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
21183 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
21184 Partially implements ticket 13161.
21187 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
21188 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21190 It adds several new security features, including improved
21191 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
21192 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
21193 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
21194 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
21195 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
21196 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
21197 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
21198 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
21199 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
21200 and features mentioned below.
21202 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
21203 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
21205 o Deprecated versions:
21206 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
21207 attention for some while.
21210 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
21211 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
21212 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
21213 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
21214 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
21215 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
21217 o Major security fixes:
21218 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
21219 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
21220 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
21222 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
21223 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
21224 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
21225 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
21228 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
21229 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
21230 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
21231 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21233 o Compilation fixes:
21234 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
21235 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
21236 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
21238 o Downgraded warnings:
21239 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
21240 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
21243 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
21244 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
21245 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
21246 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
21247 (which does affect Tor).
21249 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
21250 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
21251 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
21252 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
21254 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
21255 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
21256 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
21257 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
21260 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
21261 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
21262 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
21263 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
21264 the directory authorities.
21267 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
21268 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
21269 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
21270 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
21271 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
21272 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
21273 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
21274 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
21275 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
21276 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
21277 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
21278 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21280 o Directory authority changes:
21281 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21284 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
21285 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
21286 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
21287 the directory authorities.
21290 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
21291 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
21292 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
21293 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
21294 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
21295 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
21296 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
21297 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
21298 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
21299 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
21300 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
21301 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21303 o Directory authority changes:
21304 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
21306 o Minor features (geoip):
21307 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21311 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
21312 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
21313 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
21314 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
21315 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
21317 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
21318 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
21319 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
21320 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
21321 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
21322 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
21323 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
21324 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
21325 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
21326 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
21327 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
21328 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
21329 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
21330 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21331 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
21332 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
21334 o Major bugfixes (relay):
21335 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
21336 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21337 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
21338 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
21339 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
21340 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
21341 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21343 o Minor features (bridge):
21344 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
21345 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
21347 o Minor features (geoip):
21348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21351 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21352 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
21353 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
21354 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
21355 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
21356 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
21357 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21358 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
21359 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
21360 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
21361 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
21362 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
21363 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
21364 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
21365 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
21367 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
21368 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
21369 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
21370 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
21371 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
21373 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21374 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
21375 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21376 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
21377 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
21380 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21381 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
21382 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
21383 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
21384 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21385 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
21386 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
21387 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21388 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
21389 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
21390 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
21393 o Distribution (systemd):
21394 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
21395 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
21396 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
21397 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
21398 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
21399 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
21400 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
21401 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
21402 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
21406 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
21407 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
21409 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
21413 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
21414 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
21415 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
21416 us closer to a release candidate.
21418 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
21419 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
21420 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
21421 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
21422 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
21424 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
21425 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
21426 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
21427 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
21428 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
21429 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
21430 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
21431 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
21432 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
21436 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
21437 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
21438 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
21439 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
21440 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
21441 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
21442 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
21443 to build circuits".
21446 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
21447 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
21448 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
21449 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
21450 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
21451 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
21452 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
21453 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21455 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
21457 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
21458 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
21459 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
21460 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
21461 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
21462 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
21463 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
21464 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
21465 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
21466 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21469 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
21470 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
21471 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
21472 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
21474 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
21475 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
21476 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
21479 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
21480 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
21481 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
21482 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
21485 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
21486 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
21487 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
21488 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
21489 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
21490 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
21491 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
21492 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
21493 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
21494 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
21497 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
21498 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
21499 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
21500 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
21501 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
21502 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
21503 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
21504 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
21508 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
21509 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
21510 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
21511 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
21512 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
21513 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
21514 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
21515 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
21516 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21517 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
21518 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
21519 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
21520 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
21523 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21527 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
21528 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
21529 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
21530 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
21531 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
21532 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
21535 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
21536 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
21537 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
21538 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
21539 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
21540 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
21541 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
21542 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
21543 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
21544 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
21545 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
21546 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
21547 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21549 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
21550 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
21551 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
21552 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
21555 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
21556 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
21557 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
21559 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
21560 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
21561 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
21562 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
21563 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
21564 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
21565 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
21566 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
21567 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
21568 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
21569 router's identity is not forgeable.
21571 o Major bugfixes (relay):
21572 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
21573 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
21574 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
21575 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
21576 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
21577 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
21578 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
21579 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
21580 bugfix on every version of Tor.
21582 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
21583 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
21584 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
21585 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
21588 o Minor features (diagnostic):
21589 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
21590 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
21591 help diagnose bug 7164.
21592 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
21593 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
21594 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
21595 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
21596 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
21598 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
21599 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
21600 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
21601 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
21602 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
21603 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
21604 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
21606 o Minor features (security, memory management):
21607 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
21608 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
21609 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
21610 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
21611 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
21612 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
21614 o Minor features (security):
21615 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
21616 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
21617 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
21618 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
21620 o Minor features (build):
21621 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
21622 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
21623 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
21625 o Minor features (other):
21626 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
21629 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
21630 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
21631 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
21632 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
21633 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21635 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
21636 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
21637 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
21638 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
21639 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
21640 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
21641 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
21642 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
21643 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
21644 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
21645 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
21646 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
21648 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21649 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
21650 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21651 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
21652 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
21653 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
21654 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
21655 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
21656 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
21657 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
21658 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21659 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
21660 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
21661 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
21662 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
21663 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
21664 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
21665 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
21668 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
21669 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
21670 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
21671 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
21672 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
21673 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
21674 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
21676 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
21677 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
21678 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21679 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
21680 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21681 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
21682 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21683 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
21684 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
21686 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
21687 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
21689 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
21690 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
21692 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
21693 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
21694 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
21695 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
21696 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
21697 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21698 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
21699 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
21700 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
21702 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
21703 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
21704 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
21705 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
21706 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
21707 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21708 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
21709 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
21710 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21711 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
21712 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
21713 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21714 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
21715 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
21716 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
21717 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
21718 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
21719 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21721 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21722 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
21723 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
21724 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
21725 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
21726 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21727 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
21728 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
21729 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
21732 o Minor bugfixes (client):
21733 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
21734 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
21735 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
21736 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21738 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21739 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
21740 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
21741 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
21743 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
21744 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
21745 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
21746 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21747 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
21748 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
21749 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
21750 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
21752 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
21753 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
21754 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
21755 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
21758 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
21759 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
21760 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
21761 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
21762 versions. Found by "skruffy".
21763 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
21764 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
21765 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
21768 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
21769 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
21770 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
21771 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
21774 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
21775 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
21776 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
21777 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
21779 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
21780 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
21781 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
21783 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
21784 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
21785 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
21787 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
21788 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
21789 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21790 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
21791 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
21795 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
21796 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
21797 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
21798 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
21801 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
21802 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
21803 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
21804 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
21806 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
21807 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
21809 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
21810 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
21811 caches don't get confused.
21814 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
21815 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
21816 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
21817 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
21818 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
21821 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
21822 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
21823 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
21824 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
21825 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
21826 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
21830 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
21831 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
21832 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
21833 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
21834 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
21835 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
21836 of RAM, and several others.
21838 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21839 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
21840 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
21841 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
21842 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
21844 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
21845 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
21846 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
21847 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
21850 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21851 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
21852 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
21853 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
21854 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
21855 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
21856 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21857 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
21858 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
21859 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
21860 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
21861 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
21862 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
21863 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
21864 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
21865 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
21866 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
21867 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
21868 Resolves ticket 11438.
21870 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
21871 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
21872 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
21873 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
21874 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
21875 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
21877 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21878 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
21879 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21881 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21882 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
21883 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21885 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21886 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
21887 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
21888 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21890 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21891 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
21892 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
21894 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21895 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
21896 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
21899 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
21900 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
21901 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
21902 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
21905 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21906 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
21907 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
21908 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
21910 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21911 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
21912 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
21913 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
21915 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
21916 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
21917 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
21921 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
21922 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
21923 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
21924 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
21925 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
21926 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
21927 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
21928 the Linux sandbox code.
21930 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
21931 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
21932 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
21934 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
21935 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
21937 o Major features (security):
21938 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
21939 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
21940 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
21941 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
21942 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
21943 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
21944 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
21945 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
21947 o Major features (relay performance):
21948 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
21949 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
21950 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
21951 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
21952 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
21953 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
21954 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
21955 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
21956 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
21957 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
21959 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
21960 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
21961 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
21962 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
21963 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
21964 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
21965 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
21967 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
21968 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
21970 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
21971 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
21972 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
21973 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
21974 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
21975 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
21976 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
21977 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
21978 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
21979 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
21980 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
21981 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
21982 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
21983 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
21984 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
21985 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
21986 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
21987 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
21988 Resolves ticket 11438.
21990 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
21991 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
21992 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
21993 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21995 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
21996 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
21997 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
21998 10267; patch from "yurivict".
21999 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
22000 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
22001 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
22002 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
22003 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
22004 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
22006 o Minor features (security):
22007 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
22008 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
22009 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
22010 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
22013 o Minor features (log verbosity):
22014 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
22015 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
22016 Resolves ticket 5286.
22017 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
22018 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
22019 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
22020 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
22021 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
22022 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
22023 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
22024 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
22025 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
22027 o Minor features (relay):
22028 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
22029 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
22030 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
22032 o Minor features (controller):
22033 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
22034 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
22036 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
22037 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
22038 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
22040 o Minor features (bridge client):
22041 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
22042 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
22043 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
22045 o Minor features (diagnostic):
22046 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
22047 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
22048 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
22049 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
22050 still referenced by a live node_t object.
22052 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
22053 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
22054 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
22055 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
22057 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
22058 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
22059 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
22060 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
22063 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
22064 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
22065 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22067 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
22068 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
22069 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
22070 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22071 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
22072 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
22073 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22075 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
22076 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
22077 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
22078 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22079 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
22080 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
22081 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22082 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
22083 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
22084 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
22085 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22086 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
22087 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
22090 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
22091 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
22092 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
22093 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
22094 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
22096 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
22097 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
22098 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
22101 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22102 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
22103 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
22105 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
22106 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
22107 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22109 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22110 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
22111 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
22112 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22114 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
22115 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
22116 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
22117 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
22118 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
22120 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
22121 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
22122 early. Fixes bug 10081.
22124 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
22125 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
22126 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22127 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
22128 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22129 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
22130 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
22131 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
22133 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
22134 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
22135 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
22136 should never have affected anyone in practice.
22138 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
22139 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
22140 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22142 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
22143 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
22144 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
22145 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
22146 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
22147 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
22148 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
22149 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
22150 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
22151 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
22152 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
22153 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
22154 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
22155 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
22157 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
22158 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
22159 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
22160 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
22161 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
22162 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
22163 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
22164 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
22168 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
22169 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
22170 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
22171 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22172 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
22173 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22174 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
22175 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
22177 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
22179 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22180 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
22181 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
22182 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
22183 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
22186 o Deprecated versions:
22187 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
22188 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
22189 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
22190 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
22193 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
22194 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
22195 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
22196 Patch from Dana Koch.
22199 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
22200 Resolves ticket 11070.
22203 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
22204 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
22205 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
22206 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
22207 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
22210 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
22211 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
22213 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
22214 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
22215 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
22216 streams attached to each circuit.
22218 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
22219 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
22220 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
22221 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
22222 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
22223 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
22224 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
22225 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
22226 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
22227 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
22228 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
22229 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
22230 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
22232 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
22233 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
22234 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
22236 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
22237 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
22238 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
22239 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
22240 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
22241 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
22242 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
22243 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
22244 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
22246 o Minor features (other):
22247 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
22248 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
22249 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
22250 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
22251 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
22252 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
22253 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
22254 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
22255 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22258 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
22259 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
22260 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
22261 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
22262 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
22263 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
22264 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
22265 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
22267 o Minor bugfixes (client):
22268 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
22269 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
22270 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
22271 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22272 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
22273 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
22274 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
22276 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
22277 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
22278 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
22279 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
22280 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
22281 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22282 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
22283 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
22284 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
22285 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
22286 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
22287 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22289 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
22290 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
22291 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22292 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
22293 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
22294 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
22295 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
22296 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
22297 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22298 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
22299 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
22300 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
22301 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
22302 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
22304 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
22305 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
22307 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
22308 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
22309 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
22310 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
22311 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
22312 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
22313 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22314 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
22315 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
22316 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
22317 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
22318 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
22319 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
22320 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
22322 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
22323 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
22324 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
22325 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
22328 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
22329 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
22330 the rest of bug 10841.
22333 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
22334 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
22335 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
22336 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
22337 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
22338 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
22339 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
22340 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
22341 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
22342 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
22343 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
22344 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22345 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
22346 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
22347 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
22349 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
22350 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
22351 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
22353 o Test infrastructure:
22354 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
22355 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
22356 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
22357 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
22360 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
22361 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
22362 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
22363 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
22365 o Major features (client security):
22366 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
22367 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
22368 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
22369 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
22370 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
22371 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
22374 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
22375 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
22376 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
22377 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22379 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22380 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
22381 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
22382 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
22383 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
22386 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
22387 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
22389 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
22390 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
22391 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
22392 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
22393 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
22394 GeoLite2 Country database.
22397 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
22398 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
22399 bugfix on every released Tor.
22400 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
22401 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
22402 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
22403 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22404 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
22405 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
22406 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
22407 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
22408 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
22409 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22410 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
22411 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
22412 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22413 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
22414 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22416 o Documentation fixes:
22417 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
22418 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22421 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
22422 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
22423 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
22424 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
22425 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
22426 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
22427 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
22428 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
22430 o Major features (client security):
22431 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
22432 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
22433 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
22434 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
22435 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
22436 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
22437 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
22438 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
22439 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
22440 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
22441 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
22442 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
22444 o Major features (bridges):
22445 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
22446 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
22447 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
22448 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
22449 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
22450 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
22451 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
22452 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
22455 o Major features (other):
22456 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
22457 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
22458 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
22459 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
22460 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
22461 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
22462 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
22463 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
22464 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
22465 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
22466 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
22467 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
22470 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
22471 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
22472 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
22473 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
22474 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
22475 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
22476 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22478 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
22479 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
22480 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
22481 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
22482 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
22483 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
22484 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
22485 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
22486 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
22488 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
22489 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22490 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
22491 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
22492 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
22493 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
22495 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22496 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
22497 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
22498 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
22499 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
22500 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
22503 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
22504 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
22505 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
22506 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
22507 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
22508 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
22509 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
22511 o Minor features (security):
22512 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
22513 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
22516 o Minor features (config options and command line):
22517 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
22518 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
22519 Implements ticket 10060.
22520 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
22521 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
22522 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
22524 o Minor features (controller):
22525 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
22526 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
22527 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
22528 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
22529 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
22532 o Minor features (build):
22533 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
22534 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
22535 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
22536 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
22537 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
22538 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
22539 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
22541 o Minor features (testing):
22542 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
22543 the unit test scripts.
22544 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
22545 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
22546 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
22547 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
22549 o Minor features (log messages):
22550 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
22551 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
22552 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
22553 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
22554 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
22555 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
22556 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
22557 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
22558 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
22559 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22561 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22562 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
22563 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
22564 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
22565 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
22566 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
22567 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
22568 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
22569 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
22570 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22572 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22573 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
22574 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
22575 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
22578 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22579 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
22580 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
22581 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
22582 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22584 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
22585 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
22586 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
22587 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
22588 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
22589 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
22590 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
22592 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
22593 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
22594 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
22595 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
22596 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
22597 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
22598 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22599 Reported by "mr-4".
22600 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
22601 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
22602 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
22603 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
22605 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
22606 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
22607 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
22608 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
22609 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
22610 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
22611 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
22612 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
22613 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
22614 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
22615 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22617 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22618 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
22619 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
22620 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
22621 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
22622 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
22623 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
22624 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
22625 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
22626 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
22628 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
22629 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
22630 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
22631 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
22634 o Minor bugfixes (build):
22635 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
22636 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
22637 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
22638 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
22639 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
22641 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
22642 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22644 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22645 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
22646 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
22647 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22649 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
22650 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
22651 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
22652 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
22653 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
22654 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
22655 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
22656 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22657 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
22658 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
22659 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
22660 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
22661 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
22662 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
22664 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
22665 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
22666 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22667 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
22668 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
22669 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
22671 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22672 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
22673 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22674 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
22675 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
22676 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
22677 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
22678 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
22679 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
22680 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22681 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
22682 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22684 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22685 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
22686 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
22687 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
22688 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
22689 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22690 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
22691 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
22692 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22693 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
22694 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
22695 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
22696 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
22697 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
22698 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
22699 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
22702 o Removed code and features:
22703 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
22704 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
22705 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
22706 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
22707 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
22708 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
22710 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
22711 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
22712 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
22713 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
22714 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
22715 part of a fix for bug 10841.
22717 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22718 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
22719 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
22720 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
22721 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
22722 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
22723 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
22724 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
22725 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
22726 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
22727 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
22730 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
22731 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
22732 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
22733 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
22734 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
22736 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
22737 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
22738 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
22739 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
22740 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
22741 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
22742 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
22745 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
22746 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
22747 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
22750 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
22751 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
22752 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
22753 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
22754 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
22755 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
22756 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
22758 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
22759 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
22762 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
22763 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
22764 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
22765 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
22766 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
22767 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
22768 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
22769 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
22771 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
22772 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22773 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
22774 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
22775 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
22776 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
22779 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
22780 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22781 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
22782 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
22783 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
22786 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
22787 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
22788 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
22789 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
22790 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
22791 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
22792 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
22793 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
22795 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
22796 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
22797 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
22798 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
22799 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
22800 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
22801 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
22802 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
22803 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
22804 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
22805 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
22806 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
22807 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
22808 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
22809 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
22810 security, and privacy fixes.
22813 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
22814 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
22815 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
22816 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
22819 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
22820 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
22821 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
22822 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
22823 them to solve bug 6033.)
22826 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
22827 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
22828 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
22829 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
22830 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
22831 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22832 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
22833 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
22835 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
22836 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
22837 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
22838 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22840 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
22841 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
22842 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22843 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
22844 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
22845 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
22846 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
22847 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
22848 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
22849 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
22850 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
22851 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
22853 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
22854 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
22855 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
22856 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
22857 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
22858 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22859 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
22860 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
22861 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22862 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
22863 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
22864 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
22865 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
22866 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
22867 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
22868 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
22871 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
22872 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
22873 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
22874 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
22875 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
22876 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
22877 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
22878 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
22879 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
22880 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
22881 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
22882 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
22883 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
22884 Implements part of proposal 222.
22886 o Minor features (other):
22887 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
22888 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
22889 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
22890 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
22891 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
22892 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
22893 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
22894 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
22895 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22897 o Documentation fixes:
22898 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
22899 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
22900 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
22901 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
22902 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
22903 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
22906 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
22907 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
22908 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
22909 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
22910 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
22911 release of the new branch.
22913 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
22914 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
22915 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
22917 o Major features (security):
22918 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
22919 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
22920 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
22921 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
22922 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
22923 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
22924 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
22925 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
22926 Google Summer of Code.
22927 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
22928 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
22929 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
22930 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
22931 them to solve bug 6033.)
22933 o Major features (other):
22934 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
22935 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
22936 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
22937 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
22938 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
22940 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
22941 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
22942 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
22943 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
22944 Implements ticket 8530.
22945 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
22946 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
22949 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
22950 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
22951 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
22952 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
22953 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
22954 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22955 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
22956 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
22957 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22958 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
22959 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
22960 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
22961 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
22964 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
22965 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
22966 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
22967 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
22968 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
22969 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
22970 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
22971 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
22972 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
22973 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
22977 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
22978 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
22979 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
22980 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
22981 invoking the other functions it calls.
22982 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
22983 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
22984 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
22985 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
22987 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
22988 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
22989 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
22990 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
22991 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
22992 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
22993 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
22994 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
22995 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
22996 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
22997 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
22998 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
22999 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
23000 Implements part of proposal 222.
23002 o Minor features (config options):
23003 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
23004 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
23005 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
23006 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
23007 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
23008 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
23009 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
23010 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
23011 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
23012 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
23013 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
23014 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
23015 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
23016 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
23017 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
23018 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
23019 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
23022 o Minor features (build):
23023 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
23024 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
23025 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
23026 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
23027 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
23030 o Minor features (other):
23031 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
23032 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
23033 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
23034 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
23035 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
23036 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
23037 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
23038 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
23039 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
23040 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
23041 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
23042 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
23043 Closes ticket 8109.
23044 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23047 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
23048 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
23049 bugfix on every released Tor.
23050 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
23051 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
23052 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
23053 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
23054 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
23055 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
23057 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
23058 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
23059 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
23060 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23061 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
23062 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
23063 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
23064 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
23066 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
23067 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
23068 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
23069 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
23070 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
23072 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
23073 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23075 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
23076 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
23077 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
23079 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
23080 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
23081 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
23082 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
23083 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23085 o Minor code improvements:
23086 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
23087 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
23089 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
23090 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
23091 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
23092 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
23093 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
23095 o Removed features:
23096 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
23097 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
23098 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
23099 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
23101 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23102 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
23103 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
23104 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
23105 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
23106 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
23107 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
23108 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
23109 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
23110 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
23111 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
23112 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
23113 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
23114 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
23115 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
23116 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
23119 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
23120 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23121 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
23122 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
23123 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
23124 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
23125 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
23128 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
23129 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
23130 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
23131 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
23132 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
23133 Implements ticket 9574.
23136 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
23137 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
23138 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23139 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
23140 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
23141 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
23142 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
23143 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
23144 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23145 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
23146 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
23147 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
23151 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
23152 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
23153 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
23154 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
23156 o Minor fixes (config options):
23157 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
23158 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
23159 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
23160 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
23161 message is logged at notice, not at info.
23162 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
23163 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
23164 or we just won't work.)
23167 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
23168 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
23169 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
23170 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23173 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
23174 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23175 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
23178 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
23179 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
23180 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23181 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
23182 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23183 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
23184 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
23186 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
23187 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23188 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
23189 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
23192 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
23193 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
23194 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23195 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
23196 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
23197 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
23198 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
23199 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
23200 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
23201 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
23202 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23203 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
23204 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23207 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23210 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
23211 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
23212 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
23213 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
23216 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
23217 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
23218 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23221 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
23222 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
23223 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
23226 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
23227 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
23228 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23231 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
23232 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
23233 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
23234 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
23235 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
23236 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
23238 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
23239 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
23240 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
23241 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
23242 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
23243 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
23245 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
23246 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
23247 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23250 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
23251 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
23252 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
23253 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
23254 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
23256 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
23257 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
23258 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
23259 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
23260 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
23261 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
23262 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
23264 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
23265 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
23266 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
23268 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
23269 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
23273 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
23274 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
23275 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
23277 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
23278 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
23279 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
23280 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
23281 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
23282 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
23284 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
23285 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
23286 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
23287 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
23288 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
23289 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
23290 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
23293 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
23294 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
23295 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
23296 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
23297 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
23298 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
23299 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23300 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
23301 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23302 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
23303 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
23304 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23305 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
23306 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
23308 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
23309 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
23310 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
23311 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
23314 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23315 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
23316 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
23317 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
23318 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
23319 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
23321 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
23322 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
23326 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
23327 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
23328 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
23329 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
23330 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
23331 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
23332 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23334 o Removed documentation:
23335 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
23336 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
23338 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23339 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
23340 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
23341 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
23344 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
23345 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
23346 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
23347 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
23348 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
23349 variety of other issues.
23352 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
23353 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
23354 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
23355 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
23356 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
23357 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
23358 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
23359 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
23361 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
23362 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
23363 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
23365 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
23366 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
23367 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
23368 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
23369 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
23370 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
23371 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23373 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
23374 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
23375 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
23376 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
23377 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
23378 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
23379 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
23380 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
23381 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
23382 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
23383 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
23384 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
23385 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23386 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
23387 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
23388 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
23389 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
23390 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
23391 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
23392 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
23393 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23395 o Major bugfixes (other):
23396 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
23397 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
23398 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
23399 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23402 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
23403 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
23404 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
23405 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
23407 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
23408 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
23410 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23412 o Minor features (build):
23413 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
23414 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
23416 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
23417 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
23419 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
23420 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
23421 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
23424 o Minor bugfixes (build):
23425 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
23426 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23427 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23428 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
23429 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
23430 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
23431 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
23432 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
23433 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23434 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
23435 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
23436 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
23437 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
23440 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
23441 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
23442 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
23443 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
23444 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
23445 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
23446 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
23447 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
23448 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
23449 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
23450 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
23451 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
23452 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
23453 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23454 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23456 o Minor bugfixes (other):
23457 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
23458 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23459 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
23460 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
23461 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
23462 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
23463 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23464 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
23465 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
23466 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
23467 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
23468 Should help resolve bug 8235.
23469 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
23470 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
23471 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
23472 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23474 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
23475 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
23476 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
23477 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
23478 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
23479 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
23480 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
23481 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
23484 o Minor bugfixes (config):
23485 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
23486 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
23488 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
23489 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
23490 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23491 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
23492 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
23493 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
23494 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23495 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
23496 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
23497 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23498 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
23499 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
23500 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23501 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
23502 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
23505 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
23506 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
23507 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
23508 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
23509 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
23510 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
23511 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
23512 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
23514 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
23515 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
23516 or at least make it more diagnosable.
23517 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
23518 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
23519 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
23520 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23522 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
23523 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
23524 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
23525 the relaxed timeout log message.
23526 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
23527 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
23528 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
23530 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
23531 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
23532 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23533 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
23534 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23535 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
23536 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
23539 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
23540 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
23541 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
23542 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
23543 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23544 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
23545 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23546 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
23547 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
23548 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
23549 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
23550 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
23551 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23552 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
23553 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
23554 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
23555 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
23557 o Documentation fixes:
23558 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
23559 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
23560 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
23561 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
23562 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
23563 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
23564 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
23565 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
23568 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
23569 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
23573 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
23574 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
23575 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
23576 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
23578 o Major features (directory authorities):
23579 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
23580 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
23581 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
23582 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
23583 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
23584 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
23585 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
23586 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
23587 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
23588 Implements ticket 8151.
23590 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23591 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
23592 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
23593 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
23594 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
23596 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23597 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
23598 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
23599 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
23600 whether authentication information is present, causing all
23601 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
23602 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
23604 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
23605 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
23606 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
23607 bugs 1913 and 1992.
23608 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
23609 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
23610 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
23611 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
23612 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
23613 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
23614 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
23615 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
23616 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
23617 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
23618 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
23619 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
23620 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
23621 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
23622 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
23623 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
23624 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
23625 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
23628 o Minor features (portability):
23629 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
23630 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23631 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
23632 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
23633 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
23634 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
23635 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
23636 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23638 o Minor features (other):
23639 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
23640 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
23641 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
23642 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
23643 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
23644 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
23645 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
23646 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
23648 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23650 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23651 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
23652 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
23653 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
23654 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
23655 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23656 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
23657 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
23658 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
23659 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
23661 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
23662 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
23663 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
23664 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23666 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23667 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
23668 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
23669 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
23670 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
23671 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
23672 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
23674 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
23675 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
23676 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
23677 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
23678 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
23680 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
23681 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
23682 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
23683 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
23685 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23686 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
23687 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
23690 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
23691 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
23692 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
23693 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
23695 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
23696 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
23697 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
23698 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23700 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
23701 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
23702 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
23703 this is CID 718634.
23704 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
23705 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
23706 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
23707 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
23709 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
23710 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
23711 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23712 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
23713 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
23714 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
23715 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23717 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23718 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
23722 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
23723 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
23724 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
23725 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
23726 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
23729 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
23730 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
23731 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
23732 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
23734 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
23735 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
23736 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
23740 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
23741 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
23742 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
23743 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
23744 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
23745 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
23746 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
23747 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
23748 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
23749 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23750 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
23751 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
23752 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
23755 o Major features (relay):
23756 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
23757 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
23758 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
23759 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
23760 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
23761 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
23762 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
23764 o Major features (portability):
23765 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
23766 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
23767 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
23768 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
23769 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23772 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
23773 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
23774 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
23775 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
23776 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
23777 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
23779 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
23780 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
23781 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
23782 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
23783 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
23784 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
23785 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
23786 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
23788 o Minor features (path selection):
23789 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
23790 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
23791 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
23792 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
23793 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
23794 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
23795 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
23796 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
23797 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
23798 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
23799 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
23800 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
23801 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
23802 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
23803 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
23804 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
23805 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
23806 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
23807 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
23809 o Minor features (log messages):
23810 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
23811 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
23812 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
23813 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
23816 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
23817 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
23818 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
23819 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
23820 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
23821 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
23822 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
23823 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
23824 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
23825 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23826 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
23827 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23829 o Build improvements:
23830 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
23831 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
23832 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
23833 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
23834 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
23835 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
23836 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
23837 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
23838 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
23839 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
23840 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
23841 than to perform erroneously.
23843 o Removed features:
23844 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
23845 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
23846 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
23848 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
23849 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
23850 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
23853 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23854 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
23856 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
23857 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
23861 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
23862 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
23863 work more robustly.
23866 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
23867 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
23868 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
23872 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
23873 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
23874 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
23875 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
23878 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
23879 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
23880 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
23881 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
23882 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
23883 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
23884 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
23885 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
23886 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
23887 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
23888 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
23889 closes ticket 7199.
23891 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
23892 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
23893 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
23894 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
23895 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
23896 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
23897 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
23898 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
23899 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
23900 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
23901 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
23903 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
23904 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
23905 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
23907 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
23908 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
23909 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
23911 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
23913 o Major features (better link encryption):
23914 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
23915 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
23916 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
23917 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
23918 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
23919 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
23922 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
23923 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
23924 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
23925 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
23926 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
23927 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
23928 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
23930 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
23931 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
23932 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
23933 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
23935 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
23938 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
23939 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
23940 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23943 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
23944 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
23945 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
23946 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
23947 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
23948 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
23949 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
23950 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
23951 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23953 o Minor features (testing):
23954 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
23955 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
23956 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
23958 o Minor features (path bias detection):
23959 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
23960 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
23961 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
23962 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
23963 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
23964 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
23965 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
23966 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
23967 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
23968 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
23969 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
23970 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
23971 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
23972 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
23973 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
23974 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
23975 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
23976 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
23977 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
23978 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
23979 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
23980 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
23981 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
23982 detection capability loss.
23984 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
23985 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
23986 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
23987 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
23988 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23989 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
23990 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
23991 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
23994 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
23995 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
23996 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
23997 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
23998 and the different handshakes it supports.
23999 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
24000 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
24001 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
24002 any encoding is overkill.
24005 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
24006 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
24007 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
24008 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
24009 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
24010 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
24011 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
24012 and fixes a variety of other issues.
24014 o Major features (client resilience):
24015 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
24016 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
24017 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
24018 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
24019 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
24020 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
24021 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
24022 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
24023 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
24024 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
24025 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
24026 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
24027 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
24028 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
24029 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
24031 o Major features (IPv6):
24032 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
24033 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
24034 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
24035 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
24036 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
24037 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
24038 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
24039 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
24041 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
24042 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
24044 o Major features (geoip database):
24045 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
24046 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
24047 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
24048 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
24049 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
24050 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
24051 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
24052 Country database, as modified above.
24054 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
24055 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
24056 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
24057 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
24058 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
24059 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
24060 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
24061 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
24062 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
24063 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
24064 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
24065 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
24066 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
24067 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
24068 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
24069 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
24070 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
24073 o Major bugfixes (other):
24074 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
24075 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
24076 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
24077 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
24078 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
24079 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
24080 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
24081 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
24083 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
24084 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
24087 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
24088 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
24089 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
24090 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
24091 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
24092 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
24093 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
24094 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
24096 o Minor features (IPv6):
24097 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
24098 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
24099 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
24100 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
24101 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
24102 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
24103 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
24104 connect to the wrong addresses.
24105 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
24106 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
24107 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
24108 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
24112 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
24113 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
24114 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
24115 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
24116 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
24117 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
24118 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
24120 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
24121 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
24122 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
24125 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
24126 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
24128 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24129 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
24130 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
24131 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
24132 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
24135 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
24136 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
24137 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
24138 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
24139 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
24140 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
24141 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
24142 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
24144 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
24145 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
24146 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
24147 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
24148 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
24149 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
24150 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
24151 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
24152 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
24153 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
24154 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
24157 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
24158 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
24159 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
24160 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
24161 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
24162 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
24163 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
24164 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
24165 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
24166 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
24169 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
24170 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
24174 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
24175 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
24176 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
24177 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
24180 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
24181 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
24183 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
24184 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
24185 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
24186 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
24187 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
24188 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
24189 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
24190 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
24191 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
24192 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
24195 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
24197 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
24198 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
24199 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
24200 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
24201 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
24204 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
24205 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
24206 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24207 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
24208 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
24210 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
24211 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
24212 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
24213 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
24214 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
24215 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
24216 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
24218 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
24219 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24220 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
24221 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
24222 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
24223 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24224 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
24225 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24227 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24228 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
24229 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
24230 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
24231 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
24232 present the same extensions.)
24235 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
24236 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
24237 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
24238 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
24239 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
24241 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
24242 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
24243 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
24244 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
24246 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
24247 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
24248 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
24249 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24251 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
24252 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
24253 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
24254 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
24255 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
24256 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
24257 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
24258 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
24259 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24261 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
24262 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
24263 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
24264 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
24265 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24268 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
24269 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
24270 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
24272 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24273 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
24275 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
24276 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
24280 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
24281 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
24282 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
24283 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
24286 o Major bugfixes (security):
24287 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
24288 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
24289 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
24291 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
24292 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
24293 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
24294 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24297 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
24298 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
24299 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
24300 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
24301 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
24302 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
24303 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
24304 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24307 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
24308 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
24309 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
24310 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24313 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
24314 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
24315 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
24316 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
24317 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
24318 scheduling algorithms.
24320 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
24321 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
24322 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
24324 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
24325 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
24326 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
24327 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
24328 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
24329 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
24330 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
24331 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
24332 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
24333 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
24334 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
24336 o Internal abstraction features:
24337 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
24338 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
24339 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
24340 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
24341 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
24342 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
24343 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
24344 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
24345 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
24346 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
24347 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
24348 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
24349 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
24350 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
24351 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
24352 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
24353 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
24355 o Required libraries:
24356 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
24357 strongly recommended.
24360 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
24361 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
24362 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
24363 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
24364 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
24365 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
24366 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
24367 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
24368 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
24370 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
24371 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
24372 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
24373 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
24374 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
24375 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
24376 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
24377 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24378 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
24379 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
24380 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
24381 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
24382 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
24383 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
24384 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24387 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
24388 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
24389 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
24390 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
24391 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
24392 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
24393 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
24394 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
24395 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
24396 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
24397 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
24398 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
24399 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
24400 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
24401 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24402 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
24403 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
24404 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
24405 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
24407 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
24408 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
24409 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
24410 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
24411 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
24412 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
24413 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
24416 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
24417 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
24418 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
24419 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
24421 o New directory authorities:
24422 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
24423 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
24425 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
24426 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
24427 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
24428 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
24429 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
24430 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
24431 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
24432 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
24433 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
24434 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
24435 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
24438 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
24439 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
24440 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
24442 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
24443 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
24444 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
24445 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24446 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
24447 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
24448 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24449 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
24450 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
24452 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24453 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
24454 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
24455 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
24456 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
24457 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
24458 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
24459 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
24460 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
24461 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
24462 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
24463 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
24464 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24465 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
24466 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
24467 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
24468 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
24469 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
24471 o Documentation fixes:
24472 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
24475 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
24476 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
24477 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
24478 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
24481 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
24482 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
24483 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24486 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
24487 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
24488 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
24489 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
24490 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
24491 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
24492 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
24493 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
24495 o Security features:
24496 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
24497 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
24498 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
24499 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
24500 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
24501 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
24502 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
24503 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
24504 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
24508 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
24509 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
24510 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
24513 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
24514 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
24515 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
24516 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
24517 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24518 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
24519 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
24520 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
24521 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
24522 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
24523 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24524 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
24525 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
24526 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
24528 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
24529 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24530 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
24531 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
24532 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24534 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
24535 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
24536 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
24537 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24538 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
24539 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
24540 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24541 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
24542 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
24543 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
24544 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
24545 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
24546 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
24547 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24548 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
24549 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
24550 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
24551 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
24552 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
24553 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
24555 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24556 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
24557 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
24558 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
24559 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
24560 testable, and a little less fragile too.
24561 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
24562 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
24564 o Documentation fixes:
24565 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
24566 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
24570 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
24571 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
24575 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
24576 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
24577 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24580 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
24581 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
24585 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
24586 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
24590 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
24591 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
24592 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24593 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
24594 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
24595 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
24596 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
24600 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
24601 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
24602 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
24603 log messages less noisy.
24606 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
24607 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
24611 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
24612 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
24613 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
24614 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
24615 last time we raised it).
24618 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
24619 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
24621 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
24622 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
24623 part of ticket 6736.
24624 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
24625 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
24626 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
24630 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
24631 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
24632 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
24633 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
24634 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
24636 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
24637 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
24638 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
24639 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
24640 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24641 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
24642 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
24643 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24644 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
24645 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24646 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
24647 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
24649 o Removed features:
24650 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
24651 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
24652 bunch of compatibility code.
24654 o Code refactoring:
24655 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
24656 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
24657 the ORPort and the DirPort.
24660 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
24661 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
24662 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
24663 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
24665 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24666 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24667 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
24669 o Major features (bridges):
24670 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
24671 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
24672 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
24675 o Major features (IPv6):
24676 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
24677 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
24678 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
24679 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
24680 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
24681 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
24682 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
24683 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
24684 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
24686 o Major features (build):
24687 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
24688 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
24689 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
24690 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
24691 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
24692 fixes by Jim Meyering.
24693 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
24694 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
24695 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
24697 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
24698 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
24699 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
24700 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
24701 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
24702 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
24703 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
24704 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
24705 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
24706 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
24707 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
24709 o Minor features (streamlining);
24710 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
24711 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
24713 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
24714 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
24715 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
24716 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
24717 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
24718 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24720 o Minor features (controller):
24721 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
24723 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
24724 Implements ticket 4971.
24726 o Minor features (IPv6):
24727 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
24728 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
24729 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
24730 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
24731 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
24733 o Minor features (log messages):
24734 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
24735 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
24736 Resolves ticket 6758.
24737 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
24738 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
24739 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
24740 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24741 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
24742 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
24743 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
24745 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
24746 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
24747 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
24748 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
24749 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
24752 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24753 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
24754 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
24755 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
24756 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
24758 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
24759 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
24760 Implements ticket 5529.
24761 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
24762 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
24763 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
24764 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
24765 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
24766 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
24767 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
24768 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
24769 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
24770 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
24772 o New requirements:
24773 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
24774 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
24775 from a source distribution.)
24778 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
24779 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24780 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
24781 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
24782 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
24783 and cleans up other smaller issues.
24785 o Major bugfixes (security):
24786 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
24787 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
24788 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
24789 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
24790 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
24791 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
24792 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
24793 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
24794 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
24795 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
24796 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
24797 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
24798 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
24799 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
24800 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
24801 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
24805 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
24806 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
24807 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
24808 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24809 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
24810 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
24811 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
24812 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
24813 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
24814 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24817 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
24818 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
24819 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
24820 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
24821 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
24822 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
24823 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
24824 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
24825 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
24826 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
24827 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
24829 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
24830 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
24831 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
24833 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
24834 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
24835 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
24836 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
24837 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
24838 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
24839 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
24840 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
24841 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24842 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
24843 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24844 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
24845 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
24846 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
24849 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24850 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
24851 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
24852 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
24853 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
24854 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
24855 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
24856 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
24857 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
24858 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
24859 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
24860 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
24861 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
24862 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
24863 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
24866 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
24867 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
24868 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
24869 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
24870 Resolves ticket 6732.
24873 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
24874 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
24875 attack that could in theory leak path information.
24878 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
24879 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
24880 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24881 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
24882 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
24883 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
24884 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
24885 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
24886 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
24887 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
24888 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
24889 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
24890 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
24891 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24894 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
24895 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24896 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
24897 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
24900 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
24901 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
24902 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24903 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
24904 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
24905 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24906 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
24907 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
24908 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
24909 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
24910 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
24911 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
24912 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
24913 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
24914 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
24915 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
24916 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24919 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
24920 a little more useful.
24921 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
24922 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24923 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
24924 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
24925 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
24926 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
24927 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
24930 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
24931 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24932 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
24933 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
24934 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
24935 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
24939 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
24940 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
24941 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
24942 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
24943 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
24946 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
24947 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
24948 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
24951 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
24953 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
24955 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24956 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
24957 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
24958 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
24959 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
24962 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
24963 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24964 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
24965 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
24966 since the beginning of Tor.
24969 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
24970 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
24971 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
24972 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
24973 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
24974 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
24975 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
24976 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24977 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
24978 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
24981 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
24982 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
24985 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
24986 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
24987 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
24988 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
24991 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
24992 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
24993 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
24994 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
24995 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
24996 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
24998 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
24999 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
25000 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
25001 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
25002 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
25003 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
25004 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25005 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
25006 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
25007 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
25008 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
25009 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
25010 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
25011 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
25012 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
25013 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
25014 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25015 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
25016 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
25018 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25019 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
25020 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
25022 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
25023 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25024 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
25025 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
25027 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
25028 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25029 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
25030 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25031 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
25032 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
25033 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25034 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
25035 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25036 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
25037 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25038 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
25039 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
25040 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
25041 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
25042 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
25045 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
25046 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
25047 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
25048 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
25049 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
25052 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
25053 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
25054 options. Closes bug 4748.
25057 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
25058 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
25059 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
25060 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
25061 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
25065 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
25066 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
25068 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
25069 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
25070 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
25071 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
25072 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
25073 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
25074 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
25075 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
25076 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
25079 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
25080 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
25081 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
25082 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
25083 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
25084 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
25085 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
25086 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
25089 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
25090 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
25091 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
25092 case for flushing marked connections.
25093 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
25094 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25095 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
25096 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
25097 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
25098 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
25099 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25100 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
25101 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25102 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
25103 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
25104 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
25105 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25106 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
25107 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
25108 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
25109 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25110 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
25111 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
25112 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
25113 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
25114 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
25115 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
25116 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
25117 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
25119 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
25120 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25121 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
25125 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
25126 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
25127 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
25128 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
25129 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
25130 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
25131 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
25132 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
25133 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
25134 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
25135 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
25136 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
25137 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
25138 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
25139 Addresses ticket 5458.
25140 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25142 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25143 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
25144 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
25147 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
25148 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
25149 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
25153 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
25154 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
25155 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
25156 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
25157 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
25158 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
25159 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25160 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
25161 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
25162 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
25163 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25166 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
25167 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
25170 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
25171 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
25174 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
25175 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
25176 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
25177 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
25178 that get us closer to a release candidate.
25180 o Major bugfixes (general):
25181 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
25182 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
25183 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
25184 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
25185 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
25186 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
25187 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25188 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
25189 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
25191 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
25192 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
25193 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
25194 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
25197 o Major bugfixes (clients):
25198 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
25199 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
25200 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
25201 which introduced predicted ports.
25202 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
25203 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
25204 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
25205 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25206 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
25207 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
25208 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
25209 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
25210 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
25211 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
25212 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25213 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
25214 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
25216 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25217 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
25218 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
25219 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
25220 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
25221 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
25222 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
25223 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
25224 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
25225 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
25226 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
25230 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
25231 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
25232 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
25233 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
25234 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
25235 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
25236 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
25237 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
25238 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
25239 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
25240 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
25241 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
25242 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
25243 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
25245 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
25246 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
25247 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
25248 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
25249 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
25250 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
25251 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
25252 sure. Closes bug 5139.
25253 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
25254 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
25255 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
25256 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
25257 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
25258 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
25259 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25261 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
25262 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
25263 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
25264 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
25265 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
25266 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
25267 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
25268 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
25269 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
25270 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
25271 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
25272 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
25273 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
25274 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
25275 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
25276 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
25277 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
25278 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
25279 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
25280 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
25282 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25283 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
25284 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
25285 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
25286 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
25287 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
25288 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
25289 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
25290 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
25291 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
25292 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
25293 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
25294 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
25296 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
25297 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25298 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
25299 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
25301 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
25302 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
25303 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25304 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
25305 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
25306 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25307 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
25308 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
25309 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
25310 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
25312 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
25313 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
25314 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
25316 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25317 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
25318 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
25319 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
25320 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
25321 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
25322 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
25323 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
25324 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
25325 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
25326 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
25327 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25328 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
25329 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
25330 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
25331 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25332 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
25333 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
25334 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
25335 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
25337 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
25338 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
25339 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25340 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
25341 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
25342 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
25344 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
25345 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
25346 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
25348 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
25349 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
25350 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
25351 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25352 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
25353 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25355 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25356 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
25357 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
25359 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
25360 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
25361 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25362 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
25363 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
25364 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25365 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
25366 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
25367 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
25368 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25369 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
25370 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
25371 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
25372 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
25373 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
25374 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
25376 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
25377 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
25378 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25379 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
25380 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
25381 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25382 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
25383 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25384 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
25385 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25386 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
25387 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
25388 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
25391 o Documentation fixes:
25392 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
25393 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
25394 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
25395 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
25396 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
25397 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
25400 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
25401 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
25405 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
25406 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
25407 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
25408 and fixes several crash bugs.
25410 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
25411 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
25412 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
25413 those packages and upgrade anyway.
25415 o Directory authority changes:
25416 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
25417 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
25421 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
25422 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
25423 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
25424 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
25425 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
25426 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
25427 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
25428 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
25429 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
25430 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
25431 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
25432 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
25433 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
25434 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
25435 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
25436 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
25437 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
25438 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
25439 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
25440 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
25441 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
25442 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
25443 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
25444 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
25445 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
25446 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
25447 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
25450 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
25451 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25452 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
25453 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
25455 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
25456 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
25458 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
25459 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
25460 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
25461 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
25462 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
25463 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
25464 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
25465 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
25468 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
25469 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
25470 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
25471 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
25472 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
25473 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
25474 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
25475 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
25476 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
25477 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
25478 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
25479 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
25480 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
25481 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
25482 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
25483 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
25484 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
25485 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
25486 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
25487 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
25488 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
25489 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
25490 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
25491 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
25492 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
25493 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
25494 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
25495 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
25496 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
25497 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
25498 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
25499 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
25500 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25501 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
25502 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25503 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
25504 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
25505 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
25506 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
25507 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25508 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
25509 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
25510 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
25511 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
25512 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
25513 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
25515 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
25516 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
25517 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
25518 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
25519 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
25520 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
25521 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
25522 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
25523 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
25524 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
25525 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25526 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
25527 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25528 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
25529 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
25532 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
25533 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
25534 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
25535 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
25537 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25540 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
25541 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
25542 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
25543 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
25544 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
25545 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
25546 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
25549 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
25550 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
25551 the development branch build on Windows again.
25553 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25554 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
25555 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
25556 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
25557 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
25558 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
25559 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
25560 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
25561 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
25562 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
25563 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
25564 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
25565 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
25566 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
25567 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
25569 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25570 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
25571 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
25572 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25573 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
25574 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
25575 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
25576 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
25577 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
25578 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
25579 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
25580 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25583 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
25584 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
25585 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
25586 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
25587 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
25588 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
25589 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
25590 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
25591 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
25593 o Removed features:
25594 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
25595 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
25596 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
25597 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
25601 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
25602 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
25603 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
25604 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
25606 o Directory authority changes:
25607 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
25611 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
25612 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
25613 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
25614 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
25616 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
25617 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
25618 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
25619 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
25620 documents entirely.
25621 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
25622 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
25623 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25625 o Major features (performance):
25626 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
25627 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
25628 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
25629 much faster than other AES implementations.
25631 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
25632 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
25633 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
25634 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
25635 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
25636 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
25637 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
25638 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
25639 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
25640 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
25641 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
25642 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
25643 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
25644 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
25645 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25646 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
25647 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
25648 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
25650 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
25651 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
25652 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
25653 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25654 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
25655 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25656 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
25657 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
25658 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
25660 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
25661 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
25662 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25663 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
25664 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
25665 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25668 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
25669 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
25670 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
25671 please let us know about it.
25672 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
25673 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
25674 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
25675 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
25676 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25677 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25678 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
25679 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
25681 o Default torrc changes:
25682 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
25683 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
25685 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
25686 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
25687 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
25690 o Removed features:
25691 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
25692 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
25693 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
25694 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
25696 o Code refactoring:
25697 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
25698 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
25699 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
25700 it would be a bad idea to start.
25703 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
25704 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
25705 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
25706 that get us closer to a release candidate.
25708 o Directory authority changes:
25709 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
25712 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
25713 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
25714 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
25715 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
25716 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
25717 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
25718 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
25719 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
25720 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
25721 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
25722 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
25723 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
25724 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
25725 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
25726 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
25727 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
25729 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
25730 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
25731 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
25732 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
25733 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
25734 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25735 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
25736 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
25737 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25738 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
25739 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
25740 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
25742 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
25743 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
25744 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25745 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
25746 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
25748 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
25749 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
25750 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
25751 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
25752 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
25753 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
25754 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
25755 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
25756 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
25757 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
25758 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
25759 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
25760 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25761 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
25762 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
25763 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
25764 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
25765 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
25766 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
25767 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
25768 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
25769 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
25772 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
25773 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
25774 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25775 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
25776 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
25777 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
25778 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
25779 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
25780 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25781 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
25782 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
25783 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
25784 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
25785 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
25786 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
25787 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
25788 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
25791 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
25792 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
25793 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25796 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
25797 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
25798 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
25799 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
25802 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
25803 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
25805 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
25806 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
25807 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
25808 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
25809 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
25810 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
25811 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
25812 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25813 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
25814 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
25815 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
25816 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25819 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
25820 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
25821 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
25822 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
25823 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
25824 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
25825 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25828 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
25829 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
25830 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
25831 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25832 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
25833 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
25834 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
25835 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
25836 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
25837 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
25839 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
25840 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
25841 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
25842 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
25843 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25844 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
25845 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
25846 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
25847 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
25850 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25851 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
25852 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
25856 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
25857 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
25858 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
25859 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
25860 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
25861 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
25864 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
25865 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
25866 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
25867 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
25868 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
25869 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
25870 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
25871 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
25873 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
25874 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
25875 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
25876 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
25877 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
25878 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
25879 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
25880 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
25882 o Major security workaround:
25883 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
25884 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
25885 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
25886 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
25887 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
25888 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
25889 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
25890 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
25891 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
25892 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
25893 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
25896 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
25897 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
25898 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
25899 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
25900 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
25901 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
25902 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
25903 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25904 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
25905 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
25906 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
25907 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
25908 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
25910 o Minor features (controller):
25911 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
25912 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
25913 file. Resolves bug 1101.
25914 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
25915 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
25916 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
25917 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
25918 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
25919 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
25921 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
25922 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
25923 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
25924 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
25925 part of ticket 3457.
25926 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
25927 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
25928 circuit-status' control-port command.
25930 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25931 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
25932 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
25933 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
25934 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
25936 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
25937 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
25938 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
25939 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
25940 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
25941 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
25942 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
25944 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
25945 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
25947 o Minor features (other):
25948 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
25949 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
25950 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
25951 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
25952 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
25953 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
25954 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
25955 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
25957 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
25958 them from the other auths.
25959 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
25960 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
25961 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
25962 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
25963 the 0.2.3.x series.
25964 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25966 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25967 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
25968 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
25969 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
25970 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
25971 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
25972 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
25973 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
25974 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
25975 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
25976 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25977 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
25978 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
25979 be disabled using the new
25980 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
25981 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
25982 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
25983 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
25984 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
25985 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
25986 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
25987 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
25988 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
25989 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
25990 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
25991 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
25993 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
25994 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
25995 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
25998 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25999 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
26000 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
26002 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
26003 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
26004 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
26005 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
26006 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26007 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
26008 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
26010 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
26011 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
26012 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
26013 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
26014 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
26015 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
26016 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
26017 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
26019 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
26020 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
26021 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26022 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
26023 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
26024 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
26025 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
26026 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
26027 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
26030 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26031 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
26032 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
26033 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
26034 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
26035 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
26036 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
26037 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
26038 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
26039 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
26040 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
26041 accidentally been reverted.
26042 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
26043 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
26044 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
26045 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
26046 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
26047 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
26048 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
26049 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
26050 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
26051 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26052 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
26053 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
26054 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
26055 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
26056 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26057 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
26058 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26059 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
26060 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26063 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
26064 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
26065 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
26066 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
26067 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
26068 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
26069 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
26071 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26072 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
26073 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
26074 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
26075 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
26076 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
26077 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
26079 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
26080 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
26081 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
26082 invalid value, rather than just -1.
26083 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
26084 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
26085 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
26086 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
26087 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
26088 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
26089 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
26093 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
26094 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
26095 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
26097 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
26098 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
26099 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
26100 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
26101 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
26102 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
26103 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
26104 (which Tor does not do by default).
26106 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
26107 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
26108 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
26109 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
26110 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
26112 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
26116 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
26117 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
26118 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
26119 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
26122 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
26123 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
26124 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
26125 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
26126 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
26127 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
26128 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
26129 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
26130 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
26131 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
26132 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26135 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26138 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
26139 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
26140 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
26142 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
26143 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
26144 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
26145 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
26146 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
26147 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
26148 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
26149 (which Tor does not do by default).
26151 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
26152 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
26153 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
26154 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
26155 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
26157 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
26158 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
26159 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
26162 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
26163 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
26164 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
26165 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
26166 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
26168 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
26169 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
26172 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
26173 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
26174 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
26175 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
26176 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
26177 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
26178 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
26179 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
26181 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
26182 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
26183 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
26184 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
26185 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
26186 close based on processing a cell on it.
26187 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
26188 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
26189 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
26190 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26191 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
26192 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
26193 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26194 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
26195 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
26196 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
26197 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
26198 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
26199 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
26200 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
26201 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
26204 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
26205 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
26206 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
26207 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
26208 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
26209 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
26210 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
26212 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
26213 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
26214 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
26215 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
26216 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
26217 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26218 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
26219 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
26220 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26221 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
26222 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
26223 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
26224 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
26225 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26226 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
26227 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
26228 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
26229 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
26230 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26231 Reported by "troll_un".
26232 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
26233 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26234 Reported by "troll_un".
26235 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
26236 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
26237 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
26238 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
26241 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
26242 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
26243 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
26244 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
26245 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
26246 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
26247 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
26248 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
26249 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
26250 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
26251 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26253 o Packaging changes:
26254 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
26255 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
26258 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
26259 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
26260 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
26261 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
26262 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
26264 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
26265 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
26267 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26268 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
26269 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
26270 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
26271 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26272 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
26273 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
26274 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
26275 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
26278 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26281 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
26282 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
26283 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
26284 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
26285 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
26286 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
26287 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
26290 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
26291 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
26292 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
26293 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
26294 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
26295 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
26296 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
26297 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
26298 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
26299 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
26300 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
26301 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
26302 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
26303 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
26304 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
26305 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
26306 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
26307 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
26308 Resolves ticket 4526.
26309 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
26310 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
26311 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
26312 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
26313 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
26314 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
26315 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
26316 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
26317 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
26318 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
26319 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
26320 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
26321 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
26322 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
26323 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
26324 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
26327 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
26328 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
26329 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
26330 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
26331 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
26332 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
26333 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
26334 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
26335 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
26336 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
26338 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
26339 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
26340 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
26341 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
26342 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
26343 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
26344 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
26345 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
26346 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
26348 o Minor features (new/different config options):
26349 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
26350 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
26351 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
26352 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
26353 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
26354 Implements issue 933.
26355 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
26356 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
26357 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
26358 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
26359 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
26360 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
26361 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
26362 appending to the list.
26363 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
26364 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
26365 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
26366 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
26368 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
26369 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
26370 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
26371 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
26372 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
26373 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
26374 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
26375 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
26378 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
26379 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
26380 Resolves ticket 2474.
26381 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
26382 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
26383 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
26384 Required by fix for bug 3460.
26385 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
26386 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
26387 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
26388 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
26389 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
26390 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
26391 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
26392 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
26393 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
26395 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26396 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
26397 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
26399 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
26401 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
26402 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
26404 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
26405 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
26406 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
26407 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
26408 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
26409 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
26410 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
26412 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
26413 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
26414 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26415 Reported by "troll_un".
26416 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
26417 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26418 Reported by "troll_un".
26419 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
26420 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
26421 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
26422 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
26424 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
26425 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
26427 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
26428 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
26429 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
26430 with help from wanoskarnet.
26431 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
26432 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26435 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
26436 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
26437 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
26438 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26440 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
26441 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
26442 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
26443 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
26444 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
26445 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
26446 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
26447 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
26450 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
26451 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
26452 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
26453 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
26454 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
26455 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
26456 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
26457 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
26458 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
26461 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
26462 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
26463 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
26464 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
26466 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
26467 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
26468 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
26469 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26470 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
26471 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
26472 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
26473 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
26474 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
26475 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
26476 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
26477 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
26478 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
26479 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
26480 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
26481 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
26482 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
26483 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
26484 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
26485 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
26486 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
26487 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
26488 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
26489 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
26492 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
26493 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
26494 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
26495 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
26496 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
26497 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26498 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
26499 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
26502 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26503 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
26504 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
26505 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
26506 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
26507 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
26508 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
26509 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
26510 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
26511 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
26512 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
26513 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
26514 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
26515 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
26516 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
26518 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
26519 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
26520 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
26521 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
26522 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
26523 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
26524 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
26525 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26526 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
26527 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
26528 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
26529 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
26530 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
26531 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26532 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
26533 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
26534 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
26536 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26537 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
26538 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
26539 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
26540 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26541 Found by frosty_un.
26542 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
26543 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
26544 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
26546 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
26547 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
26548 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
26550 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
26551 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
26553 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
26554 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26557 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
26558 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
26559 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
26560 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
26561 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
26562 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
26563 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
26564 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
26565 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
26566 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
26567 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
26568 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
26569 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
26570 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
26572 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
26573 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
26574 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26576 o Packaging changes:
26577 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
26578 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
26580 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26581 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
26582 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
26583 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
26584 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
26585 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
26586 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
26587 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
26588 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
26591 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
26593 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
26594 ./src/test/bench binary.
26595 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
26596 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
26599 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
26600 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
26601 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
26605 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
26606 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
26607 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
26608 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
26609 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
26610 close based on processing a cell on it.
26611 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
26612 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
26613 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26614 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
26615 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
26616 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
26617 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
26618 cells were introduced.
26621 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
26622 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
26625 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
26626 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
26627 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
26628 users. Everybody should upgrade.
26630 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
26631 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
26634 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
26635 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
26636 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
26637 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
26638 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
26639 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
26641 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
26642 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
26643 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
26644 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
26645 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
26646 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
26647 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
26648 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
26649 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
26650 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
26651 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
26652 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
26653 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
26654 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
26655 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
26656 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
26657 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
26658 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
26661 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26662 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
26663 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
26664 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
26665 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
26666 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
26667 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
26668 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
26669 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
26670 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
26671 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
26672 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
26673 Partly fixes bug 3825.
26674 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
26675 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
26676 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
26677 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
26678 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
26679 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
26680 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
26682 o Major bugfixes (other):
26683 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
26684 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
26685 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
26686 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26687 Found by "frosty_un".
26688 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
26689 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
26690 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
26691 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
26692 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
26693 immensely in tracking this bug down.
26694 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
26695 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
26698 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26699 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
26700 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
26701 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
26702 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
26703 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
26704 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
26705 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
26706 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
26707 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
26708 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
26709 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
26710 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
26711 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26712 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
26713 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
26714 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
26715 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
26716 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
26717 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
26718 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
26720 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26721 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
26722 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
26723 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26724 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
26725 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
26726 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
26727 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
26728 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
26729 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
26730 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
26733 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
26734 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
26735 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
26736 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
26737 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
26738 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
26739 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
26740 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
26741 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
26742 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
26743 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
26744 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
26745 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
26746 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26748 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26749 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
26750 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
26751 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
26752 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
26753 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
26754 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
26755 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
26758 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
26759 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
26760 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
26762 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
26763 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
26764 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
26765 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
26766 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
26767 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
26768 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
26769 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
26770 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
26771 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
26772 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
26773 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
26774 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
26776 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
26777 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
26778 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
26779 currently connected to them.
26781 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
26782 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
26783 remain; see for example proposal 188.
26785 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
26786 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
26787 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
26788 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
26789 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
26790 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
26791 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
26792 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
26793 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
26794 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
26795 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
26796 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
26797 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
26798 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
26799 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
26800 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
26801 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
26802 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
26805 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
26806 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
26807 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
26808 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
26809 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
26810 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
26811 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
26812 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26813 when bridges were introduced.
26814 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
26815 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
26816 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
26817 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26818 Found by "frosty_un".
26821 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
26822 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
26824 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
26825 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
26826 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
26827 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
26828 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
26829 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
26830 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
26833 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
26834 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
26835 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
26836 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
26837 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
26838 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
26839 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
26840 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
26841 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
26842 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
26843 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
26844 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
26845 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
26846 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
26847 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
26848 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
26849 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
26850 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
26852 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
26853 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
26854 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
26855 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26856 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
26857 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
26858 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
26859 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
26860 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
26861 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
26862 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
26863 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
26866 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
26867 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
26868 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
26869 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26872 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
26873 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
26874 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
26875 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
26876 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
26878 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26879 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
26880 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
26881 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
26882 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
26883 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
26884 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
26885 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
26886 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
26887 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
26889 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26890 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
26891 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
26892 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
26893 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
26894 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
26895 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
26896 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
26897 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
26898 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
26899 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
26900 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
26901 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
26902 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
26903 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26904 Found by "frosty_un".
26905 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
26906 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
26907 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
26908 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
26909 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
26910 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
26911 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
26912 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
26913 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
26914 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
26915 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
26916 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
26917 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26918 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
26919 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
26920 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
26921 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
26922 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
26923 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
26925 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26926 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
26927 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
26928 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
26929 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
26930 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
26931 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
26932 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
26934 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
26935 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
26936 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
26937 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
26938 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
26939 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
26940 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
26941 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
26942 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
26943 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
26944 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
26945 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
26947 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
26948 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26949 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
26950 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26951 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
26952 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26953 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
26954 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
26955 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
26957 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
26959 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
26960 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
26961 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
26962 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26963 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
26964 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
26965 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
26966 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
26968 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
26969 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
26970 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
26971 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
26972 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
26974 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
26975 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
26976 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
26977 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
26978 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
26981 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
26982 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
26983 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
26984 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
26985 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
26988 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
26989 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
26990 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
26991 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
26992 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
26993 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
26994 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
26995 when bridges were introduced.
26998 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
26999 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
27000 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27002 o Major features (networking):
27003 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
27004 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
27005 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
27006 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
27007 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
27011 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
27012 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
27013 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
27015 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
27016 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
27017 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
27018 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
27019 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27021 o Minor features (diagnostics):
27022 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
27023 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
27026 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
27027 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
27028 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
27029 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
27030 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
27031 listed in the network consensus and republish.
27033 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27034 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
27035 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
27036 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27038 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
27039 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
27040 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
27041 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
27042 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
27043 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
27044 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
27045 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
27046 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
27047 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
27048 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
27050 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27051 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
27052 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
27053 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
27054 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
27055 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
27056 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
27057 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
27058 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
27059 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27061 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27062 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
27063 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
27064 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
27065 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
27066 fixes part of bug 2442.
27067 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
27068 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
27069 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
27071 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
27072 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
27073 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
27074 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
27075 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27077 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
27078 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
27079 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
27080 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
27081 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
27084 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
27085 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
27086 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
27090 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
27091 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
27092 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
27093 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
27094 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
27095 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
27096 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
27099 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
27100 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
27101 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
27102 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
27103 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
27104 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
27105 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
27108 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
27109 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
27110 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
27111 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
27112 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
27113 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
27114 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
27115 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
27116 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27118 o Code refactoring:
27119 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
27120 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
27123 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
27124 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
27125 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
27126 reachable from Iran again.
27129 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
27130 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
27131 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27133 o Minor features (security):
27134 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
27135 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
27136 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
27137 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
27138 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
27139 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
27140 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
27141 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
27142 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
27143 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
27146 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
27147 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
27148 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
27149 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
27150 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
27151 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
27152 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
27153 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
27154 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27156 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27157 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
27158 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
27159 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
27160 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
27161 raised by bug 3898.
27162 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
27163 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
27164 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
27165 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
27166 fixes part of bug 2442.
27167 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
27168 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
27169 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
27171 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
27172 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
27173 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
27174 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
27175 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27178 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
27179 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
27180 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
27181 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
27182 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
27183 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
27186 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
27187 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
27188 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
27189 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
27190 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
27191 bufferevent-based networking backend.
27193 o Major features (stream isolation):
27194 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
27195 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
27196 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
27197 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
27198 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
27199 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
27200 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
27201 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
27202 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
27203 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
27204 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
27205 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
27206 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
27207 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
27209 o Major features (other):
27210 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
27211 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
27212 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
27213 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
27214 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
27215 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
27216 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
27217 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
27218 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
27219 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
27220 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
27221 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
27222 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
27224 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
27225 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
27227 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
27228 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
27229 Fixes part of bug 3752.
27230 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
27231 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
27232 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
27233 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
27234 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
27235 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
27236 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
27237 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
27238 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
27239 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
27240 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
27241 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
27242 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
27243 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
27244 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
27245 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
27246 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
27248 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
27249 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
27250 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
27251 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
27252 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
27253 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
27256 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
27257 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
27258 user. Implements ticket 1692.
27259 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
27260 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
27261 best copy data out of a buffer.
27262 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
27263 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
27264 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
27266 o Minor features (build compatibility):
27267 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
27268 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
27269 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
27271 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
27272 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27274 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
27275 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
27276 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27277 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
27278 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
27279 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
27280 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27282 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
27283 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
27284 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
27285 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
27286 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
27287 raised by bug 3898.
27288 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
27289 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
27290 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
27293 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
27294 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
27295 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
27296 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
27297 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
27298 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
27299 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
27300 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
27301 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
27302 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
27303 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
27304 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27305 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
27306 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
27307 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
27308 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
27309 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
27310 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
27311 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
27314 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27315 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
27316 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
27320 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
27321 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
27322 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
27323 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
27324 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
27325 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
27328 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
27329 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
27330 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
27331 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
27332 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
27333 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
27334 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
27335 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
27336 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
27337 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
27339 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
27340 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
27341 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
27342 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
27343 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
27344 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
27345 many many other features and bugfixes.
27348 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
27349 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
27350 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
27353 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
27354 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
27355 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
27356 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
27357 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
27358 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
27359 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
27360 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
27363 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27366 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
27367 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
27368 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27369 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
27370 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
27371 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
27372 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
27373 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
27374 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
27375 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
27376 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
27377 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
27378 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
27379 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27380 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
27381 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
27382 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
27383 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
27387 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
27388 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
27389 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
27390 up a variety of recently introduced features.
27393 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
27394 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
27395 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
27396 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
27397 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
27398 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
27399 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
27400 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
27401 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
27402 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
27403 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
27404 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
27405 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
27406 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
27407 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
27408 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
27410 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
27411 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
27412 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
27413 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
27414 order. Fixes bug 2798.
27415 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
27416 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
27417 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
27418 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
27419 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
27420 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
27424 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
27425 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
27426 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
27427 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
27429 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
27430 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
27431 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
27432 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
27433 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
27434 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
27435 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
27436 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
27437 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
27438 Implements ticket 3264.
27439 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
27440 implements ticket 3439.
27442 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
27443 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
27444 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
27445 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
27446 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
27447 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
27448 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
27449 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
27450 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
27451 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
27452 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
27453 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
27454 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
27455 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
27456 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
27457 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
27458 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
27459 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
27460 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
27461 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
27462 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
27463 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
27464 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
27465 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
27466 fails. Spotted by coverity.
27467 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
27468 present. Found by coverity.
27469 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
27470 a directory cache that provides them.
27472 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27473 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
27474 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
27475 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
27476 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
27477 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
27479 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
27480 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
27481 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
27482 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
27483 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
27484 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27485 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
27486 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
27488 o Code simplification and refactoring:
27489 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
27490 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
27491 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
27492 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
27493 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
27494 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
27496 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
27500 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
27501 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
27502 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
27505 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
27506 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
27507 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
27508 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
27511 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
27512 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
27513 discovered by katmagic.
27514 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
27515 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
27516 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
27517 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27518 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
27519 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
27520 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
27521 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27522 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
27523 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
27524 fixes part of bug 3465.
27525 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
27526 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
27530 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27533 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
27534 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
27535 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
27536 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
27537 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
27540 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
27541 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
27542 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
27543 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
27544 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
27547 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
27548 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
27549 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
27550 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
27551 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
27552 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
27555 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
27556 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
27557 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
27558 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27559 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
27560 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
27561 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
27562 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
27563 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
27564 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
27565 fixes part of bug 3407.
27566 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
27567 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
27568 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
27569 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
27570 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
27571 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
27572 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
27573 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
27574 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
27575 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
27577 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
27578 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
27579 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
27580 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
27583 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27585 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27586 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
27587 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
27589 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
27591 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
27594 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
27595 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
27596 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
27597 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
27598 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
27599 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
27603 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
27604 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
27605 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
27606 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27607 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
27608 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
27609 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
27611 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
27612 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27613 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
27614 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
27615 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
27616 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
27617 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
27618 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
27619 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
27620 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
27621 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
27622 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
27623 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
27624 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
27625 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
27626 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
27627 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
27628 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
27629 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
27633 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
27634 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
27635 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
27636 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
27637 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
27638 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
27639 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
27640 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
27641 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
27645 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
27646 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
27647 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
27649 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
27651 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
27652 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
27653 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
27654 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
27655 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27656 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
27657 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
27658 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
27659 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
27661 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
27662 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
27663 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
27664 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
27665 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
27666 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
27668 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
27669 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
27671 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
27672 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
27673 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
27676 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
27677 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
27678 Resolves ticket 3252.
27679 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
27680 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
27681 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
27682 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
27683 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
27684 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
27687 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
27688 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
27691 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
27692 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
27693 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
27696 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
27697 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27698 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
27699 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
27700 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
27703 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
27704 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27705 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
27706 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
27707 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
27708 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
27709 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
27710 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
27711 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
27715 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
27716 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
27717 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
27718 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
27719 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
27721 o Security/privacy fixes:
27722 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
27723 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
27724 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
27725 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
27726 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
27727 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
27728 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
27729 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
27730 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
27731 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
27732 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
27733 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
27734 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
27735 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
27736 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27739 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
27740 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
27741 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
27742 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
27743 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
27744 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
27745 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
27746 part of ticket 3076.
27747 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
27748 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
27749 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
27753 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
27754 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
27755 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
27756 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
27757 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
27758 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
27759 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
27760 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
27762 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
27763 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
27764 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
27765 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
27766 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
27767 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
27768 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
27769 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
27770 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
27771 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
27772 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
27773 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
27774 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27777 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
27778 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
27779 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
27780 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
27781 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
27782 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
27783 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
27785 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
27786 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
27787 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
27788 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
27789 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
27790 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
27791 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
27792 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
27793 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
27794 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
27795 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
27796 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
27797 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
27798 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
27799 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
27800 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
27802 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
27803 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
27805 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
27806 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
27808 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
27809 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
27811 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
27812 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
27813 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27815 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
27816 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
27817 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
27818 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
27819 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27820 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
27821 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
27822 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
27823 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
27824 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
27825 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
27827 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
27828 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
27829 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
27830 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
27831 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
27832 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
27833 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
27834 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
27835 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
27836 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
27837 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
27838 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
27839 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
27842 o Removed features:
27843 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
27844 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
27845 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
27849 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
27850 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
27851 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
27852 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
27853 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
27854 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
27856 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
27857 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
27858 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
27861 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
27862 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
27863 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
27864 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
27865 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
27866 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
27867 zero-copy transports where available.
27868 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
27869 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
27870 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
27871 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
27872 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
27873 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
27874 debug it as it breaks.
27875 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
27876 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
27877 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
27878 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
27879 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
27880 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
27881 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
27882 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
27883 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
27884 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
27885 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
27886 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
27887 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
27888 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
27889 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
27890 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
27891 PortForwarding option.
27892 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
27893 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
27894 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
27895 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
27896 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
27897 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
27898 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
27901 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
27902 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
27903 Implements enhancement 1668.
27904 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
27906 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
27907 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
27908 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
27909 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
27910 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
27911 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
27912 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
27914 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
27915 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
27916 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
27917 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
27918 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
27919 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
27920 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
27922 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
27923 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
27924 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
27925 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
27926 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
27927 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
27928 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
27930 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
27931 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
27932 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
27933 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
27934 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27935 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
27936 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
27937 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
27938 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
27939 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
27940 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
27941 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
27942 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
27943 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
27944 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
27947 o Minor features (controller):
27948 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
27949 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
27950 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
27951 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
27952 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
27953 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
27954 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
27957 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
27958 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
27959 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
27960 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
27961 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
27962 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
27963 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
27964 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
27966 o Minor packaging issues:
27967 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
27968 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
27970 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27971 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
27972 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
27973 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
27974 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
27975 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
27976 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
27977 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
27978 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
27979 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
27980 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
27981 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
27982 our library structure used to force them to link it.
27984 o Removed features:
27985 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
27986 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
27987 are no longer in use as servers.
27989 o Documentation fixes:
27990 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
27991 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
27992 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
27996 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
27997 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
27998 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
27999 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
28000 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
28001 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
28002 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
28003 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
28004 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
28005 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
28008 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
28009 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
28010 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
28011 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
28012 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
28013 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
28014 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
28015 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
28016 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
28017 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28018 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
28019 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
28020 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
28021 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
28022 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
28023 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
28025 o Security and stability fixes:
28026 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
28027 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
28028 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
28029 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
28030 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
28031 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
28032 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
28033 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
28034 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
28035 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
28036 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
28037 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28038 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28039 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28040 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28041 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28044 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
28045 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
28046 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
28047 contributions to the network.
28049 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
28050 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
28051 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
28052 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
28053 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
28054 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
28055 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
28056 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
28057 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
28058 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
28059 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
28060 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
28061 connections to directory servers.
28062 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
28063 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
28064 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
28065 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
28066 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
28067 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
28068 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
28069 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
28070 information, or fetch directory information.
28071 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
28072 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
28073 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
28074 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
28075 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
28076 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
28077 unless you really want your Tor to break.
28078 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
28079 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
28080 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
28081 - When StrictNodes is 1:
28082 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
28083 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
28084 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
28085 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
28086 reachability self-tests.
28087 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
28088 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
28089 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
28090 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
28091 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28092 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
28093 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
28095 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
28096 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28097 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
28098 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
28099 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
28100 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28101 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
28102 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
28103 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
28104 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
28105 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
28108 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
28109 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
28110 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
28111 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
28112 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
28113 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28114 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
28115 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
28116 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
28117 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
28118 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
28119 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28120 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
28121 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
28122 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
28123 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28124 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28126 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
28127 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
28128 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
28129 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
28130 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28131 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
28132 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28133 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
28134 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
28135 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
28136 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
28137 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
28138 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
28139 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
28140 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
28141 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28142 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
28143 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
28144 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
28145 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
28148 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
28149 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
28150 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
28151 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
28152 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
28153 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
28154 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
28155 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
28156 Required by fix for bug 3000.
28157 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
28158 by fix for bug 3000.
28159 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
28160 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
28162 o Code simplification and refactoring:
28163 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
28164 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
28165 send a body too). Since only server versions before
28166 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
28167 keep the workaround in place.
28168 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
28169 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
28170 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
28171 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
28172 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
28173 want to do it differently.
28174 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28175 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28176 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28177 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
28178 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
28182 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
28183 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
28184 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
28185 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
28186 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
28189 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
28190 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
28191 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
28192 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
28193 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
28195 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
28196 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
28197 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
28198 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
28199 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
28200 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
28201 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
28202 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
28203 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
28204 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
28205 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
28206 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
28209 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28210 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28211 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28212 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28213 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28214 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28215 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28217 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
28218 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
28219 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
28220 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
28221 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
28222 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
28223 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
28224 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
28225 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
28226 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
28227 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
28228 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
28229 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
28230 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
28231 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
28232 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
28233 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
28234 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
28235 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
28236 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
28237 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
28238 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28239 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28242 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
28243 networkstatus vote.
28244 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
28245 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
28246 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
28248 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
28249 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
28250 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
28251 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
28253 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
28254 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
28255 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
28256 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28259 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
28260 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
28262 o Documentation changes:
28263 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
28264 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
28266 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
28269 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
28270 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
28271 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
28272 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
28273 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
28274 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
28277 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
28278 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
28279 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
28280 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
28281 the rest of bug 1074.
28282 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28283 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28284 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28285 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28286 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28287 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28288 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28289 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
28290 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
28291 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
28292 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
28293 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
28294 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
28295 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28298 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
28299 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
28300 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
28301 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
28302 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
28303 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
28304 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
28305 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
28306 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
28307 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
28308 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
28309 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
28310 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
28311 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
28313 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28314 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
28315 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
28316 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
28317 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
28318 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
28320 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
28321 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
28322 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
28323 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
28324 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
28325 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
28326 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
28327 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
28328 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
28329 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
28330 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
28331 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
28332 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
28333 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
28334 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
28335 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
28336 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
28337 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
28338 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
28339 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
28340 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
28341 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
28342 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
28343 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
28344 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
28345 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
28347 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
28348 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
28349 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
28350 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
28351 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
28352 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
28354 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
28355 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
28356 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
28358 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28359 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
28360 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
28361 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
28362 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
28363 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
28364 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
28365 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28366 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
28367 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
28368 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
28369 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
28370 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
28374 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
28375 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
28376 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
28377 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
28378 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
28379 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
28380 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
28381 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
28382 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
28383 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
28384 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
28385 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
28387 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28389 o Minor features (log subsystem):
28390 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
28391 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
28392 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
28394 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
28395 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
28397 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
28398 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
28399 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
28402 o Packaging changes:
28403 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
28404 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
28405 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
28408 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
28409 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
28410 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
28411 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
28412 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
28413 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
28416 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
28417 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
28418 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
28419 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
28420 the rest of bug 1074.
28421 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
28422 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28423 Found by "piebeer".
28424 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
28425 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
28426 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
28427 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
28428 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
28429 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
28430 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28433 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
28435 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28438 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
28439 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
28440 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
28441 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
28442 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
28443 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
28444 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
28445 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
28446 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
28447 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
28448 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28450 o Packaging changes:
28451 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
28452 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
28453 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
28454 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
28455 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
28456 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
28459 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
28460 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
28461 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
28462 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
28463 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
28464 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
28467 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
28468 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28469 Found by "piebeer".
28470 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
28471 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
28472 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
28473 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
28476 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
28478 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
28479 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
28480 Implements ticket 2432.
28483 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
28484 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
28485 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
28488 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
28489 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
28490 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
28491 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
28492 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
28493 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
28495 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
28496 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
28497 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
28498 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
28500 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
28501 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
28502 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
28503 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
28504 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
28505 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
28506 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
28507 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
28509 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
28510 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
28511 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
28512 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
28513 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
28514 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
28515 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
28516 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
28517 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
28518 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
28519 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
28520 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
28521 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
28522 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
28525 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
28526 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
28527 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
28528 bug reported by doorss.
28529 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
28530 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
28531 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28532 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
28533 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
28535 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
28536 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
28537 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
28538 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
28539 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
28541 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
28542 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28543 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
28545 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
28546 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
28547 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
28548 Automake 1.7 or later.
28549 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
28550 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
28551 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
28552 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
28554 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28555 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
28556 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
28559 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28560 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
28561 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
28562 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
28564 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28565 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
28566 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
28567 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
28568 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
28569 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
28570 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
28571 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
28572 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
28574 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
28575 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
28576 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
28579 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28580 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
28581 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
28582 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
28583 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
28584 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
28585 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
28586 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
28587 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
28588 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
28589 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
28590 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
28591 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
28593 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
28594 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
28598 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
28599 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
28600 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
28601 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
28602 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
28604 o Major bugfixes (security):
28605 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
28606 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
28607 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
28609 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
28610 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
28611 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
28612 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
28613 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
28614 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
28615 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
28616 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
28618 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
28619 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
28620 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
28621 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
28622 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
28623 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
28624 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
28625 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
28626 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
28627 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
28628 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
28629 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
28630 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
28631 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
28634 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28635 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
28636 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
28637 bug reported by doorss.
28638 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
28639 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
28640 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28641 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
28642 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
28644 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
28645 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
28646 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
28647 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
28648 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
28649 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
28650 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
28651 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
28652 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
28655 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28656 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
28659 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
28660 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
28661 Automake 1.7 or later.
28664 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
28665 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
28666 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
28667 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
28668 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
28671 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
28672 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
28673 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
28674 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
28675 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
28676 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
28677 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
28678 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
28679 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
28680 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
28681 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
28683 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
28684 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
28685 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
28686 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
28688 o Directory authority changes:
28689 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
28692 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
28693 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
28694 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
28695 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
28696 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
28697 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
28698 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
28699 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
28700 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
28703 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28704 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
28705 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
28706 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
28707 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
28708 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
28709 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
28710 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
28711 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
28712 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
28716 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
28717 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
28718 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
28719 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
28723 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
28724 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
28725 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
28726 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
28728 o Directory authority changes:
28729 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
28732 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28735 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
28736 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
28737 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
28738 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
28739 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
28742 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
28743 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
28744 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
28745 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
28746 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28747 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
28748 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
28749 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
28750 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
28751 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28752 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
28753 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28754 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
28755 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
28756 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
28757 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
28758 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
28759 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28760 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
28761 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
28762 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
28763 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
28764 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
28767 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
28768 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
28769 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
28770 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
28772 o New directory authorities:
28773 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
28777 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
28778 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
28779 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
28781 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
28782 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28783 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
28784 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
28785 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
28786 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
28788 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
28789 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
28790 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
28793 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
28794 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
28795 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
28796 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
28797 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
28798 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
28799 Patch from mingw-san.
28802 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
28803 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
28804 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
28805 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
28806 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
28807 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
28810 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
28811 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
28812 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
28815 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
28816 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
28817 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
28818 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
28819 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
28822 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
28823 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
28824 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
28825 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
28826 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
28827 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
28828 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
28829 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
28830 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
28833 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
28834 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
28835 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
28836 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
28837 to a stable release.
28840 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
28841 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
28842 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
28843 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28844 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
28845 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
28846 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
28847 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
28848 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
28849 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
28850 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28851 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
28852 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
28853 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
28854 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
28855 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
28856 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
28857 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
28858 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
28859 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
28860 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
28861 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
28862 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
28863 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
28864 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
28865 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
28866 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
28867 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
28868 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
28869 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
28870 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
28873 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
28874 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
28875 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
28876 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
28877 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
28878 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
28879 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
28880 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
28881 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
28882 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
28883 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
28884 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
28885 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
28886 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
28887 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
28888 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
28889 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
28891 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
28892 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
28893 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
28894 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
28895 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
28897 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
28898 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
28899 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
28900 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
28903 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
28904 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
28905 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
28906 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
28907 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
28908 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
28909 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
28910 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28912 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28913 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
28914 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
28915 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
28916 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
28917 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
28918 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
28919 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
28920 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
28921 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
28922 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
28923 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
28924 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
28925 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
28926 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
28929 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
28930 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
28931 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
28932 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
28933 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
28934 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
28935 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
28936 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
28937 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
28940 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
28941 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
28942 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
28943 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
28944 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
28946 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
28947 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
28948 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
28949 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
28950 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
28951 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
28952 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
28953 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
28954 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
28955 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
28956 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
28957 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
28958 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
28959 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
28961 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
28962 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
28964 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
28965 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
28966 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
28967 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
28968 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
28969 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
28970 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
28971 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
28972 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
28973 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
28974 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
28975 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
28976 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
28977 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
28978 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
28979 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
28980 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
28981 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
28983 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
28984 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
28985 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
28986 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
28987 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
28988 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
28989 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
28990 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
28991 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
28992 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
28993 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
28994 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
28995 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
28997 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
28998 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
28999 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
29000 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29003 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
29004 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
29005 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
29006 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
29007 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
29008 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
29009 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
29010 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
29011 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
29012 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
29013 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
29014 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
29015 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
29016 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
29017 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
29018 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
29019 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
29020 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
29021 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
29024 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29025 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
29026 based on the time during which we were active and not in
29027 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
29028 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
29029 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
29030 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
29031 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29033 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29034 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
29035 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
29036 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
29037 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
29038 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
29039 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
29040 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
29041 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
29042 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
29045 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
29046 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
29047 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
29048 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
29050 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
29051 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
29052 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
29053 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
29054 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
29055 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
29056 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
29057 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
29058 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
29059 the longest-lived bug prize.
29060 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
29061 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
29062 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
29063 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
29064 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
29065 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
29067 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
29068 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
29069 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
29070 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
29071 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
29072 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
29076 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29077 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
29078 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
29079 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
29080 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
29081 got suppressed since the last warning.
29082 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
29083 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
29084 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
29085 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
29086 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
29087 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
29088 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
29089 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
29090 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
29091 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
29092 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
29093 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
29094 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
29095 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
29096 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
29097 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
29098 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
29099 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
29100 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
29102 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
29103 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
29104 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
29106 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29107 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
29108 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
29109 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
29110 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
29111 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
29112 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
29113 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
29114 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
29115 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
29116 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
29117 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
29118 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
29119 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
29120 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
29122 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
29123 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
29124 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
29125 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
29126 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
29127 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29128 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
29130 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
29131 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
29132 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
29133 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
29134 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
29137 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29138 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
29139 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
29140 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
29141 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
29142 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
29143 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
29144 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
29145 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
29146 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
29147 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
29148 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
29149 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
29150 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
29151 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
29152 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
29153 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
29154 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
29157 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
29160 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
29161 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
29162 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
29163 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
29164 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
29168 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
29169 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
29170 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
29171 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
29172 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
29173 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
29174 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
29175 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
29176 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
29177 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
29178 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
29179 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
29180 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
29181 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
29182 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
29183 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
29184 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
29187 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
29188 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
29189 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
29190 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
29191 they first get the Guard flag.
29192 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
29196 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29197 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
29198 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
29199 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
29200 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
29201 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
29202 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
29203 Patch from mingw-san.
29204 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
29205 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
29207 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
29208 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
29209 Implements enhancement 1790.
29211 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
29212 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
29213 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
29214 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
29215 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
29216 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
29217 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
29218 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
29219 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
29220 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
29221 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
29222 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
29223 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
29224 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
29225 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
29226 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
29227 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
29228 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
29229 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
29230 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
29232 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
29233 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
29234 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
29235 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
29236 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
29237 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
29238 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
29239 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
29240 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
29241 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
29242 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
29243 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
29244 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
29246 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
29247 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
29248 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
29249 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
29250 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
29251 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
29253 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29254 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
29255 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
29256 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
29257 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
29258 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
29259 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
29260 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29261 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
29262 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
29263 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
29264 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
29266 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
29267 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
29268 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
29269 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
29270 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
29271 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
29272 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
29274 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
29276 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
29277 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
29278 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
29279 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
29280 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
29281 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
29283 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29284 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
29285 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
29286 structures and defines in or.h for now.
29287 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
29288 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
29289 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
29290 statistics code to be more easily tested.
29291 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
29292 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
29293 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
29296 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
29297 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
29298 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
29299 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
29300 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
29301 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
29305 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
29306 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
29307 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
29308 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
29309 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
29310 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
29311 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
29312 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
29313 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
29314 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
29315 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
29316 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
29317 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
29319 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
29320 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
29321 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
29322 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
29323 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
29324 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
29325 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
29326 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
29327 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
29328 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
29329 can be controlled by the consensus.
29332 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
29333 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
29334 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
29335 more accurate data for many African countries.
29336 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
29337 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
29338 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
29339 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
29340 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
29341 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
29342 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
29343 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
29344 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
29345 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
29346 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
29347 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
29349 o New directory authorities:
29350 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
29354 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
29355 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
29356 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
29357 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
29358 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
29359 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
29360 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
29361 what should go in a patch.
29362 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
29363 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
29364 over our stored history.
29365 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
29366 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
29367 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
29368 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
29369 file. Fixes bug 1296.
29370 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
29371 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
29372 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
29376 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
29378 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
29379 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
29380 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
29381 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
29382 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
29383 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
29384 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
29385 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
29386 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
29387 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
29388 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
29389 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29390 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
29391 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
29392 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
29393 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
29394 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
29395 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
29396 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
29397 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
29398 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
29399 two-hop circuits are actually created.
29400 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
29401 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
29402 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
29403 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
29406 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
29407 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
29408 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
29409 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
29410 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
29412 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
29413 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
29416 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
29417 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
29418 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
29419 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
29420 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
29421 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
29422 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
29423 their directory fetches over TLS).
29424 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
29425 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
29426 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
29427 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
29428 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
29429 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
29430 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
29431 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
29434 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
29435 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
29439 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
29440 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29441 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
29442 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
29443 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
29444 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
29445 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29448 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
29449 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
29450 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
29451 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
29452 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
29455 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
29456 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
29457 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
29458 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
29459 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
29460 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
29461 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
29462 their directory fetches over TLS).
29465 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
29466 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
29468 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
29469 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
29470 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
29471 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
29472 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
29473 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
29474 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
29475 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
29476 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
29477 hour of their uptime.
29480 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
29481 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
29482 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
29486 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
29487 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
29488 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
29489 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
29490 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
29491 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
29493 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
29494 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
29495 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
29497 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
29498 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
29502 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
29503 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
29504 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
29508 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
29509 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
29510 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
29513 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
29514 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
29515 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
29516 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
29517 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
29518 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
29519 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
29520 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
29521 about the option without breaking older ones.
29522 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
29523 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
29524 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
29525 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
29528 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
29529 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
29530 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
29531 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
29533 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
29534 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
29535 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
29538 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
29539 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
29541 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
29542 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
29543 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
29544 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
29545 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
29546 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
29547 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
29548 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
29549 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
29550 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
29551 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
29554 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
29555 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29556 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
29557 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
29558 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
29559 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
29560 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29563 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
29564 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
29565 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
29566 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
29567 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
29568 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
29571 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
29572 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
29573 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
29574 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
29576 o Major features (performance):
29577 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
29578 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
29579 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
29580 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
29581 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
29582 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
29583 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
29585 o Minor features (performance):
29586 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
29587 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
29588 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
29589 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
29590 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
29594 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
29595 speeds up the build considerably.
29597 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
29598 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
29599 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
29600 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
29601 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29602 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
29603 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
29604 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
29606 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
29607 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
29608 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
29610 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
29611 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
29612 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
29613 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
29615 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29616 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
29617 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
29618 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
29619 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
29620 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
29623 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
29624 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
29625 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
29627 o Directory authority changes:
29628 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
29629 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
29630 service directory authority) from the list.
29633 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
29634 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
29635 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
29636 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
29637 libraries in a security patch.
29638 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
29639 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
29640 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
29641 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
29643 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
29644 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
29645 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
29646 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
29647 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
29648 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
29649 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
29652 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
29653 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
29654 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
29655 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
29656 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
29657 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
29658 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
29659 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
29660 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
29661 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
29662 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
29663 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
29664 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
29666 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
29667 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
29668 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
29669 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
29670 control-spec.txt said they were.
29671 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
29672 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
29673 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
29674 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
29675 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29677 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29678 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
29679 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
29680 produce nicer HTML.
29681 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
29682 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
29683 iPhone SDK versions.
29684 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
29685 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
29686 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
29687 projects directory in svn.
29688 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
29689 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
29690 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
29691 high latency links.
29694 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
29695 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
29696 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
29698 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
29699 to the circuit build timeout.
29700 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
29701 arguments we do not recognize.
29702 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
29703 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
29704 open() without checking it.
29707 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
29708 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
29709 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
29710 several minor potential security bugs.
29713 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
29714 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
29715 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
29716 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
29717 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
29718 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
29719 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
29722 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
29723 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
29725 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
29726 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
29727 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
29728 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
29732 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
29733 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
29737 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
29738 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
29739 customized patches to run/build.
29742 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
29743 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
29744 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
29747 o Major bugfixes (performance):
29748 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
29749 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
29750 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
29751 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
29752 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
29753 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
29754 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
29757 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
29758 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
29759 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
29760 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
29761 libraries in a security patch.
29762 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
29763 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
29764 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
29765 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
29768 o Directory authority changes:
29769 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
29770 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
29771 service directory authority) from the list.
29774 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
29775 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
29778 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
29779 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
29780 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
29781 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
29782 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
29785 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
29786 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
29787 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
29791 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
29792 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
29793 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
29794 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
29795 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29798 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
29799 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
29800 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
29804 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
29805 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
29806 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
29807 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
29808 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
29810 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
29811 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
29813 o Directory authority changes:
29814 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
29817 o Major features (performance):
29818 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
29819 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
29820 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
29821 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
29822 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
29823 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
29824 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
29825 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
29826 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
29827 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
29828 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
29829 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
29830 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
29832 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
29833 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
29834 but never per-conn write limits.
29835 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
29836 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
29837 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
29838 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
29840 o Major features (relay selection options):
29841 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
29842 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
29843 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
29844 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
29845 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
29846 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
29847 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
29849 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
29850 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
29852 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
29853 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
29854 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
29855 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
29856 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
29857 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
29858 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
29859 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
29860 the network changes.
29863 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
29864 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
29865 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29868 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
29869 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
29870 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
29871 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
29872 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
29873 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
29874 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
29875 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
29876 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
29877 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
29878 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
29879 generated while acting as a relay.
29880 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
29881 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
29882 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
29883 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
29884 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
29885 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
29887 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
29888 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
29889 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29890 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
29891 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
29892 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
29895 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
29896 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
29897 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
29899 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
29900 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
29901 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
29903 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
29904 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
29906 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
29907 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
29908 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
29910 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
29911 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
29914 o Minor bugfixes (other):
29915 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
29916 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
29917 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
29918 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
29919 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
29920 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
29921 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
29922 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
29924 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
29927 o Removed features:
29928 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
29929 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
29930 hidden service usage.
29933 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
29934 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
29935 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
29936 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
29937 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
29939 o Directory authority changes:
29940 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
29944 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
29945 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
29946 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
29949 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
29950 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
29951 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
29952 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
29953 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
29956 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
29957 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
29958 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
29959 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
29960 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
29961 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
29962 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
29965 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
29966 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
29967 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29968 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
29969 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
29970 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
29972 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
29973 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
29976 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
29977 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
29978 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
29979 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
29980 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
29981 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
29984 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
29985 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
29986 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
29988 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
29989 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
29990 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
29991 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
29992 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
29993 download consensus + microdescriptors".
29994 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
29995 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
29996 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
29997 hash algorithm in the future.
29998 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
29999 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
30000 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
30001 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
30002 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
30003 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
30004 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
30005 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
30006 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
30009 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
30010 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
30011 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
30012 won't work unless we say we are.
30015 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
30016 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
30017 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
30018 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
30019 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
30020 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
30021 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
30022 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
30023 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30024 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
30025 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
30026 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
30027 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
30028 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
30029 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
30030 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
30031 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
30032 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
30033 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
30034 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
30035 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
30036 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
30039 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
30040 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
30041 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
30042 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
30044 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
30045 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
30047 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
30048 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
30049 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
30050 in the Vidalia Settings window.
30053 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
30054 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
30055 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
30056 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
30057 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
30059 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
30060 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
30062 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
30063 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
30064 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
30067 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
30068 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
30069 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
30071 o New directory authorities:
30072 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
30074 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
30077 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
30078 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
30080 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
30081 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
30082 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30083 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
30084 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
30085 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
30086 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30087 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30088 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
30089 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
30090 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
30091 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
30092 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
30093 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
30094 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
30095 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
30096 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
30098 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
30099 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
30100 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
30102 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
30103 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
30107 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
30108 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
30109 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
30110 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
30111 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
30114 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
30115 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
30118 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
30120 o Directory authorities:
30121 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
30125 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
30126 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
30127 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
30128 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
30129 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
30132 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
30133 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
30134 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
30135 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
30137 o New directory authorities:
30138 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
30141 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
30142 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
30143 SSL handshake issues.
30144 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
30145 during the TLS handshake.
30146 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
30147 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
30148 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
30149 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
30150 none of which are very big.
30153 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
30155 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
30156 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30157 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
30158 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
30159 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30160 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
30161 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
30162 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
30165 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30166 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
30167 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
30168 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
30169 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
30172 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
30173 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30176 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
30177 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
30180 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
30181 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
30182 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
30185 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
30186 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
30187 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
30188 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
30189 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
30190 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
30193 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
30194 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
30195 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
30196 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
30197 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
30198 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
30199 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
30200 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
30201 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
30202 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
30203 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
30204 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
30205 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
30206 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
30207 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
30208 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
30209 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
30210 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
30213 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
30214 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
30218 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
30219 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
30220 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30221 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
30222 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
30223 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
30224 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30225 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
30226 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
30227 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
30228 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30229 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30230 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
30231 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
30232 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
30233 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
30234 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
30235 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
30236 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
30237 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
30238 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
30240 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
30241 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
30242 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
30243 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30244 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
30245 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
30247 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
30248 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
30249 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
30252 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
30253 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
30254 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
30255 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
30256 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
30257 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
30260 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
30261 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
30262 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
30263 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
30264 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
30267 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
30268 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
30269 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
30272 o New directory authorities:
30273 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
30277 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
30278 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
30279 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
30280 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
30281 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
30284 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
30285 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
30286 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
30287 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
30288 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
30291 o New options for gathering stats safely:
30292 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
30293 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
30294 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
30295 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
30296 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
30297 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
30298 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
30299 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
30300 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
30302 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
30303 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
30304 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
30305 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
30307 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
30308 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
30309 their extra-info documents.
30312 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
30313 source files Tor was built with.
30314 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
30315 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
30316 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
30317 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
30318 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
30319 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
30321 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
30322 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
30323 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
30324 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
30325 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
30327 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
30328 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
30331 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
30332 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
30333 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
30334 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
30335 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
30337 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
30338 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
30340 o Deprecated and removed features:
30341 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
30342 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
30343 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
30344 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
30345 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
30346 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
30347 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
30348 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
30350 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
30351 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
30352 via application-level web tricks.
30354 o Packaging changes:
30355 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
30356 installer bundles. See
30357 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
30358 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
30359 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
30360 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
30361 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
30362 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
30363 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
30364 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
30365 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
30366 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
30367 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
30368 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
30371 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
30372 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
30373 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
30376 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
30377 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
30378 part of patch provided by "optimist".
30381 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
30382 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
30383 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
30384 and confuse fewer users.
30387 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
30388 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
30389 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
30390 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
30391 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
30392 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
30393 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
30396 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
30397 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
30398 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
30399 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
30400 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
30401 other features and bug fixes.
30404 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
30407 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
30408 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
30409 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
30410 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
30411 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
30414 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
30415 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
30416 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
30417 failure message (oops).
30420 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
30421 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
30422 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
30423 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
30427 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
30428 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
30429 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
30430 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
30431 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
30432 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
30433 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30434 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
30435 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
30436 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
30437 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
30438 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
30439 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
30440 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
30441 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
30444 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
30445 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
30446 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
30447 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
30448 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
30449 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
30450 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
30451 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
30452 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
30453 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
30454 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
30455 Workaround for bug 1024.
30456 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
30460 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
30461 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
30462 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
30465 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
30467 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
30468 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
30469 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
30470 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
30471 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
30474 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
30475 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
30476 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
30477 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
30478 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
30479 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
30480 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
30481 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
30482 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
30483 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
30486 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
30487 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
30488 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
30489 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
30490 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
30491 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
30492 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
30493 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
30496 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
30497 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
30498 a bunch of minor bugs.
30501 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
30502 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
30503 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
30505 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
30506 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
30507 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
30508 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
30510 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
30514 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
30515 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
30516 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
30518 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30519 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
30521 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
30522 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
30524 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
30525 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
30526 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
30527 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
30528 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
30529 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
30530 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
30531 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
30533 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30534 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
30535 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
30537 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
30538 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
30539 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
30540 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
30541 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
30545 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
30546 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
30547 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
30548 of more minor bugs.
30550 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30551 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
30552 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
30553 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
30555 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
30556 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
30557 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
30558 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
30559 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
30560 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
30561 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
30562 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
30563 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
30564 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
30565 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
30566 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30567 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
30568 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
30569 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
30570 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
30571 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
30573 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
30574 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
30575 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
30576 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30578 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30579 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
30580 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
30583 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
30584 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
30585 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
30586 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
30587 addresses to fall out of the directory.
30590 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
30591 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
30592 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
30593 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
30595 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
30596 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
30597 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
30598 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
30599 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
30600 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
30601 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
30602 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
30603 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
30604 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
30605 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
30606 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
30607 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
30608 patch by Sebastian.
30609 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
30610 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
30613 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
30614 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
30615 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
30616 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
30617 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
30618 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
30620 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
30621 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
30622 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
30623 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
30624 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
30626 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
30629 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
30630 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
30632 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
30633 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
30634 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30635 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30636 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
30637 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
30639 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
30640 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30641 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
30642 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
30643 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
30644 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30645 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
30646 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
30647 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
30648 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
30649 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
30650 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
30654 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
30655 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
30656 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
30659 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
30660 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
30661 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30663 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
30664 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
30665 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
30666 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
30667 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
30668 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
30669 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
30670 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
30671 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
30672 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
30673 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
30674 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
30675 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
30676 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
30677 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
30678 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
30679 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
30680 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
30681 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
30682 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
30683 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
30684 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
30685 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
30686 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
30687 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
30688 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
30690 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
30691 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
30692 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
30693 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
30694 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
30695 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
30696 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
30697 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
30698 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
30699 of 0. Suggested by lark.
30701 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
30702 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
30703 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
30704 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
30705 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
30708 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
30710 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
30711 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
30712 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
30713 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
30716 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
30717 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
30718 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
30719 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
30720 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
30722 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
30723 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
30724 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
30725 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
30728 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
30729 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30730 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
30731 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
30732 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
30733 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
30734 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
30735 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
30738 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
30739 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
30740 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
30741 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
30744 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
30745 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
30746 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
30747 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
30748 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
30749 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
30752 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
30753 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
30754 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
30755 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
30756 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
30757 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30760 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
30761 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
30762 reported by Matt Edman.
30763 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
30765 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
30766 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
30767 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
30768 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
30770 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
30771 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30772 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
30773 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30774 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
30775 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
30776 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
30777 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
30778 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
30779 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
30780 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
30781 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
30782 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
30783 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
30784 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
30785 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30786 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
30787 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
30788 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
30791 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
30792 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
30793 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
30794 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
30797 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
30798 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
30799 the letter of C99's alias rules.
30802 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
30803 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
30804 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
30805 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
30807 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
30808 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
30809 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
30812 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
30813 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
30816 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
30817 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
30818 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
30819 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
30820 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
30821 reported by "wood".
30822 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
30823 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
30824 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
30825 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
30826 identify a connection.
30827 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
30828 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
30829 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
30830 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
30831 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
30832 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
30833 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30834 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
30835 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
30836 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
30838 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
30839 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
30840 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
30841 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
30842 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
30843 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
30844 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
30847 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
30848 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
30850 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
30851 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
30852 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
30853 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
30854 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
30855 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
30856 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30857 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
30859 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
30860 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
30861 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
30862 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
30863 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
30864 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
30865 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
30866 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
30867 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
30868 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
30869 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
30870 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
30871 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
30872 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
30873 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30874 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
30875 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
30876 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
30877 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
30878 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
30879 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
30880 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
30881 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
30882 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
30883 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
30884 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
30885 840. Patch from rovv.
30886 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
30887 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
30888 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
30890 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
30891 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
30892 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
30893 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
30894 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
30895 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
30896 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
30898 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
30899 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
30900 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
30903 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
30904 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
30906 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
30907 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
30908 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
30909 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
30910 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
30911 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
30912 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
30913 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
30914 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
30916 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
30918 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
30919 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
30923 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
30924 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
30925 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
30926 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
30927 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
30928 have had some time to upgrade.)
30931 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
30932 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
30935 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
30936 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
30937 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
30938 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
30939 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
30942 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
30943 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
30945 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
30946 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
30947 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
30948 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
30949 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
30950 entirely. Patch from coderman.
30953 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
30954 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
30955 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
30956 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
30957 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
30958 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30959 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
30963 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
30964 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
30965 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
30966 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
30967 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
30968 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
30969 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
30972 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
30973 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
30974 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
30975 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
30976 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
30978 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
30979 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
30980 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
30981 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
30982 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
30983 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
30984 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
30985 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
30986 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
30987 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
30991 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
30992 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
30993 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
30995 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
30996 without support for deprecated functions.
30997 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
30999 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
31000 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
31001 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
31002 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
31003 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
31004 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
31005 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
31006 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
31007 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
31008 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
31009 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
31010 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
31011 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
31012 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
31013 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
31014 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
31015 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
31016 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
31017 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
31018 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
31019 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
31020 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
31021 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
31023 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
31024 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
31025 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
31026 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
31027 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
31028 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
31030 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
31031 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
31032 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
31033 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
31034 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
31036 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
31037 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
31038 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
31040 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
31041 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
31044 o Deprecated and removed features:
31045 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
31046 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
31047 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
31050 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31051 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
31052 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
31053 with log.h on Android.
31054 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
31055 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
31058 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
31059 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
31061 o New directory authorities:
31062 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
31066 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
31067 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
31068 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
31069 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
31070 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
31071 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31074 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
31075 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
31076 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
31077 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
31078 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
31079 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
31080 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
31081 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
31082 reported by "wood".
31083 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
31084 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
31085 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
31086 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
31089 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
31090 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
31092 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
31093 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
31094 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
31095 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
31096 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
31097 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
31098 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
31099 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
31100 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
31101 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
31102 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
31103 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
31104 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
31105 Implements proposal 148.
31106 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
31107 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
31108 system to do it for us.
31109 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
31110 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
31111 this fix will be slightly helpful.
31112 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
31113 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
31114 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
31115 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
31116 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
31117 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
31118 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
31119 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
31120 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
31123 o Minor features (controller):
31124 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
31125 been fetched and validated.
31126 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
31127 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
31128 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
31129 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
31130 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
31131 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
31134 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
31135 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31136 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
31137 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
31138 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
31140 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
31141 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
31142 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31143 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
31144 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
31145 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
31146 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
31147 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
31148 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
31150 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
31151 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
31152 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
31153 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
31154 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
31155 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
31156 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
31157 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
31159 o Deprecated and removed features:
31160 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
31162 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
31163 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
31164 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
31166 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31167 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
31168 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
31170 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
31171 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
31172 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
31173 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
31174 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
31175 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
31178 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
31179 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
31180 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
31181 fixes a variety of other issues.
31184 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
31185 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
31186 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
31187 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
31190 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
31191 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
31192 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
31193 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
31196 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
31197 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31198 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
31202 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
31204 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
31205 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
31206 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
31207 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
31208 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
31209 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
31210 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
31212 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
31213 rest, and don't automatically fail.
31214 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
31215 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31216 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
31217 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
31219 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
31220 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
31221 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
31222 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
31223 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
31224 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
31225 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
31226 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
31227 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
31228 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
31230 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
31234 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
31235 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
31236 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
31238 o Minor features (controller):
31239 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
31243 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
31244 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
31245 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
31246 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
31247 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
31248 variety of other issues.
31251 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
31252 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
31253 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
31254 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
31255 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
31256 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
31257 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
31258 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
31259 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
31260 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
31261 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
31262 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
31265 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
31266 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31268 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
31269 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
31270 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
31271 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
31272 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
31273 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
31274 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31275 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
31276 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
31277 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
31278 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
31279 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
31280 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
31281 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
31282 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
31286 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
31287 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
31288 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
31289 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
31290 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
31291 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
31292 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
31293 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
31294 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
31295 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
31296 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
31297 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
31298 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
31299 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
31300 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
31301 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
31302 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
31303 list. It has been gone for many months.
31304 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
31305 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
31306 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
31309 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31310 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
31311 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
31314 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
31315 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
31316 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
31317 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
31318 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
31319 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
31320 variety of other issues.
31323 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
31324 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
31325 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
31326 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
31327 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
31328 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
31329 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
31330 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
31331 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
31332 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
31333 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
31334 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
31335 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
31336 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
31339 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
31340 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
31341 Suggested by Lucky Green.
31342 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
31343 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
31344 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
31345 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
31346 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
31347 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
31349 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
31350 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
31352 o Hidden service performance improvements:
31353 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
31354 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
31355 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
31356 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
31357 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
31358 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
31359 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
31360 faster after restart.
31363 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
31364 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
31365 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
31366 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
31367 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
31368 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
31369 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
31370 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
31371 840. Patch from rovv.
31372 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
31373 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
31374 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
31375 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
31376 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
31377 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
31378 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
31379 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
31380 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
31382 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
31383 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
31384 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
31385 have already been marked for close.
31386 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
31387 introduction points.
31388 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
31389 memory performance during directory parsing.
31390 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
31391 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
31392 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
31393 because of a pending download.
31396 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
31397 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
31398 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
31399 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31402 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
31403 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
31404 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
31405 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
31406 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
31407 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
31408 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
31409 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
31410 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
31411 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
31412 lookups more reliable.
31413 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
31414 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
31415 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
31416 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
31417 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
31418 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
31419 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
31422 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
31423 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
31424 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
31425 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
31426 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
31427 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
31428 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
31429 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
31430 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
31431 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
31432 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
31434 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
31435 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
31436 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
31437 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
31438 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
31439 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
31440 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
31441 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
31442 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
31445 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
31446 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
31447 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
31448 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
31449 locked down these days.
31450 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
31451 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
31452 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
31453 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
31454 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
31456 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
31457 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
31458 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
31459 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
31460 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
31461 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
31462 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
31463 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
31464 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
31465 people find host:port too confusing.
31466 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
31467 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
31468 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
31471 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
31473 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
31474 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
31475 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
31476 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
31477 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
31479 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
31480 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
31481 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
31482 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
31483 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
31484 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
31485 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
31486 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
31487 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
31488 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
31489 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
31490 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
31492 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
31493 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
31494 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
31495 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
31496 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
31497 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
31498 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31499 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
31500 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
31502 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
31503 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
31504 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
31505 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
31506 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
31507 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31508 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
31509 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
31510 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
31511 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
31512 bug 820, reported by seeess.
31513 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
31514 list. It has been gone for many months.
31516 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31517 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
31518 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
31519 actual mistakes we're making here.
31520 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
31521 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
31522 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
31523 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
31526 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
31527 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
31528 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
31529 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31532 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
31533 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
31534 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
31535 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
31536 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
31537 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
31539 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
31540 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
31541 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
31542 pointed out by rovv.
31545 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
31546 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31547 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
31548 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31549 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
31550 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
31551 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
31552 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
31553 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
31554 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31555 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
31556 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
31557 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
31558 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31559 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
31560 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
31561 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
31562 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
31563 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
31564 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
31565 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
31568 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
31569 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
31570 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
31571 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
31572 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
31573 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
31574 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
31577 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
31579 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
31580 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
31581 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
31582 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
31583 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
31584 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
31585 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
31587 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
31588 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
31589 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
31590 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
31591 known descriptor before building circuits.
31593 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
31594 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
31595 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
31596 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
31597 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
31598 identify a connection.
31599 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
31600 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
31601 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
31603 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
31604 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
31605 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
31606 pointed out by rovv.
31609 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
31610 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31611 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
31612 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
31613 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
31614 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31615 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
31616 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
31617 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
31618 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
31619 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
31620 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
31621 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
31622 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
31623 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31626 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
31627 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
31628 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
31629 answer sections match.
31630 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
31631 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
31634 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
31635 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31638 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
31639 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
31640 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
31642 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
31643 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
31644 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
31647 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
31648 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
31649 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
31650 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
31653 o Removed features:
31654 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
31655 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
31658 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
31659 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
31660 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
31661 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
31662 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
31663 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
31665 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
31666 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
31667 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
31670 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
31671 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
31672 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
31673 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
31674 be sent using an "early" cell.
31677 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
31678 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
31679 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
31680 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
31681 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
31682 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
31683 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
31686 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
31687 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
31688 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
31689 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
31690 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
31691 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
31692 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
31693 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
31694 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
31695 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
31696 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
31697 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
31698 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
31699 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
31700 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
31701 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
31704 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
31705 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
31706 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
31707 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
31708 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
31709 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
31710 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
31711 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
31712 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
31714 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
31715 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
31716 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
31717 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
31718 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
31721 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
31722 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
31723 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
31724 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
31726 o Removed features:
31727 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
31728 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
31732 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
31734 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
31735 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
31736 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
31739 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
31740 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
31741 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31744 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
31745 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
31746 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
31747 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
31748 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31749 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
31750 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
31751 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
31752 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31753 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
31754 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
31755 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
31756 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
31757 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
31758 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
31759 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
31760 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
31761 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
31762 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
31763 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
31764 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
31765 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
31766 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
31769 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
31770 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
31772 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
31773 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
31774 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
31775 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
31776 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
31777 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
31778 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
31780 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
31781 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
31782 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
31783 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
31784 found by Geoff Goodell.
31787 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
31788 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
31789 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
31790 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
31791 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
31792 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
31795 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
31796 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
31797 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
31800 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
31801 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
31802 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
31803 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
31804 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31805 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
31806 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
31807 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
31808 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
31809 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
31810 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
31811 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
31812 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
31813 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
31816 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
31817 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
31818 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
31820 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
31821 fingerprints with or without space.
31822 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
31823 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
31824 partway through and wants to catch up.
31825 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
31826 state to start out in.
31829 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
31830 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
31831 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
31832 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
31833 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
31836 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
31837 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
31838 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
31839 some of the connection attempts fail.
31840 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
31841 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
31842 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
31843 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
31844 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
31845 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
31847 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
31848 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
31849 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
31852 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
31853 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
31854 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
31855 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
31856 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
31857 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
31858 and adds a variety of smaller features.
31861 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
31862 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
31863 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
31864 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
31866 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
31867 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
31868 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
31869 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
31871 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
31872 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
31873 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
31874 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
31875 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
31876 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
31877 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
31880 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
31881 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
31882 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
31883 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
31884 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
31886 o Memory fixes and improvements:
31887 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
31888 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
31889 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
31890 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
31891 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
31892 on a typical directory cache.
31893 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
31894 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
31895 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
31896 and may reduce fragmentation.
31897 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
31898 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
31899 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
31901 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
31902 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
31903 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
31905 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
31906 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
31910 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
31911 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
31912 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
31913 done that for a long time.
31914 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
31915 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
31916 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
31917 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
31920 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
31921 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
31922 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
31923 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
31924 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
31925 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
31927 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
31928 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
31929 output to messages of warning and error severity.
31930 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
31931 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
31932 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
31933 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
31934 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
31935 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
31936 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
31937 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
31938 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
31939 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
31940 directory requests we should expect to see.
31941 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
31943 - Lots of new unit tests.
31944 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
31945 two parallel lists in lockstep.
31948 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
31949 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
31950 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
31953 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
31954 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
31955 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
31956 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
31957 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
31958 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
31959 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
31962 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
31963 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
31964 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
31968 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
31969 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
31970 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
31973 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
31974 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
31975 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
31977 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
31978 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
31980 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
31981 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
31982 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
31983 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
31984 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
31985 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
31986 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
31988 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
31989 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
31990 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
31991 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
31992 - Fix compile on Windows.
31995 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
31996 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
31997 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
31998 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
31999 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
32000 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
32001 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
32004 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
32005 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
32008 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
32009 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
32010 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
32011 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
32013 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
32014 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
32015 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
32018 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
32019 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
32020 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
32021 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
32025 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
32026 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
32027 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
32028 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
32030 o Major security fixes:
32031 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
32032 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
32033 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
32034 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
32035 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
32038 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
32039 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32042 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
32043 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
32046 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
32047 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
32050 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
32051 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
32052 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
32055 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
32056 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32059 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
32060 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
32061 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
32062 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
32063 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
32065 o New directory authorities:
32066 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
32067 it has been down for months.
32068 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
32072 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
32073 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
32075 o Minor features (security):
32076 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
32077 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
32078 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
32081 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
32082 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
32083 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
32084 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
32085 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
32086 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
32087 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
32088 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
32089 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32091 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
32092 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
32093 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32094 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
32095 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
32096 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
32097 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32098 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
32099 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
32101 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
32102 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
32103 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
32104 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
32105 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
32106 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
32107 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
32108 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
32109 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
32110 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
32111 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32112 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
32113 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
32114 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
32115 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
32116 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
32117 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
32118 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
32119 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
32122 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
32123 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32124 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
32125 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
32128 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
32129 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
32130 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
32131 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
32134 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
32135 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32136 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
32137 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
32138 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
32141 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
32142 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
32143 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
32144 certain censored countries by default again.
32147 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
32148 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
32149 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
32150 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
32151 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
32152 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
32153 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
32154 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
32156 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
32157 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
32158 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
32159 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
32160 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
32161 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
32162 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
32163 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
32164 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
32165 a directory. Fix from lodger.
32167 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32168 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
32169 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
32170 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
32171 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
32172 RelayBandwidth* values.
32173 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
32174 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
32175 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
32176 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
32177 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
32178 get_interface_address6().
32179 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
32180 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
32181 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
32183 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
32184 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
32185 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
32186 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32187 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
32188 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
32189 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32190 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
32191 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
32192 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32195 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
32196 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
32197 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
32200 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
32201 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32202 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
32203 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
32204 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
32207 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
32208 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
32209 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
32210 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
32211 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
32212 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
32213 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
32214 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
32215 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
32218 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
32219 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
32220 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
32221 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
32224 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
32225 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
32226 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
32227 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
32228 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
32229 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
32230 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
32233 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
32234 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
32235 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
32236 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
32237 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
32238 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
32239 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
32241 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
32242 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
32243 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
32244 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
32245 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
32248 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
32249 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
32250 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
32251 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
32252 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
32253 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
32254 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32255 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
32256 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
32257 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
32258 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
32259 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
32260 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
32261 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
32262 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
32263 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32264 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
32265 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32266 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32267 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
32268 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
32269 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
32270 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
32271 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
32272 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
32273 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
32275 o Minor features (performance):
32276 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
32278 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
32279 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
32280 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
32281 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
32282 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
32283 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
32284 non-system include paths.
32285 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
32286 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
32289 o Minor features (other):
32290 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
32292 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
32293 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
32294 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
32297 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
32298 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
32299 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
32300 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
32302 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
32303 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
32304 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
32305 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
32306 Should fix bug 537.
32307 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
32308 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
32309 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32310 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
32311 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32313 o Minor bugfixes (other):
32314 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
32315 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
32316 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
32317 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
32318 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
32319 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
32320 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
32321 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
32322 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
32323 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
32324 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
32325 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
32326 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
32327 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
32328 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32329 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
32330 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
32331 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
32332 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
32333 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
32334 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
32335 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
32336 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
32337 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
32340 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32341 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
32342 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
32346 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
32347 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
32348 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
32349 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
32350 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
32353 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
32354 Tor's x509 certificates.
32357 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
32358 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
32359 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32360 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
32361 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
32362 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32364 o Minor features (security):
32365 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
32366 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
32368 o Minor features (directory authority):
32369 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
32370 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
32371 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
32372 bandwidthburst values.
32374 o Minor features (controller):
32375 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
32376 processes from running us out of memory.
32378 o Minor features (misc):
32379 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
32380 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
32381 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
32382 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
32384 o Deprecated features (controller):
32385 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
32386 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
32387 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
32390 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
32391 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
32393 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
32394 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
32395 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32396 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
32397 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
32398 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32399 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
32400 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
32402 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
32403 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32404 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
32405 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32406 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
32407 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
32408 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
32409 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
32411 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
32412 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
32413 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
32414 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
32415 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32416 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
32417 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32418 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
32419 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32420 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
32421 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
32422 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32424 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32425 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
32427 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
32428 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
32429 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
32430 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
32431 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
32432 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
32435 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
32436 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
32437 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
32438 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
32439 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
32441 o New directory authorities:
32442 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
32446 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
32447 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
32448 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
32449 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
32450 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
32451 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
32452 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
32453 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
32457 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
32458 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
32459 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
32460 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
32461 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
32462 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
32463 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
32464 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
32465 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
32466 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
32469 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
32470 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
32471 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
32472 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
32476 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
32477 the request isn't encrypted.
32478 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
32479 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
32480 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
32481 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
32482 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
32485 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
32486 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
32489 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
32492 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
32493 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
32494 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
32496 o New directory authorities:
32497 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
32500 o Major performance improvements:
32501 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
32502 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
32503 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
32504 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
32505 memory fragmentation.
32508 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
32509 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
32510 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
32511 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
32512 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
32513 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
32514 bodies when they receive them.
32515 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
32516 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
32517 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
32519 o Minor performance improvements:
32520 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
32521 of them were actually distinct.
32522 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
32523 interested in a given message.
32526 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
32527 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
32528 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
32529 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
32530 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
32531 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
32532 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
32533 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
32534 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
32535 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
32536 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
32538 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
32539 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
32540 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
32541 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
32542 this country" and "1 person from this country".
32543 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
32544 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
32545 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
32546 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
32547 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
32549 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
32550 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
32551 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
32553 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
32554 but client versions are not.
32555 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
32556 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
32558 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
32559 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
32560 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
32561 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
32562 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
32564 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
32565 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
32566 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
32569 o Minor features (controller):
32570 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
32571 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
32572 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
32573 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
32575 o Minor features (directory authorities):
32576 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
32577 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
32578 running a test network on a single host.
32579 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
32580 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
32582 o Minor features (bridges):
32583 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
32584 unencrypted connections.
32586 o Minor features (other):
32587 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
32588 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
32589 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
32590 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
32593 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
32594 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
32595 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
32596 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
32599 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
32600 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
32601 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
32602 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
32603 on network address.
32606 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
32607 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
32608 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
32609 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
32610 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
32611 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
32612 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
32613 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
32614 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
32615 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
32616 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
32617 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
32620 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
32621 rebuild our server descriptor.
32622 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
32623 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
32624 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
32625 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
32626 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
32627 nonstandard integer types.
32628 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
32629 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
32630 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
32631 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
32632 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
32634 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
32635 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
32636 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
32637 when they receive them.
32638 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
32639 This includes some 64-bit systems.
32640 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
32641 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
32642 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
32643 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
32644 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
32645 router_get_by_hexdigest().
32646 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
32647 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
32651 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
32652 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
32653 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32656 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
32657 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
32658 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
32659 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
32660 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
32661 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
32662 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
32663 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32666 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
32667 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
32668 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
32669 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
32671 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
32672 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
32675 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
32676 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
32679 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
32681 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
32682 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
32684 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
32685 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
32686 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
32687 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32688 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
32689 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
32690 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
32691 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32692 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
32693 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
32697 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
32698 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
32699 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
32702 - Make the unit tests build again.
32703 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
32704 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
32705 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
32706 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
32707 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
32708 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32709 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
32710 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
32711 the next one as a duplicate.
32714 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
32715 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
32716 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
32717 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
32720 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
32721 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
32722 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
32725 o New directory authorities:
32726 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
32730 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
32731 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
32732 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
32733 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
32734 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
32735 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
32736 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
32738 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
32739 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
32741 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
32742 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
32743 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
32744 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
32745 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
32746 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
32748 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
32749 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
32750 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32751 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
32752 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
32753 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32756 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
32757 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
32758 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
32759 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
32760 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
32761 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
32762 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
32763 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
32764 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
32765 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
32766 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
32767 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
32768 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
32769 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
32770 where Tor is blocked.
32771 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
32772 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
32773 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
32774 to a file periodically.
32775 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
32776 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
32777 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
32781 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
32782 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
32783 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
32784 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
32785 in the relevant networkstatus document.
32786 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
32787 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
32788 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32789 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
32790 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
32791 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
32792 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
32793 by Karsten Loesing.
32794 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
32795 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
32796 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
32797 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
32798 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
32799 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32800 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
32801 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
32802 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
32803 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32804 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
32805 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
32806 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
32807 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32808 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
32809 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
32810 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
32811 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
32812 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
32813 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32814 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32815 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
32816 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32817 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
32818 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
32819 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32820 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
32821 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32824 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
32825 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
32826 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
32827 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
32828 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
32829 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
32830 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
32831 even if your DirPort isn't on.
32832 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
32833 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
32834 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
32836 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
32837 multiple controller passwords.
32838 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
32839 router based on the router's purpose.
32840 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
32841 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
32842 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
32843 the approved-routers file.
32846 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
32847 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
32848 well as a few minor bugs.
32851 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
32852 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
32853 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
32855 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
32856 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
32857 rebuild our server descriptor.
32859 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32860 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
32861 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
32862 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
32863 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
32864 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
32865 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
32866 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
32867 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
32868 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
32870 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
32871 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
32872 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
32873 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
32874 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
32875 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
32876 then be flexible about families.
32879 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
32880 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
32881 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
32885 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
32886 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
32887 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
32888 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
32889 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
32892 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
32893 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
32894 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
32895 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
32896 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
32899 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
32900 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
32902 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
32903 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
32904 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
32905 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
32906 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
32907 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
32908 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32910 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
32911 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
32912 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
32913 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
32916 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
32917 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
32920 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
32921 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
32922 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32925 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
32926 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
32927 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
32928 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
32929 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
32930 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
32931 addresses many more minor issues.
32933 o New directory authorities:
32934 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
32937 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
32938 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
32939 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
32940 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
32942 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
32943 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
32944 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
32945 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
32946 and are reaching it.
32947 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
32948 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
32949 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
32950 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
32951 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
32952 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
32955 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
32956 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
32958 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
32959 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
32960 no longer work for clients.
32961 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
32962 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
32964 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
32965 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
32966 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
32967 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
32968 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
32969 enough directory information to build a circuit.
32970 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
32971 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
32972 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
32973 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
32974 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
32975 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
32977 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
32978 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
32979 requests for all of them.
32980 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
32982 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
32983 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
32984 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
32986 o New requirements:
32987 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
32988 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
32992 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
32993 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
32994 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
32995 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
32996 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
32997 networkstatuses that we already have.
32998 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
32999 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
33000 we start knowing some directory caches.
33001 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
33002 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
33003 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
33004 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
33005 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
33006 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
33007 Good in combination with --hash-password.
33008 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
33009 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
33011 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
33012 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
33013 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
33015 o Minor features (bridges):
33016 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
33017 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
33018 back to trying the bridge directly.
33019 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
33020 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
33022 o Minor features (controller):
33023 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
33024 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
33025 report the value as a "minimum skew."
33028 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
33029 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
33033 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
33034 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
33035 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
33036 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
33037 reported by tup and ioerror.
33038 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
33039 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
33041 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
33042 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
33044 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
33045 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
33046 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
33048 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
33049 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33050 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
33051 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33052 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
33053 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33054 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
33056 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
33057 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
33058 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33060 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
33061 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
33062 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
33063 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
33064 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
33067 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
33068 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
33069 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
33070 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
33071 lists for a few hours each day.
33073 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33074 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
33075 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
33076 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
33077 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
33078 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
33079 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
33080 rend_process_relay_cell().
33082 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33083 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
33084 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
33085 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
33086 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
33087 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
33088 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
33089 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
33091 o Major bugfixes (other):
33092 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
33093 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
33094 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
33095 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
33096 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
33097 circuit cannibalization).
33098 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
33099 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
33100 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
33101 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
33102 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
33103 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
33106 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
33107 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
33109 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
33110 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
33111 absent. Resolves bug 467.
33112 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
33113 a way to trigger this remotely.)
33114 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
33115 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
33116 were reporting the dir port.)
33117 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
33118 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
33119 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
33120 the future. Fixes bug 434.
33121 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
33123 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
33124 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
33125 the onion key from getting rotated.
33126 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
33127 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
33128 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
33129 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
33130 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
33131 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
33132 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33133 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
33134 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
33137 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
33138 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
33139 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
33140 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
33141 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
33142 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
33144 o Major features (directory system):
33145 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
33146 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
33147 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
33148 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
33149 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
33150 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
33151 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
33152 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
33153 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
33154 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
33155 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
33156 Partially implements proposal 122.
33157 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
33158 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
33161 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
33162 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
33163 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
33164 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
33166 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
33167 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
33168 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
33169 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
33170 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
33171 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33172 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
33173 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
33174 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33176 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
33177 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
33179 - Allow certificates to include an address.
33180 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
33181 and download operations.
33182 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
33183 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
33184 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
33185 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
33186 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
33187 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
33189 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
33190 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
33193 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
33194 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
33195 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
33196 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
33198 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
33199 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
33200 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
33202 o Minor features (performance):
33203 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
33204 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
33205 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
33206 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
33207 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
33208 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
33209 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
33212 o Minor features (compilation):
33213 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
33214 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
33216 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
33217 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
33218 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
33219 stick around indefinitely.
33220 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
33222 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
33223 v3 directory authority.
33224 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
33225 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
33227 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
33228 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
33229 "moria on moria:9031."
33230 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
33231 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
33232 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
33233 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
33234 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
33235 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
33236 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
33237 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
33239 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
33240 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
33241 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
33242 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
33243 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
33244 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
33245 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
33246 downloads than for other types.
33248 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
33249 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
33251 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
33252 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
33253 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33255 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33256 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
33257 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33258 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
33259 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
33260 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
33261 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
33262 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
33264 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33265 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
33266 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
33267 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
33268 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
33269 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
33270 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
33271 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33272 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
33273 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
33274 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
33276 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
33277 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
33280 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33281 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
33282 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
33283 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
33284 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
33285 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
33286 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
33287 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
33288 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
33289 so that they all take the same named flags.
33292 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
33293 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
33294 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
33297 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
33298 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
33299 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
33300 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
33301 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
33302 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
33304 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
33305 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
33306 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
33307 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
33308 annotations along with descriptors.
33309 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
33310 source, and its purpose.
33311 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
33313 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
33314 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
33315 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
33316 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
33319 o Major features (directory authorities):
33320 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
33322 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
33323 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
33324 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
33325 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
33326 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
33327 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
33329 o Major features (v3 directory system):
33330 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
33331 and download the descriptors listed in them.
33332 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
33333 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
33334 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
33336 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33337 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
33338 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
33339 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
33342 o Major bugfixes (performance):
33343 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
33344 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
33345 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
33346 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
33348 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
33349 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
33350 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
33351 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
33352 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
33353 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
33355 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
33356 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
33358 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
33359 certificate is requested.
33360 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
33361 certificate requests.
33363 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
33364 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
33365 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
33366 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
33369 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33370 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
33371 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
33372 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33374 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
33375 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
33377 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
33378 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
33379 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
33380 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
33381 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
33382 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
33383 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
33384 downloads more sensible.
33385 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
33386 another when serving certificates.
33388 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33389 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
33390 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
33391 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
33393 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
33394 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
33395 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
33397 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
33398 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
33400 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
33401 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
33402 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
33403 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
33404 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
33406 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
33407 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
33408 WARN-severity events.
33409 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
33410 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
33411 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
33413 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
33414 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
33415 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
33417 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
33418 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
33419 circuit cannibalization).
33421 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33422 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
33423 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
33424 new module, networkstatus.c.
33425 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
33426 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
33427 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
33428 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
33429 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
33430 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
33431 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
33432 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
33433 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
33435 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
33437 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
33438 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
33441 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
33442 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
33443 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
33444 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
33446 o New directory authorities:
33447 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
33448 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
33450 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33451 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
33452 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33454 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
33455 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
33456 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
33457 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
33458 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
33459 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
33460 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
33461 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
33462 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
33463 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
33464 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33466 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33467 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
33468 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
33469 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
33470 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
33471 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
33472 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
33473 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
33474 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
33476 o Minor features (security):
33477 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
33478 address maps to an internal address space.
33479 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
33480 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
33482 o Minor features (guard nodes):
33483 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
33484 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
33485 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
33486 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
33488 o Minor features (speed):
33489 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
33490 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
33491 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
33492 on big-endian hosts.)
33494 o Minor features (controller):
33495 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
33496 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
33497 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
33498 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
33501 o Removed features:
33502 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
33503 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
33504 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
33505 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
33506 implementation of proposal 104.
33507 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
33508 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
33509 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
33510 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
33511 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
33512 patch from Karsten Loesing.
33513 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
33514 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
33517 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
33518 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
33519 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
33520 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
33521 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33522 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
33523 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33524 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
33525 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
33526 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33527 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
33528 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
33529 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
33530 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33531 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
33532 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
33533 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
33534 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33535 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
33536 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
33538 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33539 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
33540 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
33542 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
33543 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
33544 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
33545 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
33548 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
33549 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
33550 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
33551 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
33552 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
33555 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
33556 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
33559 o Major bugfixes (security):
33560 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
33561 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
33562 become more of a headache than it's worth.
33564 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
33565 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
33566 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
33568 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
33569 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
33570 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
33571 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
33572 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
33573 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
33575 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
33576 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
33577 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
33578 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
33579 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
33581 o Minor features (controller):
33582 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
33583 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
33584 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
33585 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
33587 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
33588 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
33589 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
33590 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
33591 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
33592 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
33593 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
33594 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
33596 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33597 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
33598 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
33599 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
33600 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
33601 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
33602 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
33603 if we ran off the end of the list.
33604 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
33605 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
33606 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
33607 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
33608 every time we change any piece of our config.
33609 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
33610 encourage people using them to stop.
33611 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
33613 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
33614 servers to choose a circuit.
33615 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
33616 unparseable piece of it.
33619 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
33620 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
33621 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
33622 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
33625 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
33626 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
33627 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
33628 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
33629 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
33631 o New directory authorities:
33632 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
33635 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
33636 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
33637 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
33638 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
33640 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
33641 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
33642 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
33644 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
33645 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
33646 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
33647 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
33648 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
33649 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
33651 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
33652 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
33653 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33656 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
33657 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
33658 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
33659 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
33663 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
33664 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
33665 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
33666 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
33668 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
33669 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
33671 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
33672 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
33673 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
33674 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
33675 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
33676 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
33677 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33678 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
33679 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
33680 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
33683 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
33684 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
33685 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
33686 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
33687 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
33688 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
33690 o Removed features:
33691 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
33692 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
33693 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
33694 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
33697 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
33698 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
33699 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
33700 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
33701 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
33704 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
33705 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
33706 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
33707 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
33708 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
33709 reported by lodger.
33711 o Minor features (directory servers):
33712 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
33713 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
33715 o Minor features (directory voting):
33716 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
33719 o Minor features (security):
33720 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
33721 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
33722 encourage people using them to stop.
33724 o Minor features (controller):
33725 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
33726 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
33727 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
33728 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
33729 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
33730 cookie authentication file, and config option
33731 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
33733 o Minor features (unit testing):
33734 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
33735 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
33736 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
33737 logging for the unit tests.
33739 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
33740 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
33741 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
33742 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
33743 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
33744 every time we change any piece of our config.
33745 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
33746 the future. Fixes bug 434.
33747 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
33749 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
33750 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
33751 the onion key from getting rotated.
33752 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
33753 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
33754 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
33757 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33758 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
33759 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
33761 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
33762 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
33763 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
33764 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
33767 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
33768 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
33769 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
33770 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
33771 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
33772 TorK, etc. Or worse.
33774 o Major security fixes:
33775 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
33776 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
33779 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
33780 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
33781 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
33782 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
33784 o Major security fixes:
33785 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
33786 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
33788 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
33789 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
33792 o Minor features (performance):
33793 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
33794 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
33795 performance-intensive.
33796 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
33797 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
33798 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
33799 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
33800 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
33801 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
33805 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
33806 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
33807 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
33808 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
33812 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
33813 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
33814 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
33815 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
33816 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
33818 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
33819 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
33820 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
33821 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
33823 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
33824 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
33825 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
33826 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
33827 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
33829 o Major features (experimental):
33830 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
33831 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
33832 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
33833 handling before it's ready for use.
33836 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
33837 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
33838 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
33839 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
33840 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
33841 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
33843 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
33844 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
33845 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
33846 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
33847 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
33849 o Major bugfixes (directory):
33850 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
33851 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
33853 o Minor features (controller):
33854 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
33855 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
33856 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
33857 from Robert Hogan.)
33858 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
33859 from Robert Hogan.)
33860 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
33861 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
33863 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
33864 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
33865 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
33866 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
33867 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
33868 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
33869 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
33872 o Minor features (misc):
33873 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
33875 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
33876 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
33877 the authority identity key.
33878 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
33880 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
33881 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
33882 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
33885 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
33886 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
33887 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
33888 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
33889 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
33890 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
33891 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
33892 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
33894 o Performance improvements:
33895 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
33897 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
33898 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
33901 o Deprecated and removed features:
33902 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
33903 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
33904 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
33905 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
33907 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33908 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
33909 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
33910 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
33911 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
33912 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
33913 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
33914 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
33915 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
33918 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
33919 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
33920 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
33921 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
33922 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
33924 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
33925 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
33928 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33929 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
33930 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
33931 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
33932 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
33933 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
33934 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
33935 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
33936 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
33939 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
33940 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
33941 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
33942 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
33944 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
33945 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
33947 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
33948 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
33949 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
33950 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
33951 routerlist while inserting a new router.
33952 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
33953 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
33955 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
33956 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
33957 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
33959 o Major bugfixes (security):
33960 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
33962 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
33963 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
33964 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
33965 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
33966 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
33967 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
33968 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
33969 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
33970 guard list unless we need to.
33972 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
33973 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
33974 don't get overused as guards.
33976 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
33977 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
33978 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
33979 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
33980 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
33982 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33983 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
33984 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
33987 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
33988 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
33989 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
33990 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
33991 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
33992 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
33993 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
33994 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
33997 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
33998 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
33999 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
34000 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
34002 o Minor features (directory):
34003 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
34004 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
34005 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
34006 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
34008 o Minor build issues:
34009 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
34010 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
34011 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
34012 in the tarball, not as "x".
34015 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
34016 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
34017 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
34018 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
34019 forward on a lot of fronts.
34021 o Major features, server usability:
34022 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
34023 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
34024 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
34025 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
34027 o Major features, client usability:
34028 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
34029 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
34030 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
34031 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
34032 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
34033 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
34034 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
34035 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
34037 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
34038 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
34039 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
34040 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
34041 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
34042 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
34044 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
34045 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
34046 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
34048 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
34049 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
34050 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
34051 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
34052 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
34054 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
34055 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
34056 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
34057 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
34059 o Major features, other:
34060 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
34061 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
34062 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
34063 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
34064 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
34067 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
34068 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
34069 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
34072 o Minor fixes (resource management):
34073 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
34074 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
34075 our allocated connection limit.
34076 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
34077 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
34078 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
34079 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
34080 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
34082 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
34083 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
34084 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
34086 o Minor features (build):
34087 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
34088 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
34089 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
34090 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
34092 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
34093 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
34094 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
34095 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
34096 Use this version consistently in log messages.
34098 o Minor features (logging):
34099 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
34100 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
34101 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
34102 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
34103 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
34106 o Minor features (directory system):
34107 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
34108 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
34109 not to serve V2 directory information.
34110 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
34111 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
34112 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
34114 o Minor features (controller):
34115 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
34116 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
34118 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
34119 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
34120 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
34121 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
34122 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
34123 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
34125 o Minor features (hidden services):
34126 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
34127 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
34128 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
34129 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
34131 o Minor features (other):
34133 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
34134 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
34135 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
34136 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
34137 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
34138 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
34139 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
34140 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
34141 longer a completely silly thing to do.
34142 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
34143 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
34144 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
34145 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
34147 o Removed features:
34148 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
34149 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
34150 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
34151 back an error and close the connection.
34152 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
34153 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
34156 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
34157 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
34158 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
34159 makes the log messages nicer.
34160 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
34161 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
34162 partial results on small file reads.
34164 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
34165 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
34166 more often than they are allowed to appear.
34167 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
34168 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
34170 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
34171 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
34172 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
34173 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
34175 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34176 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
34177 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
34178 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
34179 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
34180 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
34181 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
34182 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
34183 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
34184 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
34185 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
34187 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
34188 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
34189 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
34191 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
34192 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
34193 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
34194 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
34196 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34197 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
34198 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
34200 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
34201 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
34204 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34205 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
34206 implicit in other procedure arguments.
34207 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
34208 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
34209 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
34210 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
34211 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
34212 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
34213 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
34214 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
34215 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
34218 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
34219 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
34220 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
34221 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
34223 o Directory authority changes:
34224 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
34225 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
34226 or use hidden services.
34228 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34229 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
34230 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
34231 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
34232 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
34233 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
34234 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
34235 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
34236 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
34239 o Major bugfixes (security):
34240 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
34241 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
34242 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
34244 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
34245 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
34246 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
34247 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
34248 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
34249 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
34250 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
34251 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
34252 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
34253 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
34256 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
34257 purpose=controller.
34258 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
34259 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
34261 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
34262 having a hard time downloading.
34263 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
34264 partial results on small file reads.
34265 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
34266 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
34267 the gaps in the store get very large.
34270 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
34271 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
34273 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
34274 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
34277 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
34278 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
34279 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
34280 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
34281 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
34282 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
34284 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
34285 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
34286 free speech on the Internet.
34289 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
34290 get one we don't recognize.
34291 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
34292 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
34295 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
34297 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
34298 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
34299 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
34300 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
34303 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
34304 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
34307 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
34308 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
34309 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
34310 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
34311 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
34312 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
34313 ask for GUARDS too.
34316 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
34317 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
34318 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
34319 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
34320 on Win98 and friends again.
34322 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34323 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
34324 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
34327 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
34328 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
34329 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
34330 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
34331 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
34332 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
34333 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
34334 and maybe also bug 397.)
34336 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34337 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
34338 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
34340 o Minor bugfixes (server):
34341 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
34344 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
34345 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
34346 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
34347 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
34348 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
34350 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
34351 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
34352 load on authorities.
34354 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34355 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
34356 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
34357 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
34359 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
34361 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
34362 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
34363 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
34364 the last of bug 326.)
34365 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
34366 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
34370 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
34371 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
34372 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
34373 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
34374 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
34375 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
34376 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
34378 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
34379 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
34381 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
34382 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
34383 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
34385 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
34386 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
34387 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
34389 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34390 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
34391 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
34392 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
34394 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
34395 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
34397 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
34398 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
34399 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
34402 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34403 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
34404 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
34405 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
34406 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
34407 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
34408 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
34409 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
34410 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
34411 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
34412 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
34413 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
34414 other than file-not-found.
34415 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
34416 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
34417 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
34418 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
34419 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
34420 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
34421 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
34422 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
34423 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
34424 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
34425 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
34426 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
34427 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
34428 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
34429 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
34431 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
34433 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
34434 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
34436 o Minor features (controller):
34437 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
34438 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
34439 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
34441 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
34442 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
34443 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
34444 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
34445 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
34446 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
34447 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
34448 connected or resolved cell.
34450 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
34451 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
34452 some profiles, but not others.)
34453 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
34454 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
34455 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
34458 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
34460 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
34461 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
34462 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
34463 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
34464 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
34465 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
34466 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
34467 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
34468 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
34469 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
34470 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
34471 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
34472 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
34473 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
34474 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
34476 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
34479 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
34480 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
34481 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
34482 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
34483 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
34484 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
34485 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
34487 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
34488 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
34489 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
34490 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
34491 buckets go absurdly negative.
34492 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
34493 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
34496 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
34497 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
34498 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
34499 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
34500 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
34501 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
34502 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
34503 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
34506 o Major bugfixes (other):
34507 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
34508 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
34509 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
34510 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
34512 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
34514 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
34515 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
34517 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
34518 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
34519 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
34520 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
34521 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
34522 to wait for 0.2.0.)
34524 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
34525 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
34526 possible memory-stomping bugs.
34527 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
34528 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
34530 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
34531 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
34532 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
34533 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
34534 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
34535 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
34537 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34538 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
34539 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
34540 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
34542 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
34543 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
34544 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
34545 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
34546 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
34547 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
34548 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
34549 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
34550 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
34551 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
34552 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
34553 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
34554 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
34556 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
34557 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
34558 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
34559 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
34560 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
34561 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
34562 to the resulting address.
34565 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
34566 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
34567 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
34568 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
34571 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
34572 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
34574 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
34575 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
34576 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
34577 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
34578 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
34579 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
34580 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
34581 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
34582 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
34583 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
34584 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
34585 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
34586 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
34587 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
34588 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
34589 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
34590 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
34593 o Minor features (controller):
34594 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
34595 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
34596 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
34597 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
34598 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
34599 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
34600 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
34604 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
34606 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
34607 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
34608 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
34609 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
34610 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
34611 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
34614 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
34615 weren't planning to resolve.
34616 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
34617 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
34618 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
34619 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
34620 the controller from learning about current events.
34622 o Minor features (more controller status events):
34623 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
34624 learn when our address changes.
34625 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
34626 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
34627 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
34628 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
34630 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
34631 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
34632 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
34633 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
34634 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
34635 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
34636 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
34637 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
34638 are accepted by a directory.
34639 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
34640 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
34641 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
34642 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
34643 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
34645 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
34646 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
34647 about changes to DNS server status.
34649 o Minor features (directory):
34650 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
34651 too much load to the exit nodes.
34654 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
34656 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
34657 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
34658 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
34659 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
34660 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
34662 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
34663 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
34664 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
34666 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
34667 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
34668 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
34669 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
34670 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
34671 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
34672 config options if you like.
34674 o Minor features (config and docs):
34675 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
34676 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
34677 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
34678 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
34679 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
34681 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
34682 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
34683 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
34684 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
34685 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
34687 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
34688 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
34689 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
34690 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
34691 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
34692 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
34693 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
34694 documentation: "make check-docs".
34695 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
34696 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
34698 o Minor features (DNS):
34699 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
34700 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
34701 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
34702 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
34703 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
34704 our tests for DNS hijacking.
34706 o Minor features (directory):
34707 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
34708 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
34709 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
34710 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
34711 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
34712 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
34713 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
34714 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
34715 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
34716 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
34717 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
34718 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
34719 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
34720 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
34721 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
34722 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
34723 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
34724 for the thing we're trying to download.
34725 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
34726 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
34727 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
34729 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
34730 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
34731 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
34734 o Minor features (controller):
34735 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
34736 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
34738 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
34739 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
34740 entry guard status as it changes.
34742 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
34743 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
34744 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
34745 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
34746 to set log options.
34747 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
34748 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
34749 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
34750 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
34753 o Major bugfixes (security):
34754 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
34755 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
34756 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
34757 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
34759 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
34760 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
34761 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
34762 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
34763 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
34765 o Major bugfixes (other):
34766 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
34767 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
34768 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
34769 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
34771 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
34772 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
34773 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
34774 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
34775 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
34776 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
34780 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
34781 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
34782 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
34783 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
34784 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
34786 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
34787 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
34789 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
34790 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
34791 family lists conveniently.
34792 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
34793 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
34794 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
34796 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
34797 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
34799 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
34800 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
34801 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
34802 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
34803 if their identity keys are as expected.
34804 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
34805 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
34806 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
34808 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
34809 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
34810 reported by Mike Perry.
34811 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
34812 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
34813 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
34814 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
34817 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
34818 o Security bugfixes:
34819 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
34820 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
34821 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
34822 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
34826 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
34827 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
34828 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
34831 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
34833 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
34834 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
34835 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
34838 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
34839 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
34840 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
34841 watching for STREAM events.
34842 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
34843 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
34844 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
34845 operations, for profiling.
34848 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
34849 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
34850 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
34851 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
34852 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
34853 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
34855 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
34859 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
34860 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
34861 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
34862 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
34863 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
34865 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
34866 correctly in the Windows installer.
34867 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
34868 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
34869 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
34870 MIPSpro C compiler.
34871 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
34872 when we're running as a client.
34875 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
34877 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
34878 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
34879 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
34880 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
34881 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
34882 its circuits on demand.
34883 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
34884 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
34885 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
34886 connections more stable on average.
34887 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
34888 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
34889 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
34891 o Security bugfixes:
34892 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
34893 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
34896 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
34898 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
34899 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
34900 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
34901 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
34902 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
34903 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
34904 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
34905 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
34908 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
34910 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
34911 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
34912 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
34913 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
34914 routers for even longer.
34915 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
34916 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
34917 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
34918 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
34919 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
34920 caching HTTP proxies.
34921 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
34924 o Minor features, controller:
34925 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
34926 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
34927 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
34928 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
34930 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
34931 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
34932 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
34933 working much like those for circuit events.
34934 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
34935 about the current status of a router.
34936 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
34937 a router's status has changed.
34938 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
34939 can tell which events and features are supported.
34940 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
34941 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
34943 o Security bugfixes:
34944 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
34945 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
34948 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
34949 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
34950 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
34951 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
34952 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
34953 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
34954 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
34955 long nicknames where appropriate.
34956 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
34957 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
34958 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
34959 chews through many circuits before giving up.
34960 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
34961 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
34962 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
34963 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
34964 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
34965 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
34967 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
34968 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
34969 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
34971 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
34972 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
34973 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
34974 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
34975 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
34976 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
34977 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
34978 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
34979 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
34980 (reported by fookoowa).
34981 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
34982 and reported by some Centos users.
34983 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
34984 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
34985 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
34986 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
34987 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
34988 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
34989 before we check for libevent.
34992 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
34994 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
34995 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
34996 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
34997 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
34998 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
34999 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
35000 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
35001 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
35002 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
35003 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
35004 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
35005 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
35006 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
35007 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
35008 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
35009 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
35010 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
35011 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
35012 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
35013 lets you turn it off.
35014 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
35015 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
35016 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
35017 us into the directory more quickly.
35019 o New/improved config options:
35020 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
35021 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
35022 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
35023 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
35024 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
35025 all the machines on the same subnet.
35026 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
35027 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
35028 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
35029 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
35030 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
35031 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
35032 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
35033 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
35034 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
35035 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
35037 o Minor features, controller:
35038 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
35039 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
35040 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
35041 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
35042 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
35043 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
35044 for more information.
35045 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
35046 best guess to the user.
35047 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
35048 descriptor has changed.
35049 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
35051 o Minor features, other:
35052 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
35053 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
35054 useful to the network.
35055 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
35056 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
35057 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
35058 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
35059 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
35060 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
35061 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
35062 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
35063 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
35064 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
35065 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
35066 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
35067 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
35068 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
35069 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
35071 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
35072 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
35073 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
35074 could return an unnamed server instead.
35075 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
35076 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
35077 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
35078 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
35079 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
35080 a more attractive target for compromise.)
35081 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
35082 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
35083 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
35085 o Major bugfixes, other:
35086 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
35087 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
35088 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
35089 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
35090 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
35091 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
35092 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
35093 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
35094 its circuits on demand.
35095 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
35096 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
35097 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
35098 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
35100 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
35101 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
35102 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
35103 we don't recognize.
35104 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
35106 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
35107 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
35108 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
35109 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
35110 "extendcircuit" request.
35111 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
35112 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
35113 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
35115 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
35116 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
35117 instead of "X resolved to X".
35118 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
35119 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
35120 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
35121 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
35122 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
35123 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
35124 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
35125 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
35126 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
35128 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
35129 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
35130 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
35131 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
35132 result more than once.
35133 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
35134 non-versioning dirservers.
35135 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
35136 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
35138 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
35139 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
35140 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
35141 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
35142 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
35143 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
35144 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
35145 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
35146 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
35148 o Packaging, features:
35149 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
35150 now universal binaries.
35151 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
35152 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
35153 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
35155 o Packaging, bugfixes:
35156 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
35157 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
35158 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
35159 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
35161 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
35162 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
35163 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
35166 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
35167 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
35168 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
35172 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
35174 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
35175 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
35176 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
35177 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
35178 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
35179 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
35180 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
35181 it can't resolve its hostname.
35184 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
35185 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
35186 "extendcircuit" request.
35187 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
35188 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
35189 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
35190 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
35192 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
35193 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
35194 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
35196 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
35197 methods: these are known to be buggy.
35198 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
35199 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
35200 we don't recognize.
35203 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
35205 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
35206 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
35207 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
35208 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
35209 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
35210 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
35211 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
35212 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
35213 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
35214 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
35215 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
35216 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
35217 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
35218 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
35219 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
35220 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
35221 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
35222 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
35223 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
35224 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
35225 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
35226 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
35227 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
35228 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
35231 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
35232 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
35233 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
35234 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
35235 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
35236 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
35237 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
35238 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
35239 recommendation system saner.)
35240 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
35242 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
35243 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
35244 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
35245 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
35246 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
35247 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
35248 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
35249 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
35250 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
35251 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
35252 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
35253 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
35254 your ORPort is set.
35255 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
35256 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
35257 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
35258 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
35259 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
35260 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
35261 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
35262 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
35263 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
35264 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
35265 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
35266 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
35268 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
35269 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
35270 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
35271 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
35272 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
35273 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
35276 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
35277 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
35278 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
35279 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
35280 our DirPort now, etc.
35281 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
35282 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
35283 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
35284 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
35285 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
35286 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
35287 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
35289 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
35290 whether the config options are bad or good.
35291 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
35292 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
35293 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
35294 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
35295 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
35296 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
35297 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
35298 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
35301 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
35302 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
35303 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
35304 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
35305 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
35306 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
35307 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
35308 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
35309 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
35310 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
35311 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
35312 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
35313 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
35314 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
35315 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
35316 of it), is not therefore "up".
35317 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
35318 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
35319 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
35320 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
35321 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
35322 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
35325 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
35327 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
35328 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
35329 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
35330 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
35331 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
35332 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
35333 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
35334 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
35335 test reachability, so you won't publish.
35338 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
35339 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
35340 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
35341 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
35342 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
35344 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
35345 own server descriptor yet.
35348 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
35350 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
35351 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
35352 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
35353 make sure to test via one of these.
35354 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
35355 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
35356 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
35357 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
35358 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
35360 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
35361 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
35362 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
35365 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
35366 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
35367 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
35368 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
35369 directory authority.
35370 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
35371 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
35372 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
35373 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
35376 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
35377 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
35378 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
35380 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
35381 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
35382 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
35383 current guards when picking a new guard.
35384 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
35385 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
35386 when we had more than one pending.
35387 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
35388 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
35389 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
35390 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
35391 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
35392 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
35393 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
35394 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
35395 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
35396 debug the reachability problems better.
35398 o Log / documentation fixes:
35399 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
35400 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
35401 about protocol violations by others.
35402 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
35403 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
35404 about what happened to our old torrc.
35407 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
35409 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
35411 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
35412 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
35413 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
35414 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
35417 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
35419 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
35420 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
35421 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
35422 old ORPort and receive connections.
35423 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
35425 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
35426 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
35427 and network-statuses.
35428 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
35429 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
35430 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
35431 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
35433 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
35436 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
35437 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
35438 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
35441 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
35443 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
35444 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
35445 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
35446 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
35447 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
35450 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
35451 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
35453 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
35454 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
35455 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
35456 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
35457 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
35458 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
35459 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
35460 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
35461 rather than not sending anything back at all.
35462 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
35463 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
35464 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
35465 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
35466 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
35467 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
35468 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
35469 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
35470 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
35471 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
35472 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
35473 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
35474 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
35475 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
35476 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
35477 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
35478 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
35479 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
35480 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
35481 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
35482 default ulimit -n is 1024.
35485 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
35486 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
35487 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
35488 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
35491 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
35493 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
35494 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
35495 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
35496 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
35497 entry guards running these flawed versions.
35498 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
35499 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
35500 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
35501 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
35502 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
35505 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
35506 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
35508 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
35509 and it is confusing some users.
35510 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
35511 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
35512 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
35513 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
35514 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
35517 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
35519 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
35520 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
35521 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
35522 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
35523 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
35524 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
35525 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
35526 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
35527 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
35528 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
35529 dirport is set for now.
35531 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
35532 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
35533 unattached before we fail it?
35534 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
35535 at least this many seconds ago.
35536 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
35537 at least this many seconds ago.
35540 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
35541 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
35542 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
35543 or resolve-wait stream.
35544 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
35545 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
35546 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
35547 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
35548 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
35549 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
35550 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
35551 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
35553 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
35554 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
35555 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
35556 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
35557 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
35558 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
35559 given as hex digests.
35560 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
35561 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
35562 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
35563 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
35564 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
35565 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
35566 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
35567 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
35570 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35571 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
35572 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
35573 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
35574 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
35575 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
35576 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
35577 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
35578 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
35579 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
35580 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
35583 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
35584 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
35585 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
35586 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
35587 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
35588 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
35589 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
35592 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
35593 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
35594 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
35595 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
35596 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
35597 misreading their logs.
35598 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
35599 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
35600 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
35601 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
35602 valid router descriptors.
35603 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
35604 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
35605 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
35606 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
35607 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
35608 silently resetting it to its default.
35609 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
35611 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
35614 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
35615 use clean circuits.
35616 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
35617 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
35618 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
35619 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
35620 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
35622 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
35623 because older Tors do not understand it.
35624 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
35628 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
35629 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35630 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
35631 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
35632 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
35633 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
35634 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
35635 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
35636 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
35637 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
35638 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
35640 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
35641 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
35642 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
35643 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
35645 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
35646 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
35649 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
35650 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
35651 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
35652 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
35653 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
35654 without getting overloaded.
35655 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
35657 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
35658 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
35659 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
35660 be forward-compatible.
35661 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
35662 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
35663 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
35664 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
35666 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
35667 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
35668 and OR conns to port 443.
35669 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
35670 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
35672 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
35673 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
35674 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
35675 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
35676 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
35677 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
35678 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
35681 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
35682 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35683 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
35684 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
35686 o Other important bugfixes:
35687 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
35688 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
35689 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
35690 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
35692 o Backported features:
35693 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
35694 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
35695 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
35696 without getting overloaded.
35697 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
35698 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
35699 503's whenever they feel busy.
35700 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
35701 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
35702 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
35703 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
35704 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
35707 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
35708 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
35709 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
35710 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
35711 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
35712 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
35713 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
35714 know if the crashes continue.
35715 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
35716 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
35717 seg faults in at least some cases.)
35718 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
35719 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
35720 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
35723 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
35724 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
35725 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
35726 try to be a bit more fair.
35727 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
35728 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
35729 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
35730 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
35731 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
35732 bug that let it go negative.
35733 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
35734 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
35735 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
35736 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
35737 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
35738 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
35739 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
35740 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
35741 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
35742 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
35743 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
35746 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
35748 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
35749 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
35750 service descriptors.
35753 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
35754 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
35755 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
35756 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
35758 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
35759 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
35760 versions *are* still recommended.
35761 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
35762 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
35763 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
35764 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
35765 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
35766 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
35767 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
35768 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
35770 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
35771 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
35772 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
35773 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
35774 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
35775 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
35776 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
35777 on it. Not used by clients yet.
35778 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
35779 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
35780 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
35781 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
35782 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
35783 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
35784 established a circuit.
35785 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
35786 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
35787 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
35788 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
35791 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
35792 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
35793 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
35794 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
35795 quickly enough. Oops.
35796 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
35798 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35799 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
35802 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
35803 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
35804 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
35805 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
35806 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
35807 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
35808 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
35809 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
35810 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
35811 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
35812 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
35813 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
35814 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
35815 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
35816 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
35817 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
35818 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
35821 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
35822 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
35823 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
35824 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
35825 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
35826 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
35827 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
35828 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
35829 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
35830 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
35831 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
35832 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
35833 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
35834 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
35835 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
35836 connections more reliable.
35839 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
35840 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
35841 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
35842 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
35843 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
35844 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
35845 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
35846 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
35847 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
35848 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
35849 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
35850 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
35851 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
35852 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
35856 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
35857 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
35858 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
35859 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
35860 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
35861 need to be uint64_t's.
35862 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
35863 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
35864 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
35866 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
35868 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
35869 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
35870 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
35871 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
35872 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
35873 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
35874 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
35876 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
35877 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
35878 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
35879 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
35880 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
35881 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
35882 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
35883 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
35884 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
35885 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
35886 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
35887 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
35888 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
35891 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
35892 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
35893 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
35894 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
35895 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
35896 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
35897 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
35899 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
35900 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
35901 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
35902 can answer v2 directory requests too.
35903 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
35904 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
35905 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
35906 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
35908 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
35909 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
35910 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
35911 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
35912 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
35913 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
35914 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
35915 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
35916 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
35917 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
35918 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
35919 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
35920 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
35921 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
35922 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
35924 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
35925 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
35928 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
35929 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35930 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35931 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35932 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35933 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
35934 too -- so detect and avoid this.
35935 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
35937 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
35938 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35939 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35940 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
35941 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
35942 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35943 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35944 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
35945 rendezvous circuits.
35946 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
35948 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35949 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
35950 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
35951 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
35952 advertising it because of hibernation.
35953 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
35954 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35955 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35956 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35957 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35958 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35959 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
35960 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
35961 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
35962 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
35963 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
35964 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
35965 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
35966 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
35969 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
35970 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35971 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
35972 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
35973 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
35974 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
35975 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
35976 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
35977 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
35978 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
35979 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
35980 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
35981 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
35982 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
35983 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
35984 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
35985 connections once a week.
35986 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
35987 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
35988 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
35989 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
35990 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
35991 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
35993 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
35994 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
35995 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
35997 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
35998 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
35999 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
36000 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
36001 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
36002 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
36003 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
36004 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
36005 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
36006 firewall options forbid.
36007 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
36008 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
36009 can only proxy to certain destinations.
36010 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
36011 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
36012 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
36013 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
36014 aids some statistical attacks.
36015 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
36016 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
36017 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
36018 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
36020 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36021 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
36022 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
36023 server descriptor sometimes.
36024 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
36025 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
36026 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
36027 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
36028 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
36029 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
36030 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
36031 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
36033 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
36034 case the controller wants to change that too.
36035 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
36036 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
36037 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
36038 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
36040 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
36041 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
36042 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
36044 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
36045 descriptors that they know they will reject.
36047 o Features and updates:
36048 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
36049 significantly faster.
36050 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
36051 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
36052 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
36053 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
36054 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
36055 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
36056 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
36057 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
36058 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
36059 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
36060 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
36061 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
36062 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
36063 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
36064 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
36065 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
36066 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
36067 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
36068 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
36069 as authoritative dirserver.
36070 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
36071 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
36072 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
36075 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
36076 o Usability improvements:
36077 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
36078 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
36080 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
36081 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
36082 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
36084 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
36085 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
36086 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
36087 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
36088 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
36089 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
36090 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
36091 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
36092 memory leaks better.
36093 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
36094 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
36095 their operators to pay close attention.
36096 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
36097 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
36099 o Performance improvements:
36100 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
36101 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
36102 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
36103 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
36104 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
36105 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
36106 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
36107 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
36108 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
36109 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
36110 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
36111 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
36112 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
36113 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
36114 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
36115 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
36116 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
36118 o Security improvements:
36119 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
36120 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
36121 fingerprint of server.
36122 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
36123 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
36124 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
36126 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36127 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
36128 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
36129 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
36130 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
36131 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
36132 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
36133 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
36134 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
36135 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
36136 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
36137 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
36138 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
36139 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
36140 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
36141 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
36142 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
36143 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
36144 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
36145 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
36146 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
36148 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
36149 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
36150 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
36152 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
36153 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
36155 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
36156 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
36157 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
36158 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
36159 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
36160 of the controller protocol.
36161 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
36162 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
36163 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
36166 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
36167 o New features (major):
36168 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
36169 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
36170 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
36171 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
36172 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
36173 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
36174 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
36175 we're using a default DirPort.
36176 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
36178 o New features (minor):
36179 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
36180 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
36181 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
36182 mirrors still cache and serve it).
36183 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
36184 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
36185 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
36186 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
36187 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
36188 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
36189 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
36190 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
36191 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
36192 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
36193 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
36194 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
36195 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
36196 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
36197 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
36199 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
36200 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
36201 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
36202 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
36203 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
36204 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
36205 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
36206 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
36208 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
36209 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
36210 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
36211 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
36212 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
36213 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
36214 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
36215 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
36216 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
36217 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
36219 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
36220 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
36221 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
36222 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
36223 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
36225 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
36226 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
36227 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
36229 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
36230 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
36232 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
36233 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
36234 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
36235 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
36236 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
36237 don't warn twice about the same name.
36238 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
36239 if we've not heard of the server.
36240 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
36241 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
36244 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
36245 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36246 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
36247 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
36248 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
36249 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
36250 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
36251 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
36252 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
36253 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
36254 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
36255 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
36256 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
36257 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
36258 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
36261 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
36262 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
36263 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
36264 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
36265 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
36267 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
36268 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
36269 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
36270 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
36271 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
36272 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
36276 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
36277 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
36278 nickname) is reachable by you.
36279 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
36282 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
36283 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
36284 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
36285 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
36286 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
36287 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
36288 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
36289 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
36290 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
36291 we fail to connect).
36292 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
36293 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
36294 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
36295 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
36297 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
36298 it was self-testing that told us so.
36301 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
36302 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
36303 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
36304 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
36305 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
36306 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
36307 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
36308 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
36309 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
36310 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
36311 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
36312 exit policy using him for any exits.
36313 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
36316 o New controller features/fixes:
36317 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
36318 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
36319 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
36320 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
36321 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
36322 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
36323 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
36324 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
36325 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
36327 o Start on the new directory design:
36328 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
36329 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
36331 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
36332 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
36333 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
36334 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
36336 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
36337 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
36338 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
36339 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
36340 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
36341 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
36342 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
36343 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
36346 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
36347 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
36348 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
36349 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
36350 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
36351 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
36352 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
36353 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
36354 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
36355 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
36357 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
36358 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
36359 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
36360 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
36361 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
36362 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
36363 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
36364 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
36365 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
36367 o Config option changes:
36368 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
36369 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
36370 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
36371 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
36372 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
36373 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
36375 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
36376 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
36377 people have started using them for spam too.
36378 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
36379 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
36380 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
36381 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
36382 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
36383 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
36384 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
36385 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
36386 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
36387 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
36388 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
36389 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
36390 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
36391 services faster on the service end.
36392 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
36393 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
36394 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
36395 it a fair shake next time we try.
36396 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
36397 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
36398 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
36399 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
36400 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
36401 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
36402 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
36403 able to discover them.
36404 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
36405 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
36406 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
36407 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
36408 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
36409 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
36410 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
36411 testing for reachability.
36412 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
36413 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
36415 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
36417 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
36418 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
36421 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
36422 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
36424 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36425 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
36426 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
36427 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
36430 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
36431 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36432 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
36434 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
36435 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
36438 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
36439 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
36442 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
36443 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
36444 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
36445 options, getinfo keys.
36448 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
36449 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36450 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
36451 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
36452 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
36453 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
36454 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
36456 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
36457 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
36461 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
36462 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
36463 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
36465 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
36467 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
36468 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
36469 circuit events and we go offline.
36470 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
36471 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
36472 you don't have enough intro points already.
36474 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
36475 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
36476 many bytes we've used in this time period.
36477 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
36478 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
36479 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
36480 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
36481 enabled by default yet.
36483 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
36484 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
36485 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
36486 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
36487 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
36490 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
36491 o New directory servers:
36492 - tor26 has changed IP address.
36494 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36495 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
36496 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
36497 pthreads libraries.
36498 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
36499 claims its dirport is 0.
36500 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
36501 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
36505 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
36506 o New directory servers:
36507 - tor26 has changed IP address.
36509 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
36510 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
36512 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
36513 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
36514 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
36515 ports that have changed.
36516 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
36518 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
36519 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
36520 Windows-style errno back.
36521 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
36523 want to make it an NT service.
36524 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
36525 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
36526 name, give the full name in our response.
36527 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
36528 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
36529 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
36530 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
36531 pthreads libraries.
36533 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
36534 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
36538 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
36539 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
36540 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
36541 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
36542 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
36545 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
36546 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
36547 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
36548 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
36549 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
36550 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
36551 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
36552 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
36555 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
36557 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
36558 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
36559 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
36560 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
36561 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
36562 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
36564 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
36565 temporarily unreachable.
36566 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
36570 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
36571 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
36572 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
36573 our protocol works.
36574 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
36578 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
36579 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
36580 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
36581 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
36582 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
36586 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
36587 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
36588 libevent before 1.1a.
36591 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
36593 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
36594 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
36595 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
36596 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
36597 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
36599 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
36600 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
36601 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
36602 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
36603 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
36604 of CPU time plus memory.
36605 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
36606 normal web requests.
36607 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
36608 tor_lookup_hostname().
36609 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
36610 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
36611 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
36612 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
36613 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
36614 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
36616 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
36617 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
36618 HttpProxyAuthenticator
36619 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
36620 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
36621 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
36623 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
36624 the user asks you to.
36625 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
36626 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
36627 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
36628 their descriptors are being rejected.
36629 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
36633 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
36635 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
36636 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
36637 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
36639 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
36641 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
36643 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
36644 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
36645 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
36646 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
36647 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
36648 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
36649 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
36650 keys) from the exit server's process.
36651 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
36652 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
36653 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
36654 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
36655 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
36656 point at your Tor server.
36657 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
36658 you're not sending a socks reply back.
36661 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
36662 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
36663 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
36664 to make it easier to write controllers.
36667 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
36669 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
36670 installing on Tiger.
36671 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
36672 complain during installation.
36673 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
36674 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
36675 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
36676 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
36677 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
36678 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
36680 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
36681 something more reasonable when first installing.
36682 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
36685 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
36687 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
36688 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
36690 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
36691 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
36692 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
36693 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
36694 when using the default exit policy.
36695 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
36696 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
36697 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
36698 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
36699 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
36700 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
36701 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
36702 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
36703 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
36704 we fetched a new directory.
36705 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
36706 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
36709 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
36710 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
36711 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
36712 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
36713 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
36714 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
36715 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
36716 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
36718 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
36719 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
36720 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
36721 save memory on systems that need to fork.
36722 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
36723 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
36724 is valid without actually launching Tor.
36725 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
36726 rather than just rejecting it.
36729 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
36731 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
36732 we didn't like its cert.
36734 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
36735 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
36736 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
36737 on patch from Adam Langley.
36738 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
36739 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
36740 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
36741 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
36743 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
36744 directory every time you regenerate it.
36745 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
36746 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
36749 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
36750 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36751 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
36752 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
36753 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
36756 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
36758 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
36759 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
36760 TLS errors better in other situations too.
36761 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
36762 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
36763 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
36764 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
36765 and don't log when you are.
36766 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
36767 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
36769 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
36770 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
36771 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
36772 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
36773 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
36776 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
36777 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
36778 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
36779 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
36780 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
36781 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
36782 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
36783 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
36784 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
36785 nickname+key are allowed.
36786 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
36787 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
36788 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
36789 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
36790 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
36791 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
36792 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
36793 have quite wrong clocks).
36794 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
36795 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
36796 - Efficiency improvements:
36797 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
36798 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
36799 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
36800 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
36801 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
36802 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
36803 lowercase and be done with it.
36804 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
36805 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
36806 to abandon partially built circuits.
36807 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
36808 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
36810 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
36812 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
36813 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
36814 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
36815 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
36817 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
36818 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
36820 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
36821 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
36822 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
36823 obeying the exit policy internally.
36824 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
36825 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
36827 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
36828 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
36829 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
36830 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
36832 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
36833 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
36834 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
36835 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
36836 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
36838 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
36839 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
36840 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
36841 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
36842 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
36843 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
36844 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
36845 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
36846 descriptors we just dropped.
36847 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
36848 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
36849 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
36850 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
36851 artificially capped at 500kB.
36854 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
36855 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36856 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
36857 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
36858 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
36859 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
36860 busy for more than 100 seconds.
36863 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
36864 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
36865 - Fixes on reachability detection:
36866 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
36867 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
36868 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
36869 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
36870 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
36871 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
36872 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
36873 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
36874 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
36875 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
36876 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
36877 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
36878 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
36879 server not already connected to them.
36880 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
36881 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
36882 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
36884 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
36886 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
36887 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
36888 are in a different state than they actually are.
36889 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
36890 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
36891 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
36893 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
36894 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
36895 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
36897 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
36898 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
36899 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
36900 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
36901 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
36902 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
36903 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
36905 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
36906 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
36907 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
36908 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
36911 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
36912 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
36913 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
36914 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
36915 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
36916 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
36917 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
36918 creating actual system users.
36919 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
36920 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
36924 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
36926 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
36927 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
36928 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
36929 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
36930 hidden services better.
36931 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
36933 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
36934 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
36935 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
36936 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
36937 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
36938 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
36939 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
36940 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
36941 patch by Matt Edman).
36942 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
36943 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
36944 required exit node for certain sites.
36945 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
36946 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
36947 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
36948 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
36949 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
36950 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
36951 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
36952 rather than just "success" or "failure".
36953 - A more sane version numbering system. See
36954 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
36955 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
36956 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
36958 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
36959 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
36960 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
36961 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
36962 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
36963 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
36964 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
36966 o Robustness/stability fixes:
36967 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
36968 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
36969 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
36971 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
36972 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
36973 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
36975 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
36976 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
36977 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
36979 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
36980 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
36981 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
36982 that will want high uptime circuits.
36983 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
36984 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
36985 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
36986 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
36987 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
36988 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
36989 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
36990 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
36991 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
36992 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
36993 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
36994 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
36995 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
36996 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
36997 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
36998 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
36999 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
37000 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
37001 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
37002 when we try to launch one.
37003 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
37004 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
37005 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
37006 "ShutdownWaitLength".
37007 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
37008 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
37009 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
37010 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
37011 and to take errno into account where possible.
37014 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
37015 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
37016 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
37017 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
37018 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
37019 file more reasonable.
37020 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
37021 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
37022 addresses -- it won't.
37023 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
37024 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
37025 for google.com" problem.
37026 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
37027 so it's not just "unknown platform".
37028 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
37029 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
37030 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
37031 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
37033 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
37034 they could use instead.
37035 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
37036 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
37037 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
37038 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
37039 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
37040 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
37041 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
37042 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
37043 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
37045 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
37049 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
37050 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
37052 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
37053 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
37054 private-IP addresses.
37055 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
37056 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
37058 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
37059 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
37060 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
37061 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
37062 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
37063 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
37064 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
37066 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
37067 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
37068 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
37069 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
37070 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
37071 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
37072 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
37073 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
37075 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
37077 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
37078 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
37079 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
37080 whether the server is hibernating.
37083 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
37084 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
37085 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
37086 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
37087 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
37088 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
37089 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
37090 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
37091 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
37092 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
37093 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
37094 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
37095 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
37096 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
37097 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
37099 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
37100 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
37101 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
37102 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
37103 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
37104 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
37105 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
37106 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
37107 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
37108 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
37109 existing torrc files.
37110 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
37113 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
37114 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
37115 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
37116 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
37117 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
37118 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
37119 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
37120 the win32 SYSTEM account.
37121 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
37122 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
37123 file descriptors available.
37124 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
37125 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
37126 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
37129 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
37130 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
37131 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
37132 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
37134 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
37135 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
37136 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
37137 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
37138 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
37140 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
37141 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
37142 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
37143 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
37144 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
37145 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
37146 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
37147 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
37148 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
37149 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
37150 800kB/s of capacity.
37151 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
37154 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
37155 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
37156 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
37157 need as much processor time.
37158 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
37159 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
37160 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
37161 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
37162 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
37163 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
37164 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
37165 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
37166 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
37167 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
37168 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
37169 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
37171 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
37172 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
37173 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
37174 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
37175 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
37176 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
37177 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
37180 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
37181 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
37182 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
37184 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
37185 style address, then we'd crash.
37186 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
37187 a dirserver is broken.
37188 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
37190 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
37191 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
37192 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
37194 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
37195 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
37196 name out of the warning/assert messages.
37197 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
37198 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
37199 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
37201 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
37202 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
37203 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
37205 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
37207 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
37208 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
37209 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
37210 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
37211 values at once couldn't work.
37212 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
37213 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
37214 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
37215 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
37216 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
37217 they can handle any number of routers.
37218 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
37219 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
37220 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
37221 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
37222 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
37223 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
37224 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
37225 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
37226 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
37229 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
37230 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
37231 - Make hibernation actually work.
37232 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
37233 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
37234 don't use the stream status code.
37237 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
37239 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
37240 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
37242 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
37245 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
37246 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
37247 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
37248 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
37249 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
37250 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
37251 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
37252 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
37253 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
37254 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
37256 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37257 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
37258 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
37259 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
37260 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
37261 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
37262 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
37263 - Make unit tests work on win32.
37266 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
37267 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
37268 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
37270 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
37271 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
37272 than just chopping them off.
37273 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
37275 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37276 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
37277 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
37278 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
37279 right after sending the begin cell.
37280 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
37281 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
37282 exit nodes too. Oops.
37285 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
37286 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
37287 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
37288 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
37289 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
37290 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
37291 the user knows which one it's talking about.
37292 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
37293 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
37294 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
37297 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
37298 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37299 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
37300 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
37302 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
37304 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
37305 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
37306 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
37308 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
37309 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
37310 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
37311 Clip rather than rejecting.
37312 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
37313 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
37316 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
37317 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
37318 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
37319 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
37321 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
37324 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
37325 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37326 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
37327 win32 socket errors better.
37329 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
37330 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
37333 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
37334 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37335 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
37336 so we don't see those messages days later.
37338 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
37339 - Make tor-resolve work again.
37340 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
37341 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
37344 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
37345 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
37346 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
37347 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
37349 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
37350 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
37351 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
37354 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
37355 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37356 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
37357 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
37358 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
37359 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
37360 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
37361 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
37362 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
37364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
37365 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
37366 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
37367 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
37369 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
37370 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
37373 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
37374 hibernation properties by
37375 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
37376 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
37377 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
37378 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
37379 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
37380 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
37381 get back to normal.)
37382 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
37384 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
37385 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
37386 to fill the last cell completely.
37387 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
37390 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
37391 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37392 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
37393 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
37394 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
37395 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
37396 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
37397 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
37398 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
37399 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
37400 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
37402 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
37403 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
37404 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
37405 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
37406 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
37407 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
37408 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
37409 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
37411 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
37412 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
37413 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
37414 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
37415 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
37416 have it on start-up.
37419 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
37420 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
37421 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
37422 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
37423 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
37424 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
37425 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
37426 configuration to torrc.
37427 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
37428 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
37429 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
37430 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
37431 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
37433 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
37434 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
37435 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
37436 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
37437 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
37438 log more informatively.
37439 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
37440 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
37441 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
37442 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
37443 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
37444 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
37445 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
37446 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
37447 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
37448 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
37449 from each other, to hinder linkability.
37452 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
37453 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
37454 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
37455 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
37456 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
37457 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
37458 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
37460 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
37461 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
37462 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
37463 they ran out of file descriptors.
37464 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
37465 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
37466 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
37467 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
37468 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
37469 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
37470 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
37472 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
37475 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
37476 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
37477 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
37478 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
37479 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
37480 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
37481 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
37482 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
37483 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
37484 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
37485 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
37486 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
37487 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
37488 with the control port.
37489 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
37490 use in authenticating to the control interface.
37491 - New log format in config:
37492 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
37493 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
37496 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
37497 from their dirserver.
37498 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
37500 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
37501 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
37502 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
37503 them act more like real nodes.
37504 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
37505 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
37507 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
37508 nickname to its identity key.
37509 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
37510 not on the command line.
37511 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
37512 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
37513 1024) file descriptors.
37515 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
37516 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
37518 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
37519 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
37520 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
37523 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
37524 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
37525 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
37526 exit policy, not reject *:*.
37527 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
37528 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
37529 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
37530 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
37531 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
37532 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
37533 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
37536 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
37537 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
37538 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
37539 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
37540 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
37541 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
37542 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
37545 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
37546 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
37547 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
37548 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
37549 the ones we find in directories.)
37550 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
37552 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
37553 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
37555 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
37556 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
37557 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
37559 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
37560 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
37561 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
37562 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
37564 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
37565 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
37566 any more exit policy lines.
37569 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
37570 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
37571 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
37572 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
37573 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
37574 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
37575 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
37576 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
37577 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
37578 will be able to get a directory.
37579 - Http proxy support
37580 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
37581 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
37582 be routed through this host.
37583 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
37584 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
37585 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
37586 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
37589 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
37591 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
37592 clients/servers with an open dirport.
37593 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
37594 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
37595 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
37596 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
37597 intermittent connections.
37598 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
37599 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
37601 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
37602 in reporting stats locally.
37603 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
37604 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
37605 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
37608 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
37610 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
37611 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
37614 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
37616 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
37617 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
37618 if you don't want it open.
37619 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
37620 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
37621 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
37622 intermittent connections.
37623 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
37625 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
37626 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
37627 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
37628 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
37629 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
37630 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
37631 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
37632 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
37633 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
37634 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
37635 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
37636 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
37637 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
37638 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
37639 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
37640 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
37643 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
37644 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
37645 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
37646 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
37647 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
37649 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
37651 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
37652 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
37653 specified in HTTP 1.0.
37654 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
37655 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
37656 than once per minute.
37657 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
37658 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
37661 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
37662 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
37665 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
37666 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
37667 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
37668 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
37671 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
37672 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
37674 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
37675 don't put it into the client dns cache.
37676 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
37677 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
37678 until we get our next directory.
37680 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
37681 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
37682 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
37683 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
37684 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
37685 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
37686 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
37687 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
37688 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
37689 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
37690 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
37692 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
37694 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
37695 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
37697 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
37698 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
37699 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
37701 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
37703 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
37704 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
37705 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
37706 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
37707 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
37708 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
37709 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
37710 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
37713 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
37714 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
37715 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
37716 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
37719 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
37720 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
37721 ask them to resolve the host "".
37724 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
37725 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
37726 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
37727 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
37728 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
37729 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
37730 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
37731 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
37732 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
37733 clients don't use this yet.)
37734 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
37735 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
37736 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
37737 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
37738 for pointing out this bug.)
37739 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
37740 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
37741 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
37742 kazaa, gnutella ports.
37743 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
37745 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
37746 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
37747 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
37748 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
37749 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
37750 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
37751 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
37752 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
37753 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
37754 wolf unpredictably.
37755 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
37756 that's still handshaking.
37757 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
37758 you'll choose it for your path.
37759 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
37760 end relay cell, etc.
37761 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
37762 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
37763 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
37766 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
37767 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
37769 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
37770 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
37771 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
37772 list to decide who's running or verified.
37773 - Bugfixes and features:
37774 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
37775 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
37776 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
37777 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
37778 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
37779 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
37781 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
37782 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
37783 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
37784 know you might want to get it verified.
37785 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
37788 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
37790 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
37791 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
37792 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
37793 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
37795 o Protocol changes:
37796 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
37797 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
37798 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
37799 hadn't heard of before.
37802 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
37803 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
37804 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
37805 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
37806 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
37807 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
37808 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
37809 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
37810 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
37811 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
37812 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
37813 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
37814 - Directory caching.
37815 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
37816 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
37817 directory they've pulled down.
37818 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
37819 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
37820 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
37821 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
37822 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
37823 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
37824 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
37826 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
37827 This isn't used yet.
37828 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
37829 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
37830 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
37831 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
37832 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
37833 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
37834 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
37835 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
37836 - File and name management:
37837 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
37838 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
37840 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
37841 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
37842 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
37843 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
37844 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
37845 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
37846 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
37848 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
37849 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
37850 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
37851 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
37852 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
37854 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
37855 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
37856 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
37857 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
37858 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
37859 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
37860 - New docs in the tarball:
37862 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
37865 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
37866 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
37867 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
37870 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
37871 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
37872 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
37875 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
37876 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
37879 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
37880 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
37881 - Make it build on Win32 again.
37882 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
37883 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
37887 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
37889 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
37890 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
37891 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
37892 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
37893 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
37894 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
37895 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
37896 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
37897 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
37898 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
37901 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
37904 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
37905 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
37906 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
37907 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
37909 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
37910 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
37911 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
37913 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
37914 hidden service per 15-minute period.
37915 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
37916 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
37917 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
37918 o Fixes for security bugs:
37919 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
37920 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
37921 a trusted dirserver.
37923 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
37924 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
37925 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
37926 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
37927 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
37928 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
37929 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
37930 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
37931 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
37932 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
37934 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
37935 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
37936 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
37937 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
37939 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
37940 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
37941 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
37942 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
37943 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
37944 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
37945 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
37946 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
37947 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
37948 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
37949 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
37950 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
37951 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
37954 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
37955 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
37956 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
37957 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37960 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
37961 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
37962 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
37963 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
37964 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
37965 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
37966 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
37970 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
37971 [version bump only]
37974 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
37975 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
37976 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
37977 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
37978 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
37980 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
37983 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
37984 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
37985 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
37986 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
37987 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
37988 o Better debugging for tls errors
37989 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
37990 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
37991 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
37992 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
37993 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
37994 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
37995 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
37996 o win32's close can't close a socket.
37999 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
38000 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
38001 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
38002 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
38003 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
38004 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
38005 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
38006 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
38007 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
38008 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
38009 just close the circ.
38010 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
38011 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
38012 (this was quite rare).
38015 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
38016 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
38017 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
38018 if you decrypted them correctly.
38019 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
38020 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
38021 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
38024 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
38025 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
38026 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
38027 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
38028 a second one and it works.
38029 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
38030 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
38031 alice would just have to wait to time out.
38032 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
38033 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
38034 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
38035 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
38036 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
38037 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
38038 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
38039 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
38040 i'd still like to find the bug though.
38041 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
38043 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
38047 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
38048 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
38049 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
38050 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
38051 he retries a couple of times
38052 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
38053 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
38054 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
38055 too long (they were sticking around forever).
38056 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
38060 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
38061 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
38062 - make hup work again
38063 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
38064 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
38065 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
38066 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
38067 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
38068 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
38070 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
38071 o changes from 0.0.5:
38072 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
38073 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
38074 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
38075 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
38076 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
38078 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
38079 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
38080 in-memory directories too
38083 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
38084 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
38087 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
38089 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
38090 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
38091 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
38092 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
38095 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
38096 [version bump only]
38099 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
38100 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
38102 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
38103 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
38104 but that aren't warnings
38107 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
38108 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
38109 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
38110 the dns farm to do it.
38111 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
38112 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
38114 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
38115 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
38116 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
38119 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
38120 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
38121 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
38122 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
38123 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
38124 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
38125 expect it to have a nickname.
38126 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
38127 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
38130 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
38131 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
38135 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
38136 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
38137 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
38138 - include missing header fcntl.h
38139 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
38140 - deal with hardware word alignment
38141 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
38142 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
38143 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
38144 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
38145 by kill -USR1 currently.
38146 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
38147 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
38148 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
38151 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
38152 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
38153 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
38156 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
38158 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
38159 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
38160 - And fix a few endian issues.
38163 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
38165 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
38166 try that circuit again: try a new one.
38167 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
38168 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
38169 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
38170 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
38171 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
38172 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
38174 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
38175 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
38176 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
38178 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
38180 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
38181 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
38182 side isn't reading right then.
38183 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
38184 RecommendedVersions
38185 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
38186 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
38187 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
38190 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
38192 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
38193 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
38196 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
38200 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
38202 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
38203 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
38204 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
38205 connection is finished.
38206 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
38207 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
38208 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
38209 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
38210 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
38211 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
38212 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
38213 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
38214 rather than warn and continue.
38215 - Make --version work
38216 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
38219 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
38221 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
38222 knows it's working.
38223 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
38224 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
38226 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
38227 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
38228 so you can collect coredumps there.
38230 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
38231 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
38232 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
38233 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
38234 dns cache actually gets populated.
38235 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
38236 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
38237 end cell down it first.
38238 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
38239 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
38242 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
38244 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
38245 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
38247 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
38248 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
38249 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
38250 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
38251 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
38252 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
38254 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
38256 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
38257 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
38258 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
38259 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
38260 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
38261 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
38263 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
38264 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
38267 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
38269 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
38270 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
38271 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
38272 tor. It even has a man page.
38273 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
38274 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
38275 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
38276 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
38278 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
38280 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
38283 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
38285 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
38286 it, apt-getters. :)
38287 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
38288 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
38289 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
38290 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
38291 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
38292 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
38293 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
38294 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
38295 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
38296 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
38297 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
38299 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
38300 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
38303 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
38305 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
38306 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
38309 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
38311 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
38312 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
38313 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
38314 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
38315 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
38316 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
38317 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
38318 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
38319 logfile so you know it's working.
38320 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
38321 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
38324 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
38326 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
38327 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
38328 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
38331 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
38333 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
38334 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
38335 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
38338 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
38339 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
38340 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
38342 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
38343 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
38345 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
38346 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
38347 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
38349 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
38350 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
38354 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
38356 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
38357 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
38358 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
38361 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
38362 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
38363 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
38364 - Add port ranges to exit policies
38365 - Add a conservative default exit policy
38366 - Warn if you're running tor as root
38367 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
38368 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
38369 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
38370 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
38372 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
38375 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
38376 o Robustness and bugfixes:
38377 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
38378 really screw things up.
38379 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
38381 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
38382 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
38384 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
38385 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
38386 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
38387 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
38388 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
38389 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
38392 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
38395 - Change default loglevel to warn.
38396 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
38397 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
38399 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
38402 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
38403 o Robustness and bugfixes:
38404 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
38405 - to get ownership/permissions right
38406 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
38407 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
38408 pull down a directory again
38409 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
38410 causing server crashes
38411 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
38412 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
38413 - exit if bind() fails
38414 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
38415 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
38416 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
38417 - fix minor bias in PRNG
38418 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
38421 - Wrote the design document (woo)
38423 o Circuit building and exit policies:
38424 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
38426 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
38427 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
38428 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
38429 exists, rather than failing
38430 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
38431 which AP connections are standing by
38432 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
38433 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
38434 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
38436 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
38437 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
38440 - APPort is now called SocksPort
38441 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
38443 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
38444 hardcoded (for dirservers)
38445 - Reloads config on HUP
38446 - Usage info on -h or --help
38447 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
38450 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
38451 o General stability:
38452 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
38453 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
38454 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
38455 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
38456 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
38457 to take down the network when I approve a new router
38458 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
38461 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
38462 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
38464 o Autoconf improvements:
38465 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
38466 - Make install now works
38467 - create var/lib/tor on make install
38468 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
38469 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
38471 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
38472 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
38473 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
38474 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup