1 Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
2 This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list.
3 Directory authorities running this version will now automatically
4 reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
6 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7 - Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
8 - New IP address and keys for tor26.
9 - Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
10 the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
11 combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
12 include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
15 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
16 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024.
18 o Minor features (geoip data):
19 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
20 retrieved on 2024/04/10.
22 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23 - Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another
24 directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27 Changes in version 0.4.8.10 - 2023-12-08
28 This is a security release fixing a high severity bug (TROVE-2023-007)
29 affecting Exit relays supporting Conflux. We strongly recommend to update as
32 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-007, exit):
33 - Improper error propagation from a safety check in conflux leg
34 linking led to a desynchronization of which legs were part of a
35 conflux set, ultimately causing a UAF and NULL pointer dereference
36 crash on Exit relays. Fixes bug 40897; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
38 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
39 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 08, 2023.
41 o Minor features (geoip data):
42 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
43 retrieved on 2023/12/08.
45 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, statistics):
46 - Correctly report statistics for client count over pluggable
47 transports. Fixes bug 40871; bugfix on 0.4.8.4.
50 Changes in version 0.4.8.9 - 2023-11-09
51 This is another security release fixing a high severity bug affecting onion
52 services which is tracked by TROVE-2023-006. We are also releasing a guard
53 major bugfix as well. If you are an onion service operator, we strongly
54 recommend to update as soon as possible.
56 o Major bugfixes (guard usage):
57 - When Tor excluded a guard due to temporary circuit restrictions,
58 it considered *additional* primary guards for potential usage by
59 that circuit. This could result in more than the specified number
60 of guards (currently 2) being used, long-term, by the tor client.
61 This could happen when a Guard was also selected as an Exit node,
62 but it was exacerbated by the Conflux guard restrictions. Both
63 instances have been fixed. Fixes bug 40876; bugfix
66 o Major bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2023-006):
67 - Fix a possible hard assert on a NULL pointer when recording a
68 failed rendezvous circuit on the service side for the MetricsPort.
69 Fixes bug 40883; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
71 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
72 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 09, 2023.
74 o Minor features (geoip data):
75 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
76 retrieved on 2023/11/09.
79 Changes in version 0.4.8.8 - 2023-11-03
80 We are releasing today a fix for a high security issue, TROVE-2023-004, that
81 is affecting relays. Also a few minor bugfixes detailed below. Please upgrade
84 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-004, relay):
85 - Mitigate an issue when Tor compiled with OpenSSL can crash during
86 handshake with a remote relay. Fixes bug 40874; bugfix
89 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
90 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 03, 2023.
92 o Minor features (geoip data):
93 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
94 retrieved on 2023/11/03.
96 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
97 - Look at the network parameter "maxunmeasuredbw" with the correct
98 spelling. Fixes bug 40869; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
100 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards addon support):
101 - Count the conflux linked cell as valid when it is successfully
102 processed. This will quiet a spurious warn in the vanguards addon.
103 Fixes bug 40878; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
106 Changes in version 0.4.8.7 - 2023-09-25
107 This version fixes a single major bug in the Conflux subsystem on the client
108 side. See below for more information. The upcoming Tor Browser 13 stable will
111 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
112 - Fix an issue that prevented us from pre-building more conflux sets
113 after existing sets had been used. Fixes bug 40862; bugfix
116 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
117 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 25, 2023.
119 o Minor features (geoip data):
120 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
121 retrieved on 2023/09/25.
124 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18
125 This version contains an important fix for onion service regarding congestion
126 control and its reliability. Apart from that, unneeded BUG warnings have been
127 suppressed especially about a compression bomb seen on relays. We strongly
128 recommend, in particular onion service operators, to upgrade as soon as
129 possible to this latest stable.
131 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
132 - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their
133 introduction points every consensus update. This caused
134 connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and
135 intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user
136 @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
138 o Minor features (debugging, compression):
139 - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential
140 compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739.
142 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
143 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023.
145 o Minor features (geoip data):
146 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
147 retrieved on 2023/09/18.
149 o Minor bugfix (defensive programming):
150 - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when
151 starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes
152 bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
154 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
155 - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or
156 answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate
157 published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug
158 40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
160 o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd):
161 - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run-
162 time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression
163 subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
166 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
167 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
168 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
169 failures and PoW unit test.
171 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
172 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
174 o Minor features (geoip data):
175 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
176 retrieved on 2023/08/30.
178 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
179 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
180 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
181 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
183 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
184 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
185 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
186 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
188 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
189 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
190 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
191 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
192 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
193 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
194 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
198 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
199 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making
200 Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329) available to the entire
201 network. Some major bugfixes since the release candidate detailed below.
203 o Major feature (denial of service):
204 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known
205 relays. Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS
206 protections onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix
209 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
210 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
211 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds
212 additional log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug
213 40834; bugfix on 0.4.8.3-rc.
215 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
216 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
217 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix
220 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
221 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
223 o Minor features (geoip data):
224 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
225 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
227 o Minor features (testing):
228 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
229 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
230 run as part of GitLab CI.
232 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
233 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
234 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
236 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
237 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
238 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
239 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
240 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
244 Changes in version 0.4.8.3-rc - 2023-08-04
245 This is the first release candidate (and likely the only) of the 0.4.8.x
246 series. We fixed a major conflux bugfix which was a fatal asserts on the
247 relay Exit side. See below for more details. Couple minor bugfixes. Until
248 stable, name of the game here is stabilization.
250 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
251 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux
252 circuit between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on
253 the conflux set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back-
254 pointer when the last leg is removed. Additional checks and log
255 messages have been added to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827;
256 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
258 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
259 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 04, 2023.
260 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 26, 2023.
262 o Minor features (geoip data):
263 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
264 retrieved on 2023/07/26.
265 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
266 retrieved on 2023/08/04.
268 o Minor features (bridge):
269 - warn when a bridge is also configure to be an exit relay.
272 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
273 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
274 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
276 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
277 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
278 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
281 Changes in version 0.4.8.2-alpha - 2023-07-12
282 This is our second alpha containing some minor bugfixes and one major bugfix
283 about L2 vanguard rotation. We believe this will be the last alpha before the
284 rc in a couple of weeks.
286 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
287 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the
288 Stable or Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in
289 the L2 vanguard list but never use them, and if all of our
290 vanguards end up like this we wouldn't have any middle nodes left
291 to choose from so we would fail to make onion-related circuits.
292 Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
294 o Minor feature (hs):
295 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
298 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
299 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on July 12, 2023.
301 o Minor features (geoip data):
302 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
303 retrieved on 2023/07/12.
305 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
306 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
307 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
308 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
309 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
310 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
311 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
312 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
313 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
315 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
316 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
317 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
318 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
320 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
321 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
322 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
323 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
324 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
325 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
326 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
327 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
329 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
330 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
331 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
332 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
333 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
334 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
336 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
337 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
340 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
341 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
342 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
343 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
344 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
345 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
348 Changes in version 0.4.8.1-alpha - 2023-06-01
349 This is the first alpha of the 0.4.8.x series. Two major features in this
350 version which are Conflux and onion service Proof-of-Work (PoW). There are
351 also many small features in particular, worth noting, the MetricsPort is now
352 exporting more relay and onion service metrics. Finally, there are
353 also numerous minor bugfixes included in this version.
355 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
356 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
357 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
358 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
359 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
360 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
362 o Major features (conflux):
363 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
364 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol.
365 These circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre-
366 built conflux pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used.
367 When using conflux circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency
368 circuit to send data to the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the
369 client, it maximizes throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits
370 in a multiplexed fashion. Alternatively, clients can request that
371 the Exit optimize for latency when transmitting to them, by
372 setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX latency'. Onion services
373 are not currently supported, but will be in arti. Many other
374 future optimizations will also be possible using this protocol.
377 o Major features (dirauth):
378 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with
379 directory authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they
380 would continue to upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to
381 the hard-coded address in the configuration. Now, if the directory
382 authority is listed in the consensus at a different address, they
383 will direct queries to this new address. Implements ticket 40705.
385 o Minor feature (CI):
386 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
388 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
389 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
390 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
392 o Minor feature (compilation):
393 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
394 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
397 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
398 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
399 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
400 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
402 o Minor feature (lzma):
403 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
405 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
406 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
409 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
410 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
411 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
413 o Minor features (directory authorities):
414 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
415 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
416 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
417 Implements ticket 40753.
419 o Minor features (directory authority):
420 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
421 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
422 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
423 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
424 40130; implements proposal 275.
426 o Minor features (network documents):
427 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
428 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
429 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
430 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
432 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
433 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
435 o Minor features (geoip data):
436 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
437 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
439 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
440 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
441 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
442 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
444 o Minor features (metrics):
445 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
446 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
447 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
448 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
450 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
451 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
452 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
454 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
455 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
456 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
458 o Minor features (relay):
459 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
460 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
462 o Minor features (relays):
463 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
464 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
465 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
466 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
468 o Minor features (tests):
469 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
470 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
472 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
473 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
474 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
476 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
477 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
478 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
479 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
480 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
482 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
483 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
484 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
486 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
487 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
488 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
489 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
491 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
492 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
493 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
495 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
496 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
497 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
499 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
500 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
501 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
502 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
503 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
504 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
505 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
506 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
508 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
509 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
510 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
511 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
514 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
515 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
516 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
519 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
520 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
521 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
522 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
523 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
524 congestion control fix detailed below.
526 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
527 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
528 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
529 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
530 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
531 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
532 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
534 o Major bugfixes (relay):
535 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
536 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
537 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
538 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
539 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
540 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
543 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
544 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
545 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
546 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
547 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
549 o Minor feature (authority):
550 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
552 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
553 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
555 o Minor features (geoip data):
556 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
557 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
559 o Minor features (relays):
560 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
561 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
562 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
563 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
566 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
567 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
568 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
570 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
571 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
572 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
573 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
575 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
576 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
577 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
578 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
581 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
582 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
583 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
584 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
587 o Major bugfixes (relay):
588 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
589 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
590 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
591 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
592 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
593 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
596 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
597 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
598 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
599 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
600 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
602 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
603 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
605 o Minor features (geoip data):
606 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
607 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
610 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
611 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
612 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
615 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
616 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
617 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
618 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
619 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
621 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
622 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
625 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
626 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
628 o Minor features (geoip data):
629 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
630 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
632 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
633 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
634 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
637 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
638 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
639 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
640 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
642 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
643 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
645 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
646 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
647 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
649 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
650 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
651 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
652 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
653 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
655 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
656 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
657 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
658 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
659 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
662 o Major bugfixes (relay):
663 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
664 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
666 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
667 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
669 o Minor features (geoip data):
670 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
671 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
674 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
675 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
676 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
677 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
680 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
681 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
683 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
684 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
685 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
686 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
688 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
689 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
690 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
691 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
692 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
694 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
695 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
696 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
697 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
698 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
700 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
701 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
702 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
703 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
704 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
707 o Major bugfixes (relay):
708 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
709 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
711 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
712 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
713 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
714 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
715 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
716 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
718 o Minor feature (metrics):
719 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
722 o Minor feature (performance):
723 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
724 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
725 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
727 o Minor feature (relay):
728 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
730 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
731 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
732 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
733 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
735 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
736 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
737 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
738 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
739 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
741 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
742 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
743 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
744 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
745 are currently opened and how many were created.
746 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
747 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
748 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
749 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
750 - Related to ticket 40194.
752 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
753 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
755 o Minor features (geoip data):
756 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
757 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
759 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
760 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
761 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
763 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
764 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
765 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
766 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
767 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
768 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
769 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
770 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
771 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
772 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
773 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
775 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
776 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
777 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
780 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
781 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
782 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
785 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
786 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
787 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
788 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
789 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
790 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
791 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
793 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
794 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
795 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
798 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
799 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
800 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
801 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
804 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
805 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
806 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
807 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
808 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
811 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
812 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
813 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
814 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
817 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
818 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
819 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
820 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
821 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
824 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
825 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
826 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
827 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
830 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
831 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
832 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
833 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
834 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
837 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
838 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
839 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
840 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
841 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
844 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
845 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
847 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
848 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
849 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
850 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
851 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
852 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
853 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
854 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
855 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
858 o Major bugfixes (relay):
859 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
860 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
861 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
862 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
863 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
864 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
865 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
867 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
868 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
869 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
870 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
871 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
874 o Minor features (dirauth):
875 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
876 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
877 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
878 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
879 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
880 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
881 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
882 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
885 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
886 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
888 o Minor features (geoip data):
889 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
890 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
892 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
893 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
894 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
895 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
896 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
897 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
898 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
900 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
901 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
902 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
903 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
904 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
906 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
907 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
908 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
909 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
912 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
913 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
914 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
915 stability or safety purposes.
917 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
918 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
919 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
921 o Major bugfixes (relay):
922 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
923 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
924 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
925 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
926 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
927 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
928 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
930 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
931 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
933 o Minor features (geoip data):
934 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
935 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
937 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
938 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
939 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
941 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
942 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
943 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
944 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
945 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
946 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
948 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
949 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
950 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
951 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
952 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
954 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
955 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
956 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
957 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
959 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
960 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
961 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
962 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
963 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
965 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
966 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
967 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
969 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
970 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
971 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
972 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
973 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
974 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
976 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
977 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
978 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
979 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
982 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
983 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
984 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
985 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
986 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
988 o Major bugfixes (relay):
989 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
990 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
991 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
992 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
993 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
994 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
995 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
997 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
998 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
1000 o Minor features (geoip data):
1001 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1002 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
1004 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1005 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
1006 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
1008 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1009 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1010 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1011 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1012 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1013 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1015 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
1016 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
1017 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
1018 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
1019 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1021 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1022 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
1023 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
1024 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
1026 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1027 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
1028 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
1029 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
1030 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1032 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1033 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
1034 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1036 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1037 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1038 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1039 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1040 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1041 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1043 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1044 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
1045 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
1046 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
1049 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
1050 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
1051 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
1052 should upgrade to this version.
1054 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
1055 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
1056 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
1057 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
1058 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
1059 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1061 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1062 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
1064 o Minor features (geoip data):
1065 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1066 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
1068 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1069 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
1070 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
1071 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
1073 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1074 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
1075 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
1076 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
1077 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1078 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
1079 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
1080 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
1081 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1083 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
1084 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
1085 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1088 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
1089 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series includes
1090 several major bugfixes from previous series and one massive new feature:
1093 Congestion control should improve traffic speed and stability on the network
1094 once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more details about it in
1095 proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
1097 For a complete list of changes since 0.4.6.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
1099 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1100 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
1102 o Minor features (geoip data):
1103 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1104 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1106 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1107 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down to
1108 info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix on
1112 Changes in version 0.4.7.6-rc - 2022-04-07
1113 This is the first release candidate of the 0.4.7.x series. Only one minor
1114 bugfix went in since the last alpha couple weeks ago. We strongly recommend
1115 anyone running an alpha version to upgrade to this version. Unless major
1116 problems are found, the next release will finally be the stable!
1118 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1119 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 07, 2022.
1121 o Minor features (geoip data):
1122 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1123 retrieved on 2022/04/07.
1125 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1126 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
1127 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
1130 Changes in version 0.4.7.5-alpha - 2022-03-25
1131 This version contains, of what we hope, the final work for congestion
1132 control paving the way to the stable version. We expect this to be the last
1133 alpha version of the 0.4.7.x series. Mostly minor bugfixes except one major
1134 bugfix that changes how Tor behaves with DNS timeouts for Exit relays. As
1135 always with an alpha, we recommend all relay operators to upgrade from
1136 previous alpha to this one.
1138 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
1139 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
1140 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
1141 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1143 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
1144 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
1145 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
1146 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
1147 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
1148 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1150 o Minor features (control port):
1151 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
1152 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
1154 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1155 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on March 25, 2022.
1157 o Minor features (geoip data):
1158 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1159 retrieved on 2022/03/25.
1161 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1162 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1163 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1165 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1166 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1167 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1168 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1171 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1172 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1173 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1174 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1175 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1177 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1178 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1179 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1180 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1183 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1184 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1185 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1186 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1189 Changes in version 0.4.7.4-alpha - 2022-02-25
1190 This version contains the negotiation congestion control work which is the
1191 final part needed before going stable. There are also various bugfixes
1192 including two major ones detailed below. Last, the Exit notice page layout
1193 has been modernized but the text is unchanged. We recommend that all relay
1194 operators running any previous alpha upgrade to this one.
1196 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
1197 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
1198 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
1199 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
1201 o Major bugfixes (client):
1202 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
1203 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
1204 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
1205 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
1206 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
1207 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1209 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1210 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
1211 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
1212 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1214 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1215 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
1218 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1219 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 25, 2022.
1221 o Minor features (geoip data):
1222 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1223 retrieved on 2022/02/25.
1225 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1226 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1227 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1229 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1230 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1231 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1234 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1235 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1236 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1237 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1240 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1241 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1242 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1244 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1245 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1246 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1249 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1250 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1251 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1252 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1255 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1256 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1257 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1259 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1260 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1262 o Minor features (geoip data):
1263 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1264 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1266 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1267 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1268 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1270 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1271 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1272 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1275 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1276 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1277 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1280 Changes in version 0.4.5.12 - 2022-02-04
1281 This version contains mostly minor bugfixes for which you can find the
1282 details below. The previous release (0.4.5.11) was suppose to update the
1283 GeoIP and fallbackdir lists but a problem in our release pipeline prevented
1284 those files to be updated correctly. Thus, this release regenerates up to
1285 date lists. Furthermore, another fix to highlight is that relays don't
1286 advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1288 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1289 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1290 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1293 o Minor features (compilation):
1294 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1295 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1296 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1297 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1300 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1301 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1303 o Minor features (geoip data):
1304 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1305 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1307 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1308 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1309 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1311 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1312 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1313 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1316 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1317 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1318 that does not support expanding statically initialized const
1319 values in macro's. Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
1320 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1321 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1322 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1323 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1325 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1326 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1327 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1329 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1330 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1331 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1332 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1333 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1336 Changes in version 0.4.7.3-alpha - 2021-12-15
1337 This third alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series fixes several bugs including
1338 two major ones affecting Bridges and Relays (see below). If you are running
1339 an earlier 0.4.7.x version, you should upgrade to this version.
1341 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1342 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1343 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1344 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1345 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1346 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1347 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1348 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1351 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1352 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1353 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1354 and not the DNS server itself.
1355 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1356 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1357 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1358 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1359 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1360 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1361 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1363 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1364 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1365 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1368 o Minor features (compilation):
1369 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1370 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1371 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1372 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1375 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1376 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1378 o Minor features (geoip data):
1379 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1380 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1382 o Minor features (portability):
1383 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1384 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1385 Closes ticket 40355.
1387 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1388 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1389 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1390 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1392 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1393 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1394 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1395 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1396 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1397 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1398 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1399 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1401 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1402 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1403 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1404 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1405 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1407 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1408 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1409 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1410 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1411 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1412 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1414 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1415 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1416 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1417 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1418 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1419 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1421 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1422 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1423 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1424 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1425 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1426 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1428 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1429 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1430 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1431 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1432 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1434 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1435 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1436 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1437 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1438 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1440 o Documentation (man, relay):
1441 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1442 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1445 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1446 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1447 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1448 See below for more details.
1450 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1451 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1452 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1453 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1454 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1456 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1457 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1458 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1461 o Minor features (compilation):
1462 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1463 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1464 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1465 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1468 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1469 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1471 o Minor features (geoip data):
1472 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1473 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1475 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1476 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1477 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1478 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1479 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1481 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1482 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1483 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1484 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1485 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1487 o Documentation (man, relay):
1488 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1489 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1492 Changes in version 0.4.7.2-alpha - 2021-10-26
1493 This second alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series adds two major
1494 features: congestion control (prop324) for network performance, and
1495 the MiddleOnly flag (prop335) voted by the authorities to pin relays
1496 to the middle position for various network health reasons. This
1497 release also fixes numerous bugs.
1499 The congestion control feature, detailed in proposal 324, still needs
1500 more work before we can enable it by default. It is currently in its
1501 testing and tuning phase which means that you should expect more
1502 0.4.7.x alphas as congestion control gets stabilized and tuned for
1503 optimal performance. And so, at this release, it can not be used
1504 without a custom patch.
1506 o Major features (congestion control):
1507 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1508 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1510 o Major features (directory authority):
1511 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1512 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1513 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1514 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1515 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1516 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1517 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1518 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1519 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1521 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1522 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1523 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1524 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1525 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1527 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1528 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1529 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1530 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1531 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1532 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1533 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1535 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1536 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1537 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1539 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1540 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1541 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1542 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1543 Closes ticket 40476.
1544 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1545 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1547 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1548 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1551 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1552 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1553 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1554 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1555 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1556 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1557 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1559 o Minor features (testing):
1560 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1561 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1564 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1565 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1566 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1568 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1569 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1570 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1571 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1574 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1575 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1576 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1577 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1578 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1579 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1580 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1581 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1583 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1584 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1585 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1586 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1588 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1589 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1590 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1591 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1593 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1594 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1595 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1597 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1598 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1599 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1600 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1602 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1603 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1604 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1605 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1606 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1607 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1608 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1609 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1610 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1613 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1614 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1615 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1616 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1618 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1619 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1620 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1621 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1622 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1624 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1625 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1626 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1627 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1628 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1631 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1634 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1635 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1636 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1638 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1639 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1640 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1644 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1645 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1646 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1649 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1650 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1651 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1652 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1653 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1654 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1655 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1657 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1658 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1661 o Minor features (testing):
1662 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1663 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1664 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1665 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1666 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1667 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1668 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1669 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1670 fix for ticket 40337.
1671 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1672 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1673 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1675 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1676 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1677 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1678 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1679 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1680 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1681 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1682 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1684 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1685 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1686 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1688 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1689 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1690 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1691 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1692 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1695 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1696 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1697 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1698 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1699 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1700 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1703 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1704 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1705 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1706 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1707 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1708 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1709 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1712 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1713 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1714 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1715 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1716 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1718 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1719 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1720 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1721 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1723 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1724 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1725 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1726 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1728 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1729 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1732 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1733 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1734 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1735 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1736 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1738 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1739 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1740 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1741 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1742 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1743 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1744 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1745 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1746 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1747 fix for ticket 40337.
1748 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1749 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1750 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1752 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1753 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1754 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1756 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1757 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1758 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1759 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1760 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1761 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1763 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1764 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1765 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1766 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1767 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1770 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1771 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1772 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1773 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1774 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1776 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1777 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1778 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1779 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1780 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1781 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1784 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1785 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1786 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1787 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1788 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1789 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1790 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1793 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1794 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1795 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1796 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1797 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1799 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1800 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1801 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1802 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1804 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1805 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1806 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1807 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1809 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1810 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1813 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1814 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1815 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1816 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1817 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1821 Changes in version 0.4.7.1-alpha - 2021-09-17
1822 This version is the first alpha release of the 0.4.7.x series. One
1823 major feature is Vanguards Lite, from proposal 333, to help mitigate
1824 guard discovery attacks against onion services. It also includes
1827 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1828 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1829 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1830 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1831 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1832 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1833 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1834 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1835 40363; implements proposal 333.
1837 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1838 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1839 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1840 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1842 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1843 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1844 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1845 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1847 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1848 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1849 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1850 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1851 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1852 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1853 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1854 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1855 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1856 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1857 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1858 fix for ticket 40337.
1859 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1860 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1861 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1863 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1864 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1865 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1866 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1868 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1869 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1870 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1871 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1872 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1875 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1876 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1877 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1878 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1879 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1881 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1882 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1883 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1884 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1886 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1887 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1888 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1889 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1891 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1892 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1893 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1894 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1895 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1896 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1898 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1899 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1900 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1901 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1903 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1904 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1905 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1908 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1909 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1911 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1912 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1915 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1916 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1917 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1918 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1919 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1921 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1922 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1923 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1924 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1925 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1926 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1927 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1928 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1930 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1931 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1933 o Minor features (geoip data):
1934 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1935 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1937 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1938 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1939 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1942 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1943 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid
1944 Address) for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix
1947 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1948 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW
1949 in order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug
1950 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1952 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1953 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1954 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1955 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1956 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1957 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
1958 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1961 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1962 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
1963 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
1964 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
1965 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1967 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1968 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
1969 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
1970 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
1971 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
1972 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
1973 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
1974 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
1976 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1977 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1979 o Minor features (geoip data):
1980 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1981 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1983 o Minor features (testing):
1984 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1985 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1988 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1989 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
1990 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
1993 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1994 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1995 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1997 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.7):
1998 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1999 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
2000 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
2001 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
2002 which could result in assertion failures when calculating voting
2003 schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2005 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.6):
2006 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
2007 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2010 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
2011 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor,
2012 including one that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone
2013 running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion
2014 service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
2016 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
2017 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between
2018 our batch-signature verification code and our single-signature
2019 verification code. This assertion failure could be triggered
2020 remotely, leading to a denial of service attack. We fix this issue
2021 by disabling batch verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on
2022 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and
2023 CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de Valence.
2025 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
2026 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
2028 o Minor features (geoip data):
2029 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2030 retrieved on 2021/08/12.
2032 o Minor bugfix (crypto, backport from 0.4.6.7):
2033 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna.
2034 Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry
2037 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.7):
2038 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2039 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2042 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
2043 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
2044 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
2045 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
2046 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
2048 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2049 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
2050 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
2051 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
2052 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
2053 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2055 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2056 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
2057 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
2061 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
2062 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2063 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2064 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2065 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2067 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2068 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2069 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2070 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2071 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2072 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2073 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2075 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2076 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2077 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2078 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2079 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2080 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2081 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2082 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2084 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2085 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2086 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2087 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2088 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2089 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2090 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2091 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2092 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2093 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2094 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2095 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2096 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2097 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2098 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2100 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2101 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2102 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2103 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2106 o Minor features (geoip data):
2107 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2108 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2110 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2111 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2112 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2113 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2114 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2115 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2118 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2119 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2120 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2124 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2125 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2126 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2127 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2128 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2130 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2131 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2132 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2134 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2135 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2136 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2137 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2138 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2139 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2140 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2142 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2143 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2144 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2145 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2146 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2147 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2148 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2149 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2151 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2152 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2153 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2154 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2155 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2156 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2157 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2158 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2159 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2160 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2161 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2162 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2163 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2164 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2165 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2167 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2168 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2169 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2170 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2173 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2174 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2175 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2177 o Minor features (geoip data):
2178 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2179 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2181 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2182 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2183 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2184 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2186 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2187 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2188 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2191 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2192 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2193 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2194 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2195 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2197 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2198 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2199 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2200 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2201 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2202 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2203 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2205 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2206 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2207 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2208 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2209 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2210 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2211 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2212 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2214 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2215 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2216 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2217 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2218 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2219 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2220 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2221 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2222 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2223 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2224 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2225 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2226 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2227 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2228 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2230 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2231 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2232 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2234 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2235 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2236 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2237 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2240 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2241 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2242 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2244 o Minor features (geoip data):
2245 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2246 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2249 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
2250 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
2251 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
2252 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
2253 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
2256 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
2257 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
2258 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
2259 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2261 Below are the changes since 0.4.6.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2262 since 0.4.5.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2264 o Major bugfixes (security):
2265 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2266 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2267 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2268 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2269 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2270 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2272 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
2273 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2274 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2275 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2276 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2277 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2278 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2279 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2281 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2282 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2283 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2284 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2285 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2286 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2287 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2288 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2289 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2290 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2291 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2292 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2293 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2294 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2295 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2297 o Minor features (geoip data):
2298 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2299 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2301 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2302 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
2303 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
2304 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
2305 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
2308 Changes in version 0.4.6.4-rc - 2021-05-28
2309 Tor 0.4.6.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous releases. This, we hope,
2310 the final release candidate in its series: unless major new issues are
2311 found, the next release will be stable.
2313 o Minor features (compatibility):
2314 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2315 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2316 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2319 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2320 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2321 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2322 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2323 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2325 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2326 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2327 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2328 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2329 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2330 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2333 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2334 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2335 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2339 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2340 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2341 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2344 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2345 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2346 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2348 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2349 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2350 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2351 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2352 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2354 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2355 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2356 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2358 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2359 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2360 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2362 o Minor features (geoip data):
2363 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2364 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2366 o Minor features (onion services):
2367 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2368 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2369 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2371 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2372 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2373 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2374 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2376 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2377 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2378 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2379 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2381 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2382 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2383 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2384 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2386 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2387 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2388 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2390 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2391 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2392 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2393 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2395 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2396 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2397 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2398 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2401 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2402 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2406 Changes in version 0.4.6.3-rc - 2021-05-10
2407 Tor 0.4.6.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
2408 a few small bugs from previous versions, and adds a better error
2409 message when trying to use (no longer supported) v2 onion services.
2411 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
2412 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
2413 be fairly simple. There will likely be at least one more release
2414 candidate before 0.4.6.x is stable.
2416 o Major bugfixes (onion service, control port):
2417 - Make the ADD_ONION command properly configure client authorization.
2418 Before this fix, the created onion failed to add the client(s).
2419 Fixes bug 40378; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2421 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox):
2422 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2423 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2424 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2425 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2427 o Minor features (compilation):
2428 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2429 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2431 o Minor features (geoip data):
2432 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2433 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2435 o Minor features (onion services):
2436 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
2437 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
2439 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation):
2440 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2441 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2442 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2444 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
2445 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2446 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2448 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2449 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2450 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2452 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak):
2453 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2454 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2455 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2458 Changes in version 0.4.6.2-alpha - 2021-04-15
2459 Tor 0.4.6.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes several
2460 small bugs in previous releases, and solves other issues that had
2461 enabled denial-of-service attacks and affected integration with
2464 o Minor features (client):
2465 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
2466 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
2467 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
2468 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
2470 o Minor features (command line):
2471 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
2472 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
2475 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2476 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
2477 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
2478 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2480 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
2481 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2482 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2484 o Minor features (geoip data):
2485 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2486 retrieved on 2021/04/13.
2488 o Minor features (logging):
2489 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
2490 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
2493 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport):
2494 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2495 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2496 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2498 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS):
2499 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2500 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2501 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2503 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2504 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2505 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2506 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2508 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2509 - Fix pattern-matching for directories on all platforms when using
2510 %include options in configuration files. This patch also fixes
2511 compilation on musl libc based systems. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix
2514 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2515 - Move the "overload-general" line from extrainfo to the server
2516 descriptor. Fixes bug 40364; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
2518 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2519 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2520 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2523 o Documentation (manual):
2524 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2526 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2527 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2528 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2529 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2532 Changes in version 0.4.6.1-alpha - 2021-03-18
2533 Tor 0.4.6.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.6.x series. It
2534 improves client circuit performance, adds missing features, and
2535 improves some of our DoS handling and statistics reporting. It also
2536 includes numerous smaller bugfixes.
2538 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.7. (Note that this release DOES
2539 include the fixes for the security bugs already fixed in 0.4.5.7.)
2541 o Major features (control port, onion services):
2542 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
2543 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
2544 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
2547 o Major features (directory authority):
2548 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
2549 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
2550 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
2551 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2553 o Major features (metrics):
2554 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
2555 documents. This information is controlled with the
2556 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
2557 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
2558 328; closes ticket 40222.
2560 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
2561 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
2562 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
2564 o Major features (statistics):
2565 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
2566 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
2567 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
2569 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
2570 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
2571 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
2572 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
2573 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
2574 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
2575 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
2576 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
2577 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
2578 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
2579 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
2580 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
2581 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
2582 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
2583 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
2584 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
2585 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
2586 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
2587 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
2588 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
2591 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
2592 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
2593 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
2594 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2596 o Minor features (bridge):
2597 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
2598 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
2599 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
2601 o Minor features (build system):
2602 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
2603 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
2604 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2606 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2607 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
2608 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
2609 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
2610 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
2611 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
2612 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
2613 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
2614 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
2615 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
2616 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2618 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2619 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2620 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2622 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2623 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2624 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2625 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2627 o Minor features (logging):
2628 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2629 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2630 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2631 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2632 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2633 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2635 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2636 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2637 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2638 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2639 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2641 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2642 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2643 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2645 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2646 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2647 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2650 o Minor features (vote document):
2651 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2652 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2653 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2655 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2656 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2657 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2658 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2660 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2661 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2662 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2663 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2666 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2667 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2668 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2669 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2671 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2672 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2673 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2674 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2675 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2676 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2678 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2679 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2680 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2681 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2682 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2684 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2685 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2686 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2687 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2688 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2690 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2691 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2692 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2693 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2695 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2696 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2697 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2698 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2700 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2701 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2702 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2703 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2706 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2707 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2708 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2709 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2710 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2711 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2712 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2715 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2716 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2717 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2719 o Removed features (relay):
2720 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2721 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2722 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2723 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2724 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2727 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2728 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2729 in earlier versions of Tor.
2731 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2732 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2733 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2734 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2735 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2736 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2737 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2738 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2739 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2742 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2743 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2746 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2747 compatibility issue.
2749 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2750 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2751 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2752 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2753 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2754 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2755 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2756 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2757 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2760 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2761 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2762 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2763 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2764 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2765 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2766 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2767 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2770 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2771 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2772 Closes ticket 40309.
2775 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2776 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2777 in earlier versions of Tor.
2779 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2780 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2781 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2782 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2783 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2784 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2785 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2786 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2787 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2790 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2791 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2794 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2795 compatibility issue.
2797 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2798 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2799 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2800 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2801 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2802 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2803 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2804 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2805 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2808 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2809 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2810 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2811 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2812 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2813 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2814 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2815 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2818 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2819 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2820 Closes ticket 40309.
2823 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2824 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2827 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2828 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2829 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2830 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2831 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2832 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2833 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2834 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2835 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2838 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2839 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2842 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2843 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2845 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2846 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2847 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2848 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2849 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2850 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2851 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2852 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2853 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2856 o Minor features (geoip data):
2857 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2858 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2859 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2860 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2861 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2862 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2863 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2866 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2867 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2868 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2869 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2870 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2872 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2873 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2874 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2876 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2877 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2878 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2879 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2880 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2882 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2883 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2884 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2886 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2887 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2888 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2890 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2891 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2892 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2894 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2895 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2896 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2897 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2898 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2899 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2900 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2901 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2903 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2904 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2905 Closes ticket 40309.
2908 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2909 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2910 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2911 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2912 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2913 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2914 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2915 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2916 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2917 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2919 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2920 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2921 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2922 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2923 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2924 smaller features and bugfixes.
2926 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
2927 since 0.4.4.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
2929 o Major bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
2930 - Fix a bug that prevented a relay from publishing its descriptor if
2931 an auto-discovered IPv6 that was found unreachable. Fixes bug
2932 40279; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2934 o Minor features (protocol versions):
2935 - Stop claiming to support the "DirCache=1" subprotocol version.
2936 Technically, we stopped supporting this subprotocol back in
2937 0.4.5.1-alpha, but we needed to wait for the authorities to stop
2938 listing it as "required" before we could drop it from the list.
2939 Closes ticket 40221.
2941 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2942 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2943 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2944 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2945 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2946 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2948 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2949 - Fix a bug warning when a metrics port socket was unexpectedly
2950 closed. Fixes bug 40257; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha
2952 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2953 - Allow relays to have a RFC1918 address if PublishServerDescriptor
2954 is set to 0 and AssumeReachable is set to 1. This is to support
2955 the use case of a bridge on a local network, exposed via a
2956 pluggable transport. Fixes bug 40208; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2958 o Minor bugfixes (relay, config):
2959 - Fix a problem in the removal of duplicate ORPorts from the
2960 internal port list when loading the config file. We were removing
2961 the wrong ports, breaking valid torrc uses cases for multiple
2962 ORPorts of the same address family. Fixes bug 40289; bugfix
2966 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2967 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2968 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2969 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2970 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2972 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2973 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2974 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2975 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2976 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2979 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2980 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2981 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2982 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2985 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2986 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2987 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2988 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2990 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2991 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2992 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2993 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2994 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2996 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2997 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2998 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2999 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3000 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3001 weasel for diagnosing this.
3003 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3004 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3005 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3006 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3007 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3008 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3009 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3011 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3012 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3013 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3014 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3016 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3017 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3018 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3019 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3021 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3022 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3023 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3024 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3025 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3026 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3027 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3029 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3030 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3033 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
3034 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3035 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3036 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3037 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3039 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
3040 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
3042 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3043 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3044 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3045 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3046 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3049 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3050 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3051 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3052 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3053 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3055 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3056 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3057 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3058 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3061 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3062 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3063 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3064 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3066 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3067 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3068 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3069 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3070 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3072 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3073 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3074 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3075 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3076 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3077 weasel for diagnosing this.
3079 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3080 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3081 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3082 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3083 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3084 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3085 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3087 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3088 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3089 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3091 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3092 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3093 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3094 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3096 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3097 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3098 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3099 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3101 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3102 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3103 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3104 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3105 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3106 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3107 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3109 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3110 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3113 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3114 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3115 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3116 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3117 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3119 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3120 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3121 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3122 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3123 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3126 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3127 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3128 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3129 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3130 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3132 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3133 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3134 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3135 should help mitigate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3138 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3139 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3140 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3141 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3143 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3144 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3145 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3146 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3147 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3149 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3150 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3151 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3152 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3153 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3154 weasel for diagnosing this.
3156 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3157 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3158 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3159 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3160 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3161 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3162 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3165 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3166 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3168 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3169 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3170 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3171 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3173 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3174 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3175 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3176 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3178 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3179 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3180 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3181 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3183 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3184 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3187 Changes in version 0.4.5.5-rc - 2021-02-01
3188 Tor 0.4.5.5-rc is the third release candidate in its series. We're
3189 coming closer and closer to a stable release series. This release
3190 fixes an annoyance with address detection code, and somewhat mitigates
3191 an ongoing denial-of-service attack.
3193 We anticipate no more code changes between this and the stable
3194 release, though of course that could change.
3196 o Major feature (exit):
3197 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3198 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3199 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3202 o Minor bugfixes (relay, configuration):
3203 - Don't attempt to discover our address (IPv4 or IPv6) if no ORPort
3204 for it can be found in the configuration. Fixes bug 40254; bugfix
3208 Changes in version 0.4.5.4-rc - 2021-01-22
3209 Tor 0.4.5.4-rc is the second release candidate in its series. It fixes
3210 several bugs present in previous releases.
3212 We expect that the stable release will be the same, or almost the
3213 same, as this release candidate, unless serious bugs are found.
3215 o Major bugfixes (authority, IPv6):
3216 - Do not consider multiple relays in the same IPv6 /64 network to be
3217 sybils. Fixes bug 40243; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3219 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
3220 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
3221 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
3222 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
3223 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3225 o Minor feature (build system):
3226 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3227 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3228 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3230 o Minor features (authority, logging):
3231 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
3232 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
3233 Closes ticket 40245.
3234 - Reject obsolete router/extrainfo descriptors earlier and more
3235 quietly, to avoid spamming the logs. Fixes bug 40238; bugfix
3238 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3239 - Fix another warning about unreachable fallthrough annotations when
3240 building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on some compilers.
3241 Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.4.5.3-rc.
3242 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
3243 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
3244 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
3246 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3247 - Don't initiate a connection to a bridge configured to use a
3248 missing transport. This change reverts an earlier fix that would
3249 try to avoid such situations during configuration chcecking, but
3250 which doesn't work with DisableNetwork. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix
3253 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
3254 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
3255 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
3256 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
3258 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
3259 - If we were unable to build our descriptor, don't mark it as having
3260 been advertised. Also remove an harmless BUG(). Fixes bug 40231;
3261 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3264 Changes in version 0.4.5.3-rc - 2021-01-12
3265 Tor 0.4.5.3-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
3266 several bugs, including one that broke onion services on certain older
3267 ARM CPUs, and another that made v3 onion services less reliable.
3269 Though we anticipate that we'll be doing a bit more clean-up between
3270 now and the stable release, we expect that our remaining changes will
3271 be fairly simple. There will be at least one more release candidate
3272 before 0.4.5.x is stable.
3274 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
3275 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3276 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3277 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3278 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3281 o Minor features (crypto):
3282 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3283 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3284 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3285 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3286 weasel for diagnosing this.
3288 o Minor features (documentation):
3289 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
3290 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
3291 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
3293 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3294 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3295 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3296 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3297 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
3298 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
3301 o Minor bugfixes (config, bridge):
3302 - Really fix the case where torrc has a missing ClientTransportPlugin
3303 but is configured with a Bridge line and UseBridges. Previously,
3304 we didn't look at the managed proxy list and thus would fail for
3305 the "exec" case. Fixes bug 40106; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3307 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
3308 - Log our address as reported by the directory authorities, if none
3309 was configured or detected before. Fixes bug 40201; bugfix
3311 - When a launching bandwidth testing circuit, don't incorrectly call
3312 it a reachability test, or trigger a "CHECKING_REACHABILITY"
3313 control event. Fixes bug 40205; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3315 o Minor bugfixes (relay, statistics):
3316 - Report the correct connection statistics in our extrainfo
3317 documents. Previously there was a problem in the file loading
3318 function which would wrongly truncate a state file, causing the
3319 wrong information to be reported. Fixes bug 40226; bugfix
3322 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5):
3323 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3324 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3325 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3328 Changes in version 0.4.5.2-alpha - 2020-11-23
3329 Tor 0.4.5.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series.
3330 It fixes several bugs present in earlier releases, including one that
3331 made it impractical to run relays on Windows. It also adds a few small
3332 safety features to improve Tor's behavior in the presence of strange
3333 compile-time options, misbehaving proxies, and future versions
3336 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
3337 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
3338 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
3339 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
3340 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
3341 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
3342 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3344 o Minor features (compilation):
3345 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3346 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3347 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3348 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3350 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
3351 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
3352 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
3353 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
3354 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
3356 o Minor features (safety):
3357 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
3358 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
3361 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
3362 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
3363 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
3364 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
3365 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
3366 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3369 - Use the correct 'ranlib' program when building libtor.a.
3370 Previously we used the default ranlib, which broke some kinds of
3371 cross-compilation. Fixes bug 40172; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3372 - Remove a duplicate typedef in metrics_store.c. Fixes bug 40177;
3373 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3374 - When USDT tracing is enabled, and STAP_PROBEV() is missing, don't
3375 attempt to build. Linux supports that macro but not the BSDs.
3376 Fixes bug 40174; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3378 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
3379 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
3380 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
3381 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
3382 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
3383 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
3385 - Fix an issue where an ORPort was compared with other kinds of
3386 ports, when it should have been only checked against other
3387 ORPorts. This bug would lead to "DirPort auto" getting ignored.
3388 Fixes bug 40195; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3389 - Fix a bug where a second non-ORPort with a variant family (ex:
3390 SocksPort [::1]:9050) would be ignored due to a configuration
3391 parsing error. Fixes bug 40183; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3393 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
3394 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
3395 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
3396 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3398 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3399 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
3400 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
3402 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
3403 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
3404 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3406 o Minor bugfixes (relay, address discovery):
3407 - Don't trigger an IP change when no new valid IP can be found.
3408 Fixes bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3409 - When attempting to discover our IP, use a simple test circuit,
3410 rather than a descriptor fetch: the same address information is
3411 present in NETINFO cells, and is better authenticated there. Fixes
3412 bug 40071; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
3414 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3415 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3416 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3417 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3418 - Fix unit tests that used newly generated list of routers so that
3419 they check them with respect to the date when they were generated,
3420 not with respect to the current time. Fixes bug 40187; bugfix
3422 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3423 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3424 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3426 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3427 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3429 o Removed features (controller):
3430 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3431 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3434 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3435 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3436 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3437 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3438 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3439 intended for a different relay.
3441 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3442 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3443 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3444 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3445 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3446 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3447 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3449 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3450 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3451 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3452 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3453 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3454 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3455 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3456 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3457 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3458 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3459 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3461 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3462 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3463 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3464 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3465 closes ticket 40133.
3467 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3468 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3469 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3471 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3472 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3473 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3475 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3476 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3477 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3478 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3479 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3480 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3482 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3483 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3484 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3486 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3487 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3488 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3491 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3492 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3493 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3494 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3497 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3498 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3499 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3500 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3501 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3503 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3504 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3505 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3508 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3509 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3510 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3511 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3513 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3514 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3515 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3516 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3517 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3518 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3519 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3521 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3522 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3523 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3524 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3525 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3528 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3529 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3530 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3531 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3532 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3533 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3535 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3536 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3537 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3538 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3539 closes ticket 40133.
3541 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3542 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3543 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3544 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3546 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3547 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3548 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3550 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3551 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3552 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3554 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3555 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3556 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3557 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3558 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3560 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3561 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3562 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3564 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3565 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3566 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3567 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3568 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3569 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3570 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3572 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3573 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3574 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3577 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3578 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3579 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3580 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3581 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3582 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3585 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3586 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3587 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3588 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3590 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3591 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3592 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3593 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3595 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3596 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3597 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3599 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3600 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3603 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3604 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3605 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3606 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3607 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3608 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3609 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3612 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3613 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3614 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3615 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3616 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3618 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3619 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3620 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3621 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3623 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3624 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3625 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3626 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3627 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3628 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3629 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3631 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3632 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3633 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3634 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3635 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3638 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3639 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3640 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3641 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3642 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3643 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3645 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3646 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3647 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3648 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3650 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3651 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3652 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3653 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3654 closes ticket 40133.
3656 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3657 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3658 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3659 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3661 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3662 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3663 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3665 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3666 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3667 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3669 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3670 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3671 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3672 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3673 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3675 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3676 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3677 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3679 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3680 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3681 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3682 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3683 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3684 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3685 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3687 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3688 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3689 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3692 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3693 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3694 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3695 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3696 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3697 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3700 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3701 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3702 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3703 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3705 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3706 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3707 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3708 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3710 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3711 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3712 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3714 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3715 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3719 Changes in version 0.4.5.1-alpha - 2020-11-01
3720 Tor 0.4.5.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.4.5.x series. It
3721 improves support for IPv6, address discovery and self-testing, code
3722 metrics and tracing.
3724 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3725 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3726 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay. To
3727 mount this attack, the adversary would need to actively extend
3728 circuits to an incorrect address, as well as compromise a relay's
3729 legacy RSA-1024 key. We'll be backporting this fix to other release
3730 series soon, after it has had some testing.
3732 Here are the changes since 0.4.4.5.
3734 o Major features (build):
3735 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
3736 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
3737 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
3738 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
3739 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
3741 o Major features (metrics):
3742 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
3743 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
3744 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
3745 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
3746 information and security considerations.
3747 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
3748 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
3749 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
3750 Closes ticket 33233.
3751 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
3752 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
3753 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
3754 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
3755 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
3756 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
3757 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
3758 use. Closes ticket 33220.
3759 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
3760 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
3761 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
3762 Closes ticket 34067.
3764 o Major features (tracing):
3765 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
3766 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
3767 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
3768 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
3769 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
3771 o Major bugfixes (security):
3772 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3773 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3774 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3775 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3776 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3777 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3779 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
3780 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
3781 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
3782 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
3783 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
3784 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
3786 o Minor features (address discovery):
3787 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
3788 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
3789 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
3790 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
3792 o Minor features (admin tools):
3793 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
3794 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
3795 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
3798 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3799 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
3800 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
3801 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
3802 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
3803 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
3805 o Minor features (build):
3806 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
3807 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
3808 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
3809 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
3810 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
3812 o Minor features (configuration):
3813 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
3814 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3815 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
3816 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
3817 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
3818 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3820 o Minor features (control port):
3821 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
3822 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
3823 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
3824 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
3826 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
3827 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
3828 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
3831 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
3832 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
3833 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
3834 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
3835 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
3836 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
3837 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3839 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3840 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3841 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3842 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3843 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3844 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3845 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3846 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
3847 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
3849 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
3850 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
3851 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3852 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3853 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3854 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3855 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3856 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
3857 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
3858 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
3859 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
3860 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
3861 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
3862 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
3863 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
3865 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
3866 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
3867 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
3868 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
3870 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
3871 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
3872 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
3873 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3875 o Minor features (heartbeat):
3876 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
3877 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
3879 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
3880 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
3881 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3883 o Minor features (logging):
3884 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
3885 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
3886 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
3887 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
3888 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
3889 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
3891 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
3892 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
3893 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
3894 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
3896 o Minor features (onion services):
3897 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
3898 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
3899 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3901 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
3902 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
3903 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
3904 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
3905 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
3906 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
3908 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
3909 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
3910 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
3911 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
3912 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
3913 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
3914 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
3916 o Minor features (relay):
3917 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
3918 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
3919 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
3920 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
3921 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
3922 Closes ticket 34137.
3924 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
3925 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
3926 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
3929 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
3930 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
3931 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
3932 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
3933 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
3934 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
3935 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
3936 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
3937 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
3939 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
3940 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
3942 o Minor features (specification update):
3943 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
3944 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
3945 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
3947 o Minor features (state management):
3948 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
3949 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
3950 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
3951 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
3952 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
3954 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
3955 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
3956 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
3957 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
3958 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
3960 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
3961 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3962 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3963 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3964 closes ticket 40133.
3965 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
3966 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
3968 o Minor features (testing configuration):
3969 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
3970 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
3971 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
3972 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
3974 o Minor features (testing):
3975 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
3976 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3978 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services):
3979 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3980 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3982 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3983 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3984 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3986 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
3987 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
3988 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
3989 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
3991 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
3992 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
3993 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3994 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
3995 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
3996 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
3997 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
3998 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
3999 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4001 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
4002 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
4003 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
4004 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
4005 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
4006 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
4007 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
4009 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4010 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
4011 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
4012 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4013 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
4014 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
4016 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
4017 - Fix bug where %including a pattern ending with */ would include
4018 files and folders (instead of folders only) in versions of glibc <
4019 2.19. Fixes bug 40141; bugfix on 0.4.5.0-alpha-dev. Patch by
4022 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
4023 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
4024 when a stream is attached with the purpose
4025 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
4026 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4028 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4029 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
4030 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
4031 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
4032 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
4033 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
4034 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
4035 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
4038 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash):
4039 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
4040 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
4043 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
4044 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
4045 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
4046 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4047 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
4048 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
4049 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
4051 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
4052 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
4053 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
4054 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
4055 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
4056 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4058 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
4059 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
4060 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
4062 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
4063 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
4064 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
4065 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
4066 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
4067 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
4068 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
4069 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4071 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services):
4072 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
4073 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
4074 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4076 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4077 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
4078 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
4079 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
4080 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
4081 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
4082 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
4083 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
4084 Closes ticket 34200.
4085 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
4086 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
4087 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
4088 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
4089 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
4090 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
4091 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
4093 - Split implementation of several command line options from
4094 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
4095 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
4096 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
4097 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
4098 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
4101 o Deprecated features:
4102 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
4103 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
4104 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
4107 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
4108 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
4111 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
4112 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
4113 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
4114 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
4116 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
4117 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
4119 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
4120 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
4121 directory. Closes part of 40139.
4122 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
4123 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
4127 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
4128 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4130 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
4131 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
4132 31699; Patch by @bduszel
4134 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
4135 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
4136 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
4137 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
4138 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
4140 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4141 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
4142 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
4143 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
4144 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
4146 o Documentation (manual page):
4147 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
4148 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
4149 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
4150 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
4152 o Documentation (tracing):
4153 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
4154 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
4157 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
4158 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
4159 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
4160 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
4161 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
4162 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
4163 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4165 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4166 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4167 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4168 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
4169 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
4171 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
4172 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
4173 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
4175 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4176 since 0.4.3.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4178 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
4179 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
4180 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
4181 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
4182 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
4183 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4185 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
4186 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
4187 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
4188 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
4189 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
4191 o Minor features (control port):
4192 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
4193 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
4194 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4196 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
4197 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
4198 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
4199 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
4200 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
4201 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
4203 o Minor features (tests):
4204 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
4205 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
4206 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
4208 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection algorithm):
4209 - Avoid needless guard-related warning when upgrading from 0.4.3 to
4210 0.4.4. Fixes bug 40105; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4212 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
4213 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
4214 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
4215 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4218 Changes in version 0.4.4.3-alpha - 2020-07-27
4219 Tor 0.4.4.3-alpha fixes several annoyances in previous versions,
4220 including one affecting NSS users, and several affecting the Linux
4223 o Major features (fallback directory list):
4224 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
4225 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
4226 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
4228 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
4229 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
4230 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
4231 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
4232 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
4235 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
4236 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
4237 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
4238 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
4239 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
4241 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
4242 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
4243 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
4244 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
4247 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
4248 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
4249 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
4250 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
4251 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
4252 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
4256 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
4257 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
4258 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
4261 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
4262 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
4263 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
4264 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
4265 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
4266 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
4269 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
4270 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
4271 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
4273 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4274 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4275 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4276 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4277 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4278 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4279 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4282 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4283 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4284 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4285 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4288 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4289 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4290 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4291 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4292 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4293 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4295 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4296 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4297 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4298 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4299 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4300 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4302 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4303 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4304 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4306 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4307 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4308 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4309 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4312 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4313 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4314 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4315 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4318 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4319 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4320 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4321 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4322 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4324 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4325 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4326 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4328 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4329 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4330 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4331 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4332 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4335 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4336 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4337 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4338 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4339 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4340 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4342 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4343 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4344 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4345 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4347 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4348 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4349 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4350 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4353 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4354 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4355 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4356 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4357 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4358 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4359 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4360 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4364 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4365 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4366 several that affect usability and portability.
4368 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4369 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4370 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4371 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4372 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4373 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4374 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4377 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4378 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4379 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4380 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4383 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4384 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4385 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4386 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4387 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4388 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4390 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4391 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4392 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4393 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4394 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4396 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4397 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4398 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4399 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4401 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4402 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4403 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4404 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4405 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4406 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4408 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4409 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4410 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4412 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4413 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4414 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4415 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4418 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4419 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4420 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4421 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4424 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4425 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4426 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4427 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4428 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4429 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4432 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4433 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4434 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4436 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4437 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4438 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4439 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4441 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4442 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4443 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4444 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4445 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4448 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4449 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4450 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4451 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4452 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4453 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4455 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4456 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4457 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4458 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4459 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4461 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4462 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4463 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4464 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4466 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4467 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4468 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4469 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4471 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4472 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4473 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4474 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4477 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4478 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4479 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4480 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4481 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4482 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4483 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4484 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4488 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4489 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4490 some affecting usability.
4492 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4493 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4494 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4495 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4496 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4497 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4498 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4501 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4502 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4503 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4504 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4507 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4508 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4509 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4511 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4512 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4513 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4514 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4517 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4518 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4519 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4521 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4522 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4523 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4524 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4526 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4527 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4528 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4529 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4531 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4532 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4533 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4535 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4536 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4537 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4538 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4539 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4541 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4542 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4543 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4545 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4546 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4547 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4548 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4550 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4551 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4555 Changes in version 0.4.4.2-alpha - 2020-07-09
4556 This is the second alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It fixes a few
4557 bugs in the previous release, and solves a few usability,
4558 compatibility, and portability issues.
4560 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4561 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4562 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4563 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4564 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4565 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4566 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4569 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security):
4570 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4571 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4572 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4575 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
4576 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
4577 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
4578 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
4579 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
4582 o Minor features (directory authority):
4583 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
4584 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
4585 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
4586 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
4587 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
4589 o Minor features (entry guards):
4590 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
4591 Closes ticket 40001.
4593 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
4594 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
4595 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
4596 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
4597 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
4598 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
4599 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
4601 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows):
4602 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4603 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4605 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3 client):
4606 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
4607 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4609 o Minor bugfix (SOCKS, onion service client):
4610 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
4611 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
4614 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
4615 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4616 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4618 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
4619 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
4620 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
4621 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
4623 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4624 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4625 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4626 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4628 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4629 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
4630 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
4633 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4634 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4637 o Removed features (IPv6, revert):
4638 - Revert the change in the default value of ClientPreferIPv6OrPort:
4639 it breaks the torsocks use case. The SOCKS resolve command has no
4640 mechanism to ask for a specific address family (v4 or v6), and so
4641 prioritizing IPv6 when an IPv4 address is requested on the SOCKS
4642 interface resulted in a failure. Tor Browser explicitly sets
4643 PreferIPv6, so this should not affect the majority of our users.
4644 Closes ticket 33796; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
4647 Changes in version 0.4.4.1-alpha - 2020-06-16
4648 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.4.x series. It improves
4649 our guard selection algorithms, improves the amount of code that
4650 can be disabled when running without relay support, and includes numerous
4651 small bugfixes and enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6
4652 features that we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
4654 Here are the changes since 0.4.3.5.
4656 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
4657 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
4658 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
4659 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
4660 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
4661 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
4662 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
4663 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
4664 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
4665 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
4667 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
4668 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
4669 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
4670 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
4671 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
4672 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
4673 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
4675 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
4677 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
4678 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
4679 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
4680 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
4682 o Major features (v3 onion services):
4683 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
4684 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
4685 Closes ticket 32709.
4687 o Minor feature (developer tools):
4688 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
4689 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
4691 o Minor feature (onion service client, SOCKS5):
4692 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
4693 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
4694 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
4697 o Minor feature (onion service v3):
4698 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
4699 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4701 o Minor feature (python scripts):
4702 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
4703 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
4704 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
4705 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
4707 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
4708 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
4709 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
4710 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
4711 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
4713 o Minor features (code safety):
4714 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
4715 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
4716 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
4717 Resolves issue 33788.
4719 o Minor features (compilation size):
4720 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
4721 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
4723 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4724 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
4725 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
4726 Resolves ticket 32143.
4728 o Minor features (control port):
4729 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
4730 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
4731 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
4732 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4734 o Minor features (developer tooling):
4735 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
4736 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
4737 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
4738 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
4739 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
4741 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
4742 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
4743 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
4744 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
4746 o Minor features (directory):
4747 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
4748 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
4749 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
4752 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
4753 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
4754 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
4756 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
4757 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
4758 Closes ticket 33901.
4760 o Minor features (logging):
4761 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
4762 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
4764 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
4765 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
4766 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
4767 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
4768 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
4769 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
4770 up from ticket 33316.
4772 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
4773 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
4774 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
4775 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4777 o Minor features (windows):
4778 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
4779 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
4781 o Minor bugfix (onion service v3):
4782 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4783 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4784 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4785 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4787 o Minor bugfix (refactoring):
4788 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
4789 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
4790 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
4792 o Minor bugfixes (client performance):
4793 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4794 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4795 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4798 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4799 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
4800 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
4801 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
4802 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
4803 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4805 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4806 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
4807 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
4808 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4810 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
4811 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
4812 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
4813 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
4814 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4816 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
4817 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
4818 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4820 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
4821 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
4822 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
4823 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
4824 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
4825 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4826 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
4827 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
4828 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
4829 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox nss):
4832 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4833 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4834 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4836 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
4837 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
4838 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
4839 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
4840 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
4842 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
4843 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
4844 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4846 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
4847 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
4848 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
4850 o Minor bugfixes (manual page):
4851 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4852 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4854 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
4855 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
4856 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4859 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
4860 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
4861 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4863 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
4864 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4865 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4867 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
4868 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
4869 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
4872 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4873 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4874 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4875 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4877 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4878 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
4879 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
4880 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
4881 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4882 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
4883 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
4884 isolated in subsystems of their own.
4885 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
4886 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
4887 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
4888 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
4890 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
4891 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
4892 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
4893 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
4897 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
4898 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
4899 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4900 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4904 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
4905 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
4906 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
4907 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
4908 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4909 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
4910 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
4913 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
4914 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
4915 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
4916 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
4917 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
4918 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4919 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
4920 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
4922 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
4923 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4925 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4926 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4927 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4928 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
4929 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
4930 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
4931 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
4932 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
4933 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
4934 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
4935 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4936 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4938 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service):
4939 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
4940 code. Closes ticket 33014.
4942 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
4943 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
4944 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
4946 o Documentation (manual page):
4947 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4948 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4949 Google Season of Docs.
4950 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4951 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4952 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4953 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4954 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4955 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4956 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4957 Closes ticket 33778.
4960 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4961 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4962 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4963 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4964 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4965 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4968 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4969 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4970 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4971 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4972 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4974 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4975 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4976 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4979 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
4980 since 0.4.2.6, see the ReleaseNotes file.
4982 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4983 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4984 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4985 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4986 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4987 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4990 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4991 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4992 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4993 - Fix a logic error in a log message about whether an address was
4994 invalid. Previously, the code would never report that onion
4995 addresses were onion addresses. Fixes bug 34131; bugfix
4999 Changes in version 0.4.3.4-rc - 2020-04-13
5000 Tor 0.4.3.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
5001 several bugs from earlier versions, including one affecting DoS
5002 defenses on bridges using pluggable transports.
5004 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
5005 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
5006 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
5007 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
5008 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
5009 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
5011 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
5012 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
5013 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
5014 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
5015 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
5017 o Minor features (testing):
5018 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
5019 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
5020 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
5021 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
5022 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
5024 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay):
5025 - Fix an assertion failure when Tor is built without the relay
5026 module, and then invoked with the "User" option. Fixes bug 33668;
5027 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5029 o Minor bugfixes (--disable-module-relay,--disable-module-dirauth):
5030 - Set some output arguments in the relay and dirauth module stubs,
5031 to guard against future stub argument handling bugs like 33668.
5032 Fixes bug 33674; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5034 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5035 - Correctly output the enabled module in the configure summary.
5036 Before that, the list shown was just plain wrong. Fixes bug 33646;
5037 bugfix on 0.4.3.2-alpha.
5039 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
5040 - Stop forcing all non-SocksPorts to prefer IPv6 exit connections.
5041 Instead, prefer IPv6 connections by default, but allow users to
5042 change their configs using the "NoPreferIPv6" port flag. Fixes bug
5043 33608; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5044 - Revert PreferIPv6 set by default on the SocksPort because it broke
5045 the torsocks use case. Tor doesn't have a way for an application
5046 to request the hostname to be resolved for a specific IP version,
5047 but torsocks requires that. Up until now, IPv4 was used by default
5048 so torsocks is expecting that, and can't handle a possible IPv6
5049 being returned. Fixes bug 33804; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5051 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
5052 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
5053 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
5054 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
5055 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
5056 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5058 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5059 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
5060 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
5061 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
5062 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
5063 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
5066 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
5067 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
5068 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
5069 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
5070 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5071 - Block a client-side assertion by disallowing the registration of
5072 an x25519 client auth key that's all zeroes. Fixes bug 33545;
5073 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Based on patch from "cypherpunks".
5075 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5076 - Disable our coding standards best practices tracker in our git
5077 hooks. (0.4.3 branches only.) Closes ticket 33678.
5080 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
5081 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
5082 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
5083 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
5084 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
5088 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
5089 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
5090 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
5091 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
5092 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5093 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
5094 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
5098 Changes in version 0.4.3.3-alpha - 2020-03-18
5099 Tor 0.4.3.3-alpha fixes several bugs in previous releases, including
5100 TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected
5101 all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5102 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5103 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5104 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5105 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5106 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5107 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5108 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5111 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5112 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5113 as soon as packages are available.
5115 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
5116 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5117 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5118 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5119 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5120 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5121 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5122 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5123 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5125 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
5126 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5127 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5128 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5129 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5131 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
5132 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
5133 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
5134 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
5135 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
5137 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5138 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
5139 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
5140 code. Closes ticket 33290.
5142 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5143 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
5144 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
5145 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5147 o Minor features (usability):
5148 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
5149 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
5150 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
5152 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
5153 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
5154 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
5155 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
5158 o Minor bugfixes (coding best practices checks):
5159 - Allow the "practracker" script to read unicode files when using
5160 Python 2. We made the script use unicode literals in 0.4.3.1-alpha,
5161 but didn't change the codec for opening files. Fixes bug 33374;
5162 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5164 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
5165 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
5168 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
5169 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
5170 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
5171 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
5174 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
5175 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5176 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5177 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5180 o Documentation (manpage):
5181 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
5182 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
5183 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
5184 Google Season of Docs.
5185 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
5186 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
5188 o Testing (Travis CI):
5189 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5190 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5191 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5193 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5194 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5195 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5196 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5197 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5200 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
5201 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5202 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
5203 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
5204 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
5205 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
5206 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
5207 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
5208 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
5209 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
5210 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
5211 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5213 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5214 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5215 as soon as packages are available.
5217 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5218 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5219 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5220 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5221 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5222 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5223 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5224 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5225 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5227 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5228 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5229 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5230 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5231 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5233 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5234 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
5235 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
5236 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
5237 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
5239 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5240 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5241 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5242 Closes ticket 33075.
5244 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5245 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5246 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5248 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5249 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5250 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5251 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5252 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5255 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5256 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5257 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5258 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5261 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5262 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5263 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5264 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5266 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5267 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5268 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5269 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5271 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5272 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5273 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5274 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5275 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5278 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
5279 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
5280 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
5281 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
5282 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
5283 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
5284 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
5285 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
5286 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
5287 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
5288 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
5289 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5291 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5292 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5293 as soon as packages are available.
5295 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5296 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5297 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5298 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5299 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5300 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5301 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5302 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5303 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5305 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5306 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5307 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5308 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5309 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5311 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5312 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5313 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5315 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5316 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5317 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5318 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5319 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5322 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5323 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5324 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5325 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5328 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5329 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5330 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5331 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5333 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5334 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5335 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5336 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5338 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5339 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5340 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5341 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5342 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5345 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5346 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5347 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5348 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5349 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5350 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5351 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5352 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5353 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5354 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5355 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5358 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5359 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5360 as soon as packages are available.
5362 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5363 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5364 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5365 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5366 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5367 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5368 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5369 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5370 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5372 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5373 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5374 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5375 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5376 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5377 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5378 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5379 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5382 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5383 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5384 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5385 Closes ticket 33075.
5387 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5388 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5389 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5391 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5392 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5393 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5394 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5395 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5397 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5398 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5399 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5400 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5401 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5404 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5405 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5406 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5407 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5410 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5411 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5412 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5413 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5415 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5416 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5417 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5418 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5419 Closes ticket 32629.
5420 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5421 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5422 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5424 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5425 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5427 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5428 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5429 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5430 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5432 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5433 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5434 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5435 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5438 Changes in version 0.4.3.2-alpha - 2020-02-10
5439 This is the second stable alpha release in the Tor 0.4.3.x series. It
5440 fixes several bugs present in the previous alpha release. Anybody
5441 running the previous alpha should upgrade, and look for bugs in this
5444 o Major bugfixes (onion service client, authorization):
5445 - On a NEWNYM signal, purge entries from the ephemeral client
5446 authorization cache. The permanent ones are kept. Fixes bug 33139;
5447 bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5449 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5450 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
5451 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
5452 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
5454 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5455 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
5456 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
5457 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5458 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5459 Closes ticket 33075.
5461 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5462 - Revise configure options that were either missing or incorrect in
5463 the configure summary. Fixes bug 32230; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5465 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5466 - Fix a memory leak introduced by refactoring of control reply
5467 formatting code. Fixes bug 33039; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
5468 - Fix a memory leak in GETINFO responses. Fixes bug 33103; bugfix
5470 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
5471 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
5472 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5474 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5475 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5476 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5477 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5478 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5480 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
5481 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
5482 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
5483 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5485 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5486 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
5487 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
5488 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5490 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
5491 - When removing client authorization credentials using the control
5492 port, also remove the associated descriptor, so the onion service
5493 can no longer be contacted. Fixes bug 33148; bugfix
5496 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
5497 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
5498 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
5499 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5501 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
5502 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5503 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5504 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5506 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
5507 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
5508 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
5509 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
5510 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
5512 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
5513 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
5514 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
5516 o Documentation (manpage):
5517 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
5518 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
5519 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
5522 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5523 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5524 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5525 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5526 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5527 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5529 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5530 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5531 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5532 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5533 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5534 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5535 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5536 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5538 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5539 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5540 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5542 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5543 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5544 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5545 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5547 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5548 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5549 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5550 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5552 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5553 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5554 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5555 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5556 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5557 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5560 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5561 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5562 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5564 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5565 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5566 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5567 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5568 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5569 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5570 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5571 Closes ticket 32629.
5573 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5574 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5577 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5578 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5579 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5580 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5581 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5582 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5584 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5585 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5586 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5587 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5588 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5589 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5590 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5591 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5593 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5594 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5595 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5597 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5598 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5599 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5600 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5601 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5603 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5604 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5605 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5607 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5608 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5609 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5610 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5611 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5612 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5613 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5614 Closes ticket 32629.
5616 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5617 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5620 Changes in version 0.4.3.1-alpha - 2020-01-22
5621 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.3.x series. It includes
5622 improved support for application integration of onion services, support
5623 for building in a client-only mode, and newly improved internal
5624 documentation (online at https://src-ref.docs.torproject.org/tor/). It
5625 also has numerous other small bugfixes and features, as well as
5626 improvements to our code's internal organization that should help us
5627 write better code in the future.
5629 o New system requirements:
5630 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
5631 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
5632 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
5634 o Major features (build system):
5635 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
5636 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
5637 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
5638 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
5639 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
5641 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
5642 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
5643 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
5644 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
5645 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5647 o Major features (onion service, controller):
5648 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
5649 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
5650 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
5651 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
5653 o Major features (onion service, SOCKS5):
5654 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
5655 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
5656 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
5658 o Major features (proxy):
5659 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
5660 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
5661 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
5662 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
5663 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
5664 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
5666 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
5667 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5668 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5669 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5670 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5671 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5672 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5673 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5675 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5676 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5677 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5679 o Major bugfixes (networking):
5680 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
5681 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
5682 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5684 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
5685 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
5686 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
5687 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
5688 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
5689 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5691 o Minor feature (configure, build system):
5692 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
5693 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
5695 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
5696 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
5697 message. Closes ticket 31371.
5699 o Minor features (configuration validation):
5700 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
5701 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
5702 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
5703 Closes ticket 31241.
5705 o Minor features (configuration):
5706 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
5707 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
5709 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
5710 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
5711 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
5712 Implements ticket 32404.
5714 o Minor features (controller):
5715 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
5716 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
5717 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
5719 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
5720 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
5721 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
5722 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
5724 o Minor features (defense in depth):
5725 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
5726 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
5729 o Minor features (developer tooling):
5730 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
5731 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
5732 Closes ticket 32772.
5734 o Minor features (developer tools):
5735 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
5736 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
5737 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
5738 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
5739 target. Closes ticket 31919.
5740 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
5741 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
5742 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
5744 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
5745 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
5746 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
5747 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
5749 o Minor features (Doxygen):
5750 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
5751 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
5752 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
5754 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
5755 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
5756 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
5757 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
5758 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
5759 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
5760 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
5761 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
5763 o Minor features (git scripts):
5764 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
5765 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
5766 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
5767 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
5768 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
5769 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
5770 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
5771 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
5772 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
5773 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
5774 Closes ticket 32216.
5775 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
5776 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
5777 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
5778 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
5780 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
5781 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
5782 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
5783 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
5784 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
5785 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
5787 o Minor features (portability, android):
5788 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
5789 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
5790 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5792 o Minor features (relay modularity):
5793 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
5794 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
5795 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5796 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5797 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
5798 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
5799 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
5801 o Minor features (relay):
5802 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
5803 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
5805 o Minor features (release tools):
5806 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
5807 Closes ticket 32704.
5809 o Minor features (testing):
5810 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
5811 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
5812 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
5813 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
5814 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
5815 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
5818 o Minor features (tests, Android):
5819 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
5820 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
5821 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
5823 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5824 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5825 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5827 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5828 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
5829 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5831 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
5832 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
5833 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
5834 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5836 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5837 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
5838 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
5839 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
5840 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
5841 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
5842 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
5843 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
5844 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
5845 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
5846 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5847 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
5848 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
5849 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
5850 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5852 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5853 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
5854 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
5857 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks):
5858 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5859 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5860 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5862 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
5863 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
5864 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
5866 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
5867 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
5868 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
5869 Closes ticket 32213.
5870 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
5871 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
5872 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5874 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5875 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
5876 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
5877 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
5878 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
5881 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5882 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
5884 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
5885 Closes ticket 32216.
5887 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
5888 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
5889 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
5890 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
5893 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash):
5894 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5895 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5896 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5898 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
5899 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
5900 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
5901 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
5902 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
5905 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, client):
5906 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
5907 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
5908 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
5909 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
5910 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5912 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5913 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
5914 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
5915 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
5916 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5918 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
5919 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
5920 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5922 o Minor bugfixes (test):
5923 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
5924 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
5925 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
5928 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5929 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
5930 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5931 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5932 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5933 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5934 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5935 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5938 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
5939 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
5940 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
5941 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
5942 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
5943 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
5945 o Minor bugfixes (windows service):
5946 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5947 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5949 o Deprecated features:
5950 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
5951 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
5952 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
5956 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
5957 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
5958 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
5959 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
5960 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
5961 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
5962 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
5963 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
5965 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
5966 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
5969 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
5970 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
5971 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
5972 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
5973 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
5974 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
5976 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
5977 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
5978 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
5979 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
5980 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
5983 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
5984 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
5986 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
5987 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
5988 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
5989 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
5990 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5991 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5992 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5993 Closes ticket 32629.
5994 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
5996 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5997 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5998 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
6000 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
6001 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
6002 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
6004 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
6005 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
6006 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
6007 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
6008 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
6009 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
6010 Solves part of ticket 32339.
6011 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
6012 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
6013 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
6014 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
6015 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
6016 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
6017 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
6018 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
6019 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
6020 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
6022 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
6023 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
6025 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
6026 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
6027 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
6029 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
6030 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
6031 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
6032 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
6033 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
6034 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
6036 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
6037 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
6038 Closes ticket 32163.
6039 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
6041 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
6043 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
6044 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
6045 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
6046 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
6047 Closes ticket 32304.
6048 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
6049 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
6050 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
6051 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
6052 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
6055 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
6056 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
6058 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
6061 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
6062 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
6063 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
6064 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
6065 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
6066 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
6067 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
6068 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
6070 o Documentation (manpage):
6071 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
6073 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
6075 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
6076 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
6077 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
6079 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
6080 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
6081 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
6083 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
6084 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
6087 o Testing (continuous integration):
6088 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
6091 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
6092 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
6093 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
6094 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
6095 bugs present in previous series.
6097 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
6098 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
6099 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6100 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6102 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
6103 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
6104 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6105 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6107 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
6108 since 0.4.1.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
6110 o Minor features (geoip):
6111 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6112 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6115 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
6116 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
6117 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6118 Closes ticket 32500.
6121 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
6122 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6123 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
6124 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6126 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6127 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
6128 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
6129 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
6131 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6132 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
6133 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
6134 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6136 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6137 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6138 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6139 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6140 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6141 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6142 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6143 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6145 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6146 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6147 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6148 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6149 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6151 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6152 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6153 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6154 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6155 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6158 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6159 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6160 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6161 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6163 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6164 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6165 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6167 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6168 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6169 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6171 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6172 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6173 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6174 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6175 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6176 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6178 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6179 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6180 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6181 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6183 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6184 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6185 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6186 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6187 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6188 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6189 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6190 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
6191 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
6192 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
6195 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6196 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
6197 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6198 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
6199 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
6200 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6201 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6202 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6203 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6205 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6206 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6207 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6208 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6210 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6211 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6212 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6213 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6214 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6217 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6218 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6219 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6221 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6222 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6223 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6225 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6226 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6227 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6229 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6230 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6231 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6232 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6234 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6235 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6236 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6237 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6238 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6240 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6241 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6242 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6244 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6245 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6246 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6249 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6250 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6251 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6253 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6254 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6255 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6256 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6258 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6259 Closes ticket 31859.
6260 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6261 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6263 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6264 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6265 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6266 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6267 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6268 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6269 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6270 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6271 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6272 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6274 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6275 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6276 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6277 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6278 Closes ticket 32500.
6281 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6282 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6283 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6284 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6285 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6287 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6288 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6289 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6290 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6292 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6293 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6296 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6297 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6298 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6299 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6300 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6301 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6302 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6303 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6304 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6305 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6306 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6308 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6309 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6310 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6311 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6312 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6313 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6315 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6316 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6317 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6318 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6319 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6322 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6323 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6324 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6325 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6326 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6328 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6329 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6330 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6331 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6334 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6335 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6336 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6337 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6338 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6339 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6340 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6341 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6343 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6344 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6345 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6346 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6347 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6349 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6350 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6351 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6352 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6353 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6356 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6357 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6358 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6360 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6361 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6362 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6365 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6366 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6367 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6369 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6370 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6371 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6372 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6374 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6375 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6376 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6377 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6378 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6380 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6381 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6382 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6384 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6385 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6386 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6389 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6390 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6391 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6393 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6394 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6395 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6397 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6398 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6399 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6401 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6402 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6403 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6406 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6407 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6408 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6409 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6410 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6411 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6413 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6414 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6415 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6416 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6417 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6419 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6420 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6421 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6424 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6425 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6426 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6428 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6429 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6430 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6431 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6433 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6434 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6435 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6436 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6438 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6439 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6440 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6441 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6443 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6444 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6445 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6446 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6448 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6449 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6450 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6451 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6452 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6453 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6454 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6456 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6457 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6458 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6459 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6461 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6462 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6463 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6464 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6466 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6467 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6468 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6471 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6472 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6473 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6474 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6475 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6476 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6477 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6479 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6480 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6481 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6482 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6485 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6486 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6487 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6488 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6489 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6491 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6492 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6493 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6494 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6495 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6497 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6498 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6499 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6502 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6503 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6504 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6505 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6506 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6508 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6509 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6510 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6511 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6513 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6514 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6515 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6516 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6517 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6520 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6521 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6522 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6525 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6526 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6527 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6528 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6530 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6531 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6532 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6533 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6535 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6536 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6537 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6538 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6540 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6541 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6542 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6543 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6546 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6547 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6548 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6549 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6550 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6551 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6554 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6555 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6556 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6558 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6559 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6560 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6562 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6563 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6564 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6565 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6567 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6568 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6569 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6571 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6572 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6573 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6574 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6575 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6577 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6578 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6579 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6582 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6583 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6584 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6585 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6586 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6587 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6588 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6589 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6590 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6591 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6593 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6594 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6595 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6596 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6598 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6599 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6600 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6601 Resolves issue 29702.
6603 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6604 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6606 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6607 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6608 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6609 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6612 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6613 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6614 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6615 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6617 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6618 Closes ticket 31859.
6619 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6620 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6622 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6623 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6624 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6625 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6626 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6627 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6628 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6629 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6630 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6631 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6633 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6634 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6635 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6636 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6637 Closes ticket 32500.
6639 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6640 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6641 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6644 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6645 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6648 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6649 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6650 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6651 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6652 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6653 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6654 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6655 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6656 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6657 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6658 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6660 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6661 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6662 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6663 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6664 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6665 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6667 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6668 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6669 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6670 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6671 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6672 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6674 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6675 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6676 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6677 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6678 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6681 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6682 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6683 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6684 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6685 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6687 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6688 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6689 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6690 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6693 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6694 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6695 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6696 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6697 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6699 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6700 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6701 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6702 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6703 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6706 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6707 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6708 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6709 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6710 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6711 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6712 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6713 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6715 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6716 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6717 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6718 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6719 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6722 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6723 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6724 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6726 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6727 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6728 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6731 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6732 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6733 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6734 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6736 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6737 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6738 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6741 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6742 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6743 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6745 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6746 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6747 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6748 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6750 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6751 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6752 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6753 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6754 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6756 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6757 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6758 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6760 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6761 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6762 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6763 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6765 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6766 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6767 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6770 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6771 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6772 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6773 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6774 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6775 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6776 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6777 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6778 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6779 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6780 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6781 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6782 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6785 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6786 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6787 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6788 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6789 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6791 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6792 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6793 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6795 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6796 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6797 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6799 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6800 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6801 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6803 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6804 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6805 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6808 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6809 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6810 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6812 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6813 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6814 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6815 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6816 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6817 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6819 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6820 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6821 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6822 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6823 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6825 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6826 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6827 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6830 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6831 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6832 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6834 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6835 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6836 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6838 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6839 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6840 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6841 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6843 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6844 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6845 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6846 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6848 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6849 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6850 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6851 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6853 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6854 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6855 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6856 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6858 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6859 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6860 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6861 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6862 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6863 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6864 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6866 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6867 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6868 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6869 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6871 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6872 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6873 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6874 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6876 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6877 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6878 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6881 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6882 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6883 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6884 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6885 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6886 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6887 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6889 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6890 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6891 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6892 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6895 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6896 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6897 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6898 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6899 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6901 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6902 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6903 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6905 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6906 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6907 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6908 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6909 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6910 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6911 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6912 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6913 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6914 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6915 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6917 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6918 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6919 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6920 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6921 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6923 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6924 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6925 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6928 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6929 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6930 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6931 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6932 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6934 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6935 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6936 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6937 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6939 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6940 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6941 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6942 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6943 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6946 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6947 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6948 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6951 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6952 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6953 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6954 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6956 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6957 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6958 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6959 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6961 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6962 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6963 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6965 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6966 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6967 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6968 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6970 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6971 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6972 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6973 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6976 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6977 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6978 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6979 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6980 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6981 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6984 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6985 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6986 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6987 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6989 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6990 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6991 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6993 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6994 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6995 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6997 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6998 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6999 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7000 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7001 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7002 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7003 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7005 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
7006 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7007 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7010 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
7011 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7012 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7013 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7014 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7015 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7016 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7017 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7019 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
7020 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7021 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7022 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7023 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7024 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7027 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
7028 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
7029 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
7030 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
7031 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7033 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
7034 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7035 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7036 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7037 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7038 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7039 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7040 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7042 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
7043 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
7044 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
7047 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7048 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7049 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7050 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7051 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7052 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7053 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7054 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7055 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7056 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7058 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
7059 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7060 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7061 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7062 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7063 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7065 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7066 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7067 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7068 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7070 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
7071 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7072 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7073 Resolves issue 29702.
7075 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
7076 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7078 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
7079 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7080 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7081 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7084 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
7085 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
7086 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
7087 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
7089 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
7090 Closes ticket 31859.
7091 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
7092 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
7094 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
7095 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
7096 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
7097 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
7098 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
7099 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
7100 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
7101 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
7102 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
7103 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
7105 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
7106 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
7107 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
7108 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
7109 Closes ticket 32500.
7111 Changes in version 0.4.2.4-rc - 2019-11-15
7112 Tor 0.4.2.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series. It fixes
7113 several bugs from earlier versions, including a few that would result in
7114 stack traces or incorrect behavior.
7116 o Minor features (build system):
7117 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
7118 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
7120 o Minor features (geoip):
7121 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7122 Country database. Closes ticket 32440.
7124 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
7125 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
7126 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
7127 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
7128 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
7129 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7131 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
7132 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
7133 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7135 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7136 - Log the option name when skipping an obsolete option. Fixes bug
7137 32295; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7139 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
7140 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
7141 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
7142 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
7143 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7145 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
7146 - When checking if a directory connection is anonymous, test if the
7147 circuit was marked for close before looking at its channel. This
7148 avoids a BUG() stacktrace if the circuit was previously closed.
7149 Fixes bug 31958; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7151 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
7152 - Fix minor shellcheck errors in the git-*.sh scripts. Fixes bug
7153 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7154 - Start checking most scripts for shellcheck errors again. Fixes bug
7155 32402; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7157 o Testing (continuous integration):
7158 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
7159 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
7160 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
7161 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
7162 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
7163 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
7164 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
7165 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
7166 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
7169 Changes in version 0.4.2.3-alpha - 2019-10-24
7170 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
7171 from earlier versions of Tor.
7173 o Major bugfixes (relay):
7174 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
7175 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
7176 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
7177 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
7178 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
7179 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
7180 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7182 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7183 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
7184 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
7185 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
7186 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
7189 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
7190 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
7191 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
7192 Closes ticket 29669.
7194 o Minor features (testing):
7195 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
7196 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
7197 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
7198 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
7200 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
7201 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
7202 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
7203 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
7205 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
7206 Closes ticket 31859.
7207 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
7208 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
7210 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7211 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
7212 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7213 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
7215 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
7216 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7217 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
7218 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
7219 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7221 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
7222 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
7223 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
7224 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7226 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7227 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
7228 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7230 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
7231 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
7232 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
7233 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
7234 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
7237 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
7238 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
7239 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
7241 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
7242 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
7243 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7245 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7246 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
7247 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
7249 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
7250 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
7251 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
7252 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7254 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
7255 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
7256 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
7259 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
7260 - Fix an implicit conversion from ssize_t to size_t discovered by
7261 Coverity. Fixes bug 31682; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7262 - Fix a memory leak in an unlikely error code path when encoding HS
7263 DoS establish intro extension cell. Fixes bug 32063; bugfix
7265 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
7266 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
7267 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
7268 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7271 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
7272 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7273 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
7274 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
7275 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
7276 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
7279 Changes in version 0.4.2.2-alpha - 2019-10-07
7280 This release fixes several bugs from the previous alpha release, and
7281 from earlier versions. It also includes a change in authorities, so
7282 that they begin to reject the currently unsupported release series.
7284 o Major features (directory authorities):
7285 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
7286 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
7287 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
7289 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
7290 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
7291 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
7292 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7294 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
7295 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
7296 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
7297 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
7298 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7300 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
7301 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
7302 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
7303 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
7304 Closes ticket 31779.
7306 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7307 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
7308 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
7309 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
7311 o Minor features (geoip):
7312 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 1 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7313 Country database. Closes ticket 31931.
7315 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
7316 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
7317 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
7318 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
7319 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
7320 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
7321 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
7323 o Minor features (onion services v3):
7324 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
7325 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
7328 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
7329 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
7330 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
7332 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7333 - When listing overbroad exceptions, do not also list problems, and
7334 do not list insufficiently broad exceptions. Fixes bug 31338;
7335 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
7337 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7338 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7339 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
7340 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7342 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7343 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
7344 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7345 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
7346 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
7347 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
7348 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
7349 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
7350 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
7351 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
7352 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
7354 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
7355 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
7356 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
7357 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7359 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
7360 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
7361 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
7364 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
7365 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
7366 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
7368 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7369 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
7370 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
7371 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7373 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
7374 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
7375 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7377 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7378 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
7379 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
7380 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
7381 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
7382 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
7383 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
7385 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
7389 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
7390 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
7392 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
7393 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
7394 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
7395 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
7396 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
7397 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
7400 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
7401 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
7402 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
7403 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
7406 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7407 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7408 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7409 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7410 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7411 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7412 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7413 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7414 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7416 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7417 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7418 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7421 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7422 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7423 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7425 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7426 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7427 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7428 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7429 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7431 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7432 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7433 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7435 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7436 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
7437 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
7438 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7440 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7441 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7442 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7443 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7446 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7447 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7448 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7449 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7450 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7452 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7453 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7454 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7457 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7458 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7459 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7461 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7462 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7463 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7464 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7465 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7466 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7468 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7469 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7470 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7471 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7472 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7473 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7474 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7475 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7476 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7477 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7479 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
7480 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7481 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7482 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7485 Changes in version 0.4.2.1-alpha - 2019-09-17
7486 This is the first alpha release in the 0.4.2.x series. It adds new
7487 defenses for denial-of-service attacks against onion services. It also
7488 includes numerous kinds of bugfixes and refactoring to help improve
7489 Tor's stability and ease of development.
7491 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
7492 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
7493 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
7494 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
7495 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
7496 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
7499 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7500 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7501 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
7502 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
7503 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
7504 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
7507 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
7508 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
7509 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
7510 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
7511 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7512 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
7513 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
7514 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
7515 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7517 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
7518 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
7519 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
7520 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
7521 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
7522 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
7523 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
7524 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
7525 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
7526 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
7527 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
7528 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
7529 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
7530 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
7531 files. Closes ticket 31175.
7533 o Minor features (build system):
7534 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
7535 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
7536 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
7538 o Minor features (compilation):
7539 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
7540 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
7541 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
7543 o Minor features (configuration):
7544 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
7545 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
7546 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
7547 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
7549 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7550 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
7551 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
7552 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
7554 o Minor features (debugging):
7555 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
7556 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
7557 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
7558 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
7560 o Minor features (git hooks):
7561 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
7562 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
7563 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
7564 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
7565 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
7567 o Minor features (git scripts):
7568 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
7569 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
7570 push. Closes ticket 31314.
7571 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
7572 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
7573 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
7574 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
7575 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
7576 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
7577 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
7578 Closes ticket 31314.
7579 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
7580 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
7581 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
7582 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
7583 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
7584 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
7585 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
7586 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
7587 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
7589 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
7590 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
7591 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
7594 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
7595 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
7596 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
7598 o Minor features (onion service v3):
7599 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
7600 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
7602 o Minor features (onion service):
7603 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
7604 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
7605 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
7606 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
7608 o Minor features (stem tests):
7609 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
7610 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
7613 o Minor features (testing):
7614 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
7615 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
7616 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
7617 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
7618 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
7619 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
7620 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
7621 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
7622 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
7623 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
7624 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
7626 o Minor features (token bucket):
7627 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
7628 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
7630 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
7631 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
7632 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
7633 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7634 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
7635 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
7636 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
7637 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
7640 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
7641 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
7642 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
7644 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
7645 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
7646 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
7647 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
7648 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
7649 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
7651 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7652 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
7653 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
7654 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
7655 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
7657 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
7658 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
7659 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
7661 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
7662 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
7663 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
7664 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
7666 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
7667 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
7668 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
7669 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
7670 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
7671 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
7672 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
7673 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
7674 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
7675 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7677 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7678 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
7679 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
7682 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7683 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
7684 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7686 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
7687 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
7688 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
7689 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7690 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
7691 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
7692 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7693 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
7694 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
7695 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
7698 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
7699 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
7700 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
7701 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
7704 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
7705 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
7706 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
7707 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7709 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
7710 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
7711 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
7712 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7713 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
7714 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7715 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
7716 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
7717 Closes ticket 31678.
7719 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7720 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
7721 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
7722 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
7723 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7725 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
7726 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
7727 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
7728 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
7729 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7730 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
7731 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
7732 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
7733 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
7736 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7737 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
7738 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
7740 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
7741 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
7742 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
7744 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7745 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
7746 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
7749 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
7750 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
7751 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
7752 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
7753 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
7754 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7756 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
7757 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
7758 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
7759 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
7762 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
7763 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
7764 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
7765 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
7766 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7768 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7769 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
7770 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
7771 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
7772 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
7773 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7775 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
7776 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
7777 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
7778 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7780 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7781 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
7782 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7783 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
7784 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7786 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
7787 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
7788 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
7789 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7791 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
7792 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
7793 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
7794 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
7795 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7797 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
7798 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
7799 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
7800 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
7801 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
7804 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7805 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
7806 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
7809 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
7810 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7811 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
7812 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
7813 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
7814 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7816 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
7817 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
7818 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
7819 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
7820 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
7821 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7822 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
7823 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
7824 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
7825 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7828 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
7829 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
7830 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
7831 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
7832 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
7833 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
7834 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
7837 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
7838 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
7839 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
7840 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
7841 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
7842 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
7844 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
7848 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
7849 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
7850 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
7851 Closes ticket 30967.
7853 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
7854 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
7855 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
7856 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
7857 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
7858 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
7859 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
7860 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
7861 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
7862 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
7863 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
7864 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
7865 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
7866 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
7867 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
7868 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
7870 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
7871 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
7872 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
7873 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
7874 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
7875 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
7876 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
7877 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
7878 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
7879 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
7881 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
7882 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
7883 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
7885 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
7886 Closes ticket 30806.
7887 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
7888 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
7891 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
7892 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
7893 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
7895 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
7896 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
7897 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
7900 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
7901 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
7902 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
7903 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
7904 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
7905 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
7906 bugfixes on earlier versions.
7908 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
7909 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
7910 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7911 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7913 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
7914 since 0.4.0.5, see the ReleaseNotes file.
7916 o Directory authority changes:
7917 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7920 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7921 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to
7922 protocol warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID
7923 fields to help with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7925 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding negotiation):
7926 - Bump the circuit padding protocol version to explicitly signify
7927 that the HS setup machine support is finalized in 0.4.1.x-stable.
7928 This also means that 0.4.1.x-alpha clients will not negotiate
7929 padding with 0.4.1.x-stable relays, and 0.4.1.x-stable clients
7930 will not negotiate padding with 0.4.1.x-alpha relays (or 0.4.0.x
7931 relays). Fixes bug 31356; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7933 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7934 - Ignore non-padding cells on padding circuits. This addresses
7935 various warning messages from subsystems that were not expecting
7936 padding circuits. Fixes bug 30942; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
7938 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7939 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7940 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7941 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7942 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7944 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7945 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7946 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7947 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7948 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7949 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7951 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7952 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7953 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
7956 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7957 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7958 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7960 o Minor bugfixes (distribution):
7961 - Do not ship any temporary files found in the
7962 scripts/maint/practracker directory. Fixes bug 31311; bugfix
7965 o Testing (continuous integration):
7966 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
7967 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7968 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
7972 Changes in version 0.4.1.4-rc - 2019-07-25
7973 Tor 0.4.1.4-rc fixes a few bugs from previous versions of Tor, and
7974 updates to a new list of fallback directories. If no new bugs are
7975 found, the next release in the 0.4.1.x serious should be stable.
7977 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7978 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7979 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7980 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7981 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7982 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7984 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7985 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7986 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7988 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7989 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7990 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7991 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7992 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7994 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7995 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7996 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7998 - Add two NULL checks in unreachable places to silence Coverity (CID
7999 144729 and 1447291) and better future-proof ourselves. Fixes bug
8000 31024; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
8002 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
8003 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
8004 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
8005 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8007 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8008 - Fix a conflict between the flag used for messaging-domain log
8009 messages, and the LD_NO_MOCK testing flag. Fixes bug 31080; bugfix
8012 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8013 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
8014 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
8017 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8018 - Remove some dead code from circpad_machine_remove_token() to fix
8019 some Coverity warnings (CID 1447298). Fixes bug 31027; bugfix
8023 Changes in version 0.4.1.3-alpha - 2019-06-25
8024 Tor 0.4.1.3-alpha resolves numerous bugs left over from the previous
8025 alpha, most of them from earlier release series.
8027 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability):
8028 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
8029 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
8030 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
8031 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
8034 o Minor features (geoip):
8035 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8036 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
8038 o Minor features (logging):
8039 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
8040 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
8041 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
8042 Closes ticket 30686.
8044 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
8045 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
8046 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8048 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
8049 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
8050 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8051 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
8052 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8053 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
8054 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8056 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8057 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
8058 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
8059 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8061 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8062 - When running as a bridge with pluggable transports, always publish
8063 pluggable transport information in our extrainfo descriptor, even
8064 if ExtraInfoStatistics is 0. This information is needed by
8065 BridgeDB. Fixes bug 30956; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
8068 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
8069 Closes ticket 30630.
8072 Changes in version 0.4.1.2-alpha - 2019-06-06
8073 Tor 0.4.1.2-alpha resolves numerous bugs--some of them from the
8074 previous alpha, and some much older. It also contains minor testing
8075 improvements, and an improvement to the security of our authenticated
8076 SENDME implementation.
8078 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
8079 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
8080 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
8081 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
8082 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
8083 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
8084 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
8085 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
8086 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
8087 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
8088 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8090 o Major bugfixes (flow control, SENDME):
8091 - Decrement the stream-level package window after packaging a cell.
8092 Previously, it was done inside a log_debug() call, meaning that if
8093 debug logs were not enabled, the decrement would never happen, and
8094 thus the window would be out of sync with the other end point.
8095 Fixes bug 30628; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
8097 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
8098 - Properly clean up the introduction point map and associated state
8099 when circuits change purpose from onion service circuits to
8100 pathbias, measurement, or other circuit types. This may fix some
8101 instances of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
8104 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
8105 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
8106 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
8107 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
8108 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
8109 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
8112 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8113 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
8114 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
8117 o Minor features (maintenance):
8118 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
8119 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
8120 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
8122 o Minor features (testing):
8123 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
8124 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
8125 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
8126 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
8128 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
8129 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
8130 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
8132 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
8133 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
8134 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
8135 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
8137 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8138 - POSTDESCRIPTOR requests should work again. Previously, they were
8139 broken if a "purpose=" flag was specified. Fixes bug 30580; bugfix
8141 - Repair the HSFETCH command so that it works again. Previously, it
8142 expected a body when it shouldn't have. Fixes bug 30646; bugfix
8145 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
8146 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
8147 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
8150 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
8151 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
8152 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
8155 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
8156 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
8157 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
8158 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
8160 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
8161 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
8162 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
8163 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
8166 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
8167 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
8168 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
8169 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
8170 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
8171 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
8174 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown, libevent, memory safety):
8175 - Avoid use-after-free bugs when shutting down, by making sure that
8176 we shut down libevent only after shutting down all of its users.
8177 We believe these are harmless in practice, since they only occur
8178 on the shutdown path, and do not involve any attacker-controlled
8179 data. Fixes bug 30629; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
8181 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
8182 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
8183 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
8184 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
8187 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
8188 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
8189 Resolves issue 29702.
8192 Changes in version 0.4.1.1-alpha - 2019-05-22
8193 This is the first alpha in the 0.4.1.x series. It introduces
8194 lightweight circuit padding to make some onion-service circuits harder
8195 to distinguish, includes a new "authenticated SENDME" feature to make
8196 certain denial-of-service attacks more difficult, and improves
8197 performance in several areas.
8199 o Major features (circuit padding):
8200 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
8201 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
8202 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
8203 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
8204 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
8205 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
8206 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
8207 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
8208 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
8210 o Major features (code organization):
8211 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
8212 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
8213 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
8214 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
8217 o Major features (controller protocol):
8218 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
8219 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
8220 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
8221 Closes ticket 30091.
8223 o Major features (flow control):
8224 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
8225 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
8226 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
8227 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
8228 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
8229 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
8230 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
8232 o Major features (performance):
8233 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
8234 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
8235 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
8237 o Major features (performance, RNG):
8238 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
8239 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
8240 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
8241 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
8242 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
8243 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
8244 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
8245 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
8247 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8248 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
8249 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
8250 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
8251 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
8253 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
8254 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
8255 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
8256 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
8259 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8260 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
8262 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
8263 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
8264 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
8265 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
8266 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8267 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
8268 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
8270 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
8271 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
8272 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
8274 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8275 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
8276 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
8278 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
8280 o Minor features (controller):
8281 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
8282 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
8283 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8285 o Minor features (debugging):
8286 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
8287 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
8288 can use format strings to include information for trouble
8289 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
8291 o Minor features (defense in depth):
8292 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
8293 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
8294 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
8295 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
8296 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
8297 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
8298 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
8299 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
8300 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
8302 o Minor features (developer tools):
8303 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
8304 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
8305 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
8306 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
8307 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
8309 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
8310 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
8312 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
8313 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
8315 o Minor features (geoip):
8316 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8317 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
8319 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
8320 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
8321 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
8323 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
8324 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
8325 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
8326 addresses. Implements 26992.
8328 o Minor features (modularity):
8329 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
8330 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
8332 o Minor features (performance):
8333 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
8334 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
8335 Closes ticket 28837.
8337 o Minor features (testing):
8338 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
8339 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
8340 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
8341 Implements ticket 29732.
8342 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
8343 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
8345 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
8346 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
8349 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
8350 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
8351 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
8352 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8353 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8355 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
8356 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
8357 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
8358 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8360 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
8361 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
8362 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8363 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
8364 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
8365 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
8366 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8367 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
8368 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
8369 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8370 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
8371 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8372 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8373 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
8374 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8375 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
8376 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
8377 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8379 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
8380 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
8381 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
8382 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8384 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
8385 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
8386 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
8387 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
8388 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
8390 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, ipv6):
8391 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
8392 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8393 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8395 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
8396 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
8397 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8398 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
8399 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
8400 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
8402 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
8403 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
8405 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8406 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
8407 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
8408 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
8409 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
8410 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
8411 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
8414 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
8415 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
8416 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
8419 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
8420 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
8421 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
8422 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8423 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
8424 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
8425 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
8426 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
8428 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
8429 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
8430 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8431 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
8432 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
8433 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
8434 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8436 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
8437 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
8438 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
8439 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
8440 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
8441 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8443 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
8444 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
8445 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
8446 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
8447 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8449 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8450 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
8451 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8453 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
8454 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
8455 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
8458 o Minor bugfixes (python):
8459 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
8460 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
8461 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
8463 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8464 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
8465 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
8466 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
8467 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8469 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8470 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
8471 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
8472 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
8473 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
8475 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8476 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
8477 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
8478 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8479 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
8480 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8481 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
8482 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
8483 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
8484 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
8485 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
8486 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
8487 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8489 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
8490 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
8491 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
8492 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
8493 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8495 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8496 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
8497 port. Implements ticket 30007.
8498 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
8499 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
8500 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
8501 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
8502 string to directory connection with or without compression.
8503 Resolves issue 28816.
8504 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
8505 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
8506 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
8507 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
8508 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
8509 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
8510 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
8511 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
8512 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
8513 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
8514 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
8515 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
8516 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
8517 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
8518 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
8519 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
8520 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8521 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
8522 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8523 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
8524 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
8525 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
8526 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
8527 Closes ticket 29894.
8528 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
8529 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
8530 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
8531 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
8534 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
8535 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
8539 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
8540 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
8541 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
8542 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
8545 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8546 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
8547 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
8548 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
8549 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
8550 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
8551 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
8552 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
8553 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
8554 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
8555 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
8558 o Testing (chutney):
8559 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
8560 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
8561 Closes ticket 27251.
8564 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
8565 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
8566 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
8567 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
8568 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
8569 long-term maintainability.
8571 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
8572 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
8573 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
8574 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
8576 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.4-rc. For a complete list of changes
8577 since 0.3.5.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
8579 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8580 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
8581 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
8582 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
8584 o Minor features (diagnostic):
8585 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
8586 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
8589 o Minor features (testing):
8590 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
8591 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
8594 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
8595 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
8596 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8598 o Minor bugfixes (shellcheck):
8599 - Look for scripts in their correct locations during "make
8600 shellcheck". Previously we had looked in the wrong place during
8601 out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 30263; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8603 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8604 - Check the time in the "Expires" header using approx_time(). Fixes
8605 bug 30001; bugfix on 0.4.0.4-rc.
8607 o Minor bugfixes (UI):
8608 - Lower log level of unlink() errors during bootstrap. Fixes bug
8609 29930; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8612 Changes in version 0.4.0.4-rc - 2019-04-11
8613 Tor 0.4.0.4-rc is the first release candidate in its series; it fixes
8614 several bugs from earlier versions, including some that had affected
8615 stability, and one that prevented relays from working with NSS.
8617 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
8618 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
8619 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
8620 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
8621 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
8622 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8624 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
8625 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
8626 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
8627 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
8628 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
8630 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
8631 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
8632 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
8635 o Minor features (circuit padding):
8636 - Stop warning about undefined behavior in the probability
8637 distribution tests. Float division by zero may technically be
8638 undefined behavior in C, but it's well defined in IEEE 754.
8639 Partial backport of 29298. Closes ticket 29527; bugfix
8642 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8643 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
8644 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
8647 o Minor features (dormant mode):
8648 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
8649 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
8650 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
8651 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
8652 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
8653 background. Closes ticket 29357.
8655 o Minor features (geoip):
8656 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8657 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
8659 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
8660 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
8661 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
8662 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
8664 o Minor bugfixes (security):
8665 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
8666 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
8667 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
8668 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
8669 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
8670 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
8671 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
8672 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
8674 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
8675 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
8676 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
8677 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
8679 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
8680 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
8681 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
8682 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
8683 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
8685 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
8686 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
8687 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8689 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap reporting):
8690 - During bootstrap reporting, correctly distinguish pluggable
8691 transports from plain proxies. Fixes bug 28925; bugfix
8694 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8695 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
8696 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
8699 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding testing):
8700 - Minor tweaks to avoid rare test failures related to timers and
8701 monotonic time. Fixes bug 29500; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8703 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8704 - Actually include the bandwidth-file-digest line in directory
8705 authority votes. Fixes bug 29959; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8707 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8708 - On Windows, when errors cause us to reload a consensus from disk,
8709 tell the user that we are retrying at log level "notice".
8710 Previously we only logged this information at "info", which was
8711 confusing because the errors themselves were logged at "warning".
8712 Improves previous fix for 28614. Fixes bug 30004; bugfix
8715 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8716 - Restore old behavior when it comes to discovering the path of a
8717 given Pluggable Transport executable file. A change in
8718 0.4.0.1-alpha had broken this behavior on paths containing a
8719 space. Fixes bug 29874; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8721 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8722 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
8723 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
8724 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8725 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
8726 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
8729 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8730 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8731 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8732 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8733 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8734 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8735 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8736 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8738 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8739 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8740 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8741 Resolves issue 28816.
8742 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8743 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8746 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8747 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8750 Changes in version 0.4.0.3-alpha - 2019-03-22
8751 Tor 0.4.0.3-alpha is the third in its series; it fixes several small
8752 bugs from earlier versions.
8754 o Minor features (address selection):
8755 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
8756 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
8757 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
8758 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
8759 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
8760 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
8761 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8763 o Minor features (geoip):
8764 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 4 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8765 Country database. Closes ticket 29666.
8767 o Minor bugfixes (circuitpadding):
8768 - Inspect the circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
8769 avoid sending padding when too much data is queued. Fixes bug
8770 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8772 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8773 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
8774 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
8775 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
8776 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8777 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
8778 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
8779 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
8780 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8781 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
8782 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8784 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
8785 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
8786 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
8787 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8789 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing):
8790 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
8791 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8793 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
8794 - Fix an assertion failure crash bug when a pluggable transport is
8795 terminated during the bootstrap phase. Fixes bug 29562; bugfix
8798 o Minor bugfixes (Rust, protover):
8799 - Add a missing "Padding" value to the Rust implementation of
8800 protover. Fixes bug 29631; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8802 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
8803 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
8804 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
8805 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
8806 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
8807 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
8808 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
8810 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
8811 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
8812 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
8815 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8816 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
8817 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
8818 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
8819 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
8820 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
8821 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8822 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8823 - Decrease the false positive rate of stochastic probability
8824 distribution tests. Fixes bug 29693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
8826 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8827 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8828 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8829 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8830 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8831 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8834 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8835 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8836 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8839 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8840 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8841 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8843 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8844 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8845 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8846 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8847 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8848 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8849 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8850 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8852 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8853 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8854 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8855 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8856 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8858 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8859 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8860 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8861 Patches from "Mangix".
8863 o Minor features (geoip):
8864 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8865 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8867 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8868 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8871 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8872 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8873 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8874 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8875 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8876 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8878 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8879 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8880 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8881 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8884 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8885 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8886 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8887 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8889 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8890 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8891 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8894 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8895 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8896 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8897 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8899 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8900 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8901 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8902 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8904 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8905 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8906 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8907 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8908 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8909 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8911 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8912 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8913 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8914 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8915 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8917 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8918 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8919 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8920 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8921 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8923 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8924 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8925 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8927 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8928 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8929 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8931 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8932 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8933 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8934 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8936 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8937 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8938 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8940 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8941 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8942 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8943 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8944 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8947 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8948 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8949 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8950 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8951 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8954 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8955 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8956 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8957 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8958 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8960 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8961 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8962 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8963 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8964 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8965 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8966 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8967 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8969 o Minor features (geoip):
8970 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8971 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8973 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8974 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8975 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8976 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8978 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8979 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8980 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8981 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8982 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8985 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8986 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8987 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8988 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8990 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8991 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8992 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8993 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8995 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8996 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8997 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8998 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8999 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
9000 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
9001 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
9002 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
9004 o Minor features (geoip):
9005 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9006 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
9008 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
9009 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
9010 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
9011 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9013 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
9014 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
9015 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
9016 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
9017 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
9020 Changes in version 0.4.0.2-alpha - 2019-02-21
9021 Tor 0.4.0.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series; it fixes several
9022 bugs from earlier versions, including several that had broken
9023 backward compatibility.
9025 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
9026 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
9027 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
9029 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
9030 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
9031 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
9032 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
9033 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
9034 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
9035 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
9036 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
9038 o Major bugfixes (networking):
9039 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
9040 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
9041 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
9042 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9044 o Major bugfixes (windows, startup):
9045 - When reading a consensus file from disk, detect whether it was
9046 written in text mode, and re-read it in text mode if so. Always
9047 write consensus files in binary mode so that we can map them into
9048 memory later. Previously, we had written in text mode, which
9049 confused us when we tried to map the file on windows. Fixes bug
9050 28614; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
9052 o Minor features (compilation):
9053 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
9054 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
9055 Patches from "Mangix".
9057 o Minor features (developer tooling):
9058 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
9059 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
9060 release. Closes ticket 27761.
9061 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
9062 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
9063 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
9066 o Minor features (directory authority):
9067 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
9068 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
9069 Closes ticket 26698.
9071 o Minor features (geoip):
9072 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9073 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
9075 o Minor features (testing):
9076 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
9079 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
9080 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
9081 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
9082 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
9084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9085 - Fix compilation warnings in test_circuitpadding.c. Fixes bug
9086 29169; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
9087 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
9088 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9090 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9091 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
9092 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
9093 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
9095 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox):
9096 - Fix startup crash when experimental sandbox support is enabled.
9097 Fixes bug 29150; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Gerber.
9099 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9100 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
9101 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
9102 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
9103 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
9104 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
9105 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9107 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
9108 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
9109 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
9110 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
9111 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9113 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9114 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
9115 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
9117 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
9118 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
9119 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
9121 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
9122 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
9123 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
9124 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
9126 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
9127 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
9128 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
9129 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
9130 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
9133 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
9134 - Fix intermittent failures on an adaptive padding test. Fixes one
9135 case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
9136 - Disable an unstable circuit-padding test that was failing
9137 intermittently because of an ill-defined small histogram. Such
9138 histograms will be allowed again after 29298 is implemented. Fixes
9139 a second case of bug 29122; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
9140 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
9141 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9142 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
9143 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
9147 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
9148 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
9149 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
9152 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
9155 Changes in version 0.4.0.1-alpha - 2019-01-18
9156 Tor 0.4.0.1-alpha is the first release in the new 0.4.0.x series. It
9157 introduces improved features for power and bandwidth conservation,
9158 more accurate reporting of bootstrap progress for user interfaces, and
9159 an experimental backend for an exciting new adaptive padding feature.
9160 There is also the usual assortment of bugfixes and minor features, all
9163 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
9164 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
9165 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
9166 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
9167 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
9168 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
9170 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
9171 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
9173 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
9174 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
9177 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
9178 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
9179 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
9180 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
9181 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
9182 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
9183 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
9184 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
9185 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
9188 o Major features (circuit padding):
9189 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
9190 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
9191 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
9192 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
9193 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
9194 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
9195 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
9196 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
9199 o Major features (refactoring):
9200 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
9201 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
9202 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
9203 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
9206 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
9207 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
9208 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
9209 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
9210 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
9213 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9214 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
9217 o Minor features (controller):
9218 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
9219 Implements ticket 28843.
9221 o Minor features (developer tooling):
9222 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
9223 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
9224 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
9226 o Minor features (directory authority):
9227 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
9228 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
9229 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
9230 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
9233 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
9234 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
9235 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
9236 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
9237 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
9238 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
9239 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
9241 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
9242 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
9243 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
9245 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
9246 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
9247 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
9248 Closes ticket 28518.
9250 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
9251 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
9252 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
9253 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
9255 o Minor features (IPv6):
9256 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
9257 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
9258 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
9259 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
9260 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
9261 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9262 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
9263 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
9264 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
9265 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9267 o Minor features (log messages):
9268 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
9269 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
9272 o Minor features (memory usage):
9273 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
9274 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
9275 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
9276 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
9277 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
9279 o Minor features (parsing):
9280 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
9281 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
9282 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
9284 o Minor features (performance):
9285 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
9286 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
9287 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
9288 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
9290 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
9291 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
9292 Closes ticket 28852.
9293 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
9294 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
9295 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
9296 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
9297 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
9298 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
9300 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
9301 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
9302 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
9303 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
9304 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
9306 o Minor features (process management):
9307 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
9308 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
9309 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
9310 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
9311 module. Closes ticket 28847.
9313 o Minor features (relay):
9314 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
9315 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
9316 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
9318 o Minor features (required protocols):
9319 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
9320 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
9321 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
9322 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
9323 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
9324 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
9325 297; closes ticket 27735.
9327 o Minor features (testing):
9328 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
9329 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
9332 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
9333 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
9334 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
9335 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
9338 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9339 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
9340 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
9341 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
9343 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
9344 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
9345 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
9347 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
9348 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
9349 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
9350 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9352 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
9353 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
9354 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
9355 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
9356 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
9358 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
9359 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
9360 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
9361 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
9362 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
9363 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
9364 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9366 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
9367 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
9368 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
9369 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
9372 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9373 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
9374 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
9375 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
9376 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
9377 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
9379 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
9380 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
9381 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
9382 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9384 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
9385 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
9386 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
9387 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
9388 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
9389 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9391 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
9392 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
9393 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
9394 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9396 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
9397 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
9398 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
9399 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
9400 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9402 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
9403 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
9404 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
9405 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
9406 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9408 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
9409 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
9410 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
9411 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
9412 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9414 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9415 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
9416 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
9417 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
9419 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
9420 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
9421 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
9422 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
9423 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
9424 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
9425 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
9426 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
9430 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
9431 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
9432 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
9433 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
9435 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
9438 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
9439 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
9440 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
9441 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
9442 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
9443 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
9444 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
9447 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
9449 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
9450 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
9452 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
9453 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
9454 code from client and service into one function. Closes
9457 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
9458 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
9460 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
9461 Resolves ticket 28006.
9462 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
9463 Resolves ticket 28012.
9464 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
9465 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
9466 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
9467 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
9471 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
9472 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9473 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
9474 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
9475 to this version, or to a later series.
9477 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
9478 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
9479 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
9480 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
9481 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
9482 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
9484 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9485 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9486 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9487 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9488 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9491 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9492 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9493 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9494 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9496 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9497 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9498 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9499 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9500 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9501 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9502 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9503 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9505 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9506 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9507 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9508 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9510 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9511 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9512 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9513 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9514 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9516 o Minor features (geoip):
9517 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9518 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9520 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9521 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9522 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9523 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9524 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9525 Closes ticket 28973.
9527 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9528 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9529 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9530 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9532 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9533 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9534 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9537 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9538 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9539 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9541 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9542 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9543 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9544 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9546 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9547 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9548 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9549 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9551 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9552 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9553 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9554 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9555 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9556 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9559 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9560 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9561 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9564 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9565 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9566 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9567 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9568 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9570 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9571 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9572 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9573 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9574 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9576 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9577 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9578 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9579 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9580 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9581 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9584 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
9585 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
9588 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9589 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9590 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9592 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9593 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9594 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9596 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9597 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9598 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9601 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9602 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9603 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9604 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9605 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9606 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9607 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9608 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9610 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9611 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9612 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9613 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9615 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9616 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9617 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9618 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9619 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9620 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9621 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9622 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9623 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9624 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9626 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9627 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9628 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9629 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9630 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9631 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9633 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9634 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9635 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9636 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9637 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9639 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9640 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9641 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9644 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
9645 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9646 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
9647 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
9650 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
9651 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
9652 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
9655 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9656 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9657 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9658 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9659 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9662 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9663 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9664 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9665 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9666 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9667 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9668 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9670 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9671 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9672 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9675 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9676 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
9677 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
9678 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
9679 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
9682 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9683 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9684 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9685 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9686 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9688 o Minor features (geoip):
9689 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9690 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9692 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9693 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9694 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9695 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9696 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9697 Closes ticket 28973.
9699 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9700 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9701 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9702 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9704 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9705 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9706 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9707 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9708 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9711 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9712 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9713 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9714 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9716 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9717 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9718 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9720 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9721 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9722 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9723 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9725 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9726 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9727 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9728 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9729 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9730 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9733 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
9734 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9735 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9737 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9738 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
9739 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
9740 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
9741 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9743 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9744 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9745 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9746 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9747 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9748 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9750 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
9751 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9752 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9753 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9755 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
9756 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9757 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9760 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
9761 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9762 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
9763 affecting directory caches.
9765 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
9766 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
9767 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
9768 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
9769 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
9770 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
9771 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
9772 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
9774 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
9775 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
9776 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
9777 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
9778 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
9779 so it will recognize them.
9781 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
9782 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
9783 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
9784 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
9785 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
9786 with the latest stable release.)
9788 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
9789 since 0.3.4.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
9791 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory):
9792 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
9793 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
9794 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
9795 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
9796 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
9797 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
9799 o Minor features (compilation):
9800 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
9801 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
9803 o Minor features (geoip):
9804 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
9805 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
9807 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
9808 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
9809 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
9810 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
9811 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
9812 Closes ticket 28973.
9814 o Minor features (performance):
9815 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
9816 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
9817 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
9818 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
9819 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
9820 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
9821 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
9822 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
9823 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
9824 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
9826 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9827 - Fix compilation for Android by adding a missing header to
9828 freespace.c. Fixes bug 28974; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9830 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9831 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9832 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9833 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9834 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9836 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9837 - Make sure that test_rebind.py actually obeys its timeout, even
9838 when it receives a large number of log messages. Fixes bug 28883;
9839 bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
9840 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9841 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9842 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9844 o Minor bugfixes (windows services):
9845 - Make Tor start correctly as an NT service again: previously it was
9846 broken by refactoring. Fixes bug 28612; bugfix on 0.3.5.3-alpha.
9848 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9849 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9850 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9854 Changes in version 0.3.5.6-rc - 2018-12-18
9855 Tor 0.3.5.6-rc fixes numerous small bugs in earlier versions of Tor.
9856 It is the first release candidate in the 0.3.5.x series; if no further
9857 huge bugs are found, our next release may be the stable 0.3.5.x.
9859 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
9860 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
9861 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
9864 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
9865 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
9866 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
9867 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
9868 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
9870 o Minor features (geoip):
9871 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9872 Country database. Closes ticket 28744.
9874 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9875 - Add missing dependency on libgdi32.dll for tor-print-ed-signing-
9876 cert.exe on Windows. Fixes bug 28485; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9878 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9879 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
9880 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
9881 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9883 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9884 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9885 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9886 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9887 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9888 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9890 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, boostrap):
9891 - Add missing resets of bootstrap tracking state when shutting down
9892 (regression caused by ticket 27169). Fixes bug 28524; bugfix
9895 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9896 - Use a separate DataDirectory for the test_rebind script.
9897 Previously, this script would run using the default DataDirectory,
9898 and sometimes fail. Fixes bug 28562; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9899 Patch from Taylor R Campbell.
9900 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9901 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9903 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9904 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9905 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9906 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9907 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9908 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9909 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9910 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9912 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9913 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9914 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9915 reported by Keifer Bly.
9918 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9919 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9921 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9922 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9923 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9924 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9925 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9926 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9927 Closes ticket 19566.
9929 o Documentation (onion services):
9930 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9931 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9932 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9933 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9934 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9935 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9938 Changes in version 0.3.5.5-alpha - 2018-11-16
9939 Tor 0.3.5.5-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier releases,
9940 including several that we hope to backport to older release series in
9943 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
9944 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
9945 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
9946 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
9947 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
9950 o Minor features (geoip):
9951 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9952 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
9954 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9955 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
9956 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
9957 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
9959 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
9960 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
9961 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
9962 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
9963 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
9966 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
9967 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9968 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9969 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9971 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9972 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9973 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9975 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
9976 - Make Doxygen work again after the code movement in the 0.3.5
9977 source tree. Fixes bug 28435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
9979 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9980 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9981 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9984 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9985 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9986 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9989 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9990 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9991 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9993 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
9994 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
9995 introduction circuits on an NACK. This lets the client decide
9996 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
9997 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
9998 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
9999 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
10000 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
10001 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
10002 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10005 Changes in version 0.3.5.4-alpha - 2018-11-08
10006 Tor 0.3.5.4-alpha includes numerous bugfixes on earlier versions and
10007 improves our continuous integration support. It continues our attempts
10008 to stabilize this alpha branch and build it into a foundation for an
10009 acceptable long-term-support release.
10011 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
10012 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
10013 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
10014 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
10015 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
10016 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10018 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
10019 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
10020 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
10021 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
10022 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10024 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10025 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
10027 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
10028 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
10030 o Minor features (Windows, continuous integration):
10031 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
10032 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
10034 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, also in 0.3.4.9):
10035 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
10036 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
10039 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10040 - Fix a pair of missing headers on OpenBSD. Fixes bug 28303; bugfix
10041 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
10043 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenSolaris):
10044 - Fix compilation on OpenSolaris and its descendants by adding a
10045 missing include to compat_pthreads.c. Fixes bug 27963; bugfix
10048 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
10049 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
10050 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
10053 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
10054 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
10055 with a different relay, instead of a BUG() warning with a
10056 backtrace. Fixes bug 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10058 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10059 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
10060 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
10061 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
10064 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client authorization):
10065 - Fix an assert() when adding a client authorization for the first
10066 time and then sending a HUP signal to the service. Before that,
10067 Tor would stop abruptly. Fixes bug 27995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10069 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10070 - Unless we have explicitly set HiddenServiceVersion, detect the
10071 onion service version and then look for invalid options.
10072 Previously, we did the reverse, but that broke existing configs
10073 which were pointed to a v2 service and had options like
10074 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient set. Fixes bug 28127; bugfix on
10075 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10077 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10078 - Make the OPE code (which is used for v3 onion services) run
10079 correctly on big-endian platforms. Fixes bug 28115; bugfix
10082 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
10083 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
10086 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
10087 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
10088 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
10089 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
10090 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10092 o Minor bugfixes (rust, also in 0.3.4.9):
10093 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
10094 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10095 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
10096 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
10097 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10099 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, also in 0.3.4.9):
10100 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
10101 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
10102 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
10103 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10105 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10106 - Avoid hangs and race conditions in test_rebind.py. Fixes bug
10107 27968; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10109 o Minor bugfixes (testing, also in 0.3.4.9):
10110 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
10111 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
10112 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
10113 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10115 o Documentation (onion service manpage):
10116 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
10117 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
10120 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
10121 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
10122 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
10123 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
10124 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
10126 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10127 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
10128 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10130 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10131 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
10132 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
10133 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
10134 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10136 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10137 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
10138 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
10139 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
10140 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
10143 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10144 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10145 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10146 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10148 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10149 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10150 Implements ticket 27252.
10151 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10152 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10153 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10154 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10155 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10156 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10157 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10159 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10160 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
10161 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
10162 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
10164 o Minor features (geoip):
10165 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10166 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
10168 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10169 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
10170 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
10171 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
10172 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10174 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
10175 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
10176 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10177 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
10178 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10181 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10182 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
10183 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
10186 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10187 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
10188 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
10189 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
10190 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
10192 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10193 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
10194 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
10196 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10197 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10198 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10200 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10201 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
10202 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
10203 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10205 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10206 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10207 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10209 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10210 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10211 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10214 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10215 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10216 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10218 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10219 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10220 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10223 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10224 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10225 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10226 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10227 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10229 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10230 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10231 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10232 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10233 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10234 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10236 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10237 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10238 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10241 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10242 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10243 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10244 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10245 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10246 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10247 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10248 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10250 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
10251 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10252 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10253 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10255 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10256 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
10257 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
10258 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
10259 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10261 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10262 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
10263 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10264 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
10265 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
10266 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10268 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
10269 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10270 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10271 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10272 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10273 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10275 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
10276 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10277 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10278 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10281 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
10282 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
10283 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
10284 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
10285 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10288 Changes in version 0.3.5.3-alpha - 2018-10-17
10289 Tor 0.3.5.3-alpha fixes several bugs, mostly from previous 0.3.5.x
10290 versions. One important fix for relays addresses a problem with rate-
10291 limiting code from back in 0.3.4.x: If the fix works out, we'll be
10292 backporting it soon. This release is still an alpha, but we hope it's
10293 getting closer and closer to stability.
10295 o Major features (onion services):
10296 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
10297 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
10298 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
10299 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
10300 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
10302 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10303 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
10304 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10306 o Major bugfixes (initialization, crash):
10307 - Fix an assertion crash that would stop Tor from starting up if it
10308 tried to activate a periodic event too early. Fixes bug 27861;
10309 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10311 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap):
10312 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
10313 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
10314 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
10315 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10317 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10318 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
10319 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
10320 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
10321 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
10324 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10325 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
10326 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
10327 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
10328 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
10329 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
10332 o Minor features (geoip):
10333 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10334 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
10336 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
10337 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
10338 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
10341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10342 - Compile the ed25519-donna code with a correct declaration of
10343 crypto_strongest_rand(). Previously, we built it with one type,
10344 but linked it against another in the unit tests, which caused
10345 compilation failures with LTO enabled. This could have caused
10346 other undefined behavior in the tests. Fixes bug 27728; bugfix
10349 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, netbsd):
10350 - Add a missing include back into procmon.c. Fixes bug 27990; bugfix
10353 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, appveyor):
10354 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
10355 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
10356 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
10357 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
10359 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
10360 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
10361 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
10362 were the same, the default setting (0) for
10363 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
10364 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
10367 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
10368 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
10369 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10371 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
10372 - In retry_listeners_ports(), make sure that we're removing a member
10373 of old_conns smartlist at most once. Fixes bug 27808; bugfix
10375 - Refrain from attempting socket rebinding when old and new
10376 listeners are in different address families. Fixes bug 27928;
10377 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10379 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10380 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
10381 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
10383 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
10384 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
10385 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
10386 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10387 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
10388 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
10389 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
10390 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
10391 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10393 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
10394 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
10395 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
10398 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10399 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
10400 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
10401 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
10403 - In test_rebind.py, check if the Python version is in the supported
10404 range. Fixes bug 27675; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
10406 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10407 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
10408 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
10409 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
10410 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
10411 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
10412 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
10413 Closes ticket 27814.
10414 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
10415 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
10416 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
10417 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
10418 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
10419 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
10422 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
10423 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
10424 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
10425 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
10428 Changes in version 0.3.5.2-alpha - 2018-09-21
10429 Tor 0.3.5.2-alpha fixes several bugs in 0.3.5.1-alpha, including one
10430 that made Tor think it had run out of sockets. Anybody running a relay
10431 or an onion service on 0.3.5.1-alpha should upgrade.
10433 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
10434 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
10435 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
10436 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
10437 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
10438 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
10440 o Major bugfixes (socket accounting):
10441 - In our socket accounting code, count a socket as closed even when
10442 it is closed indirectly by the TLS layer. Previously, we would
10443 count these sockets as still in use, and incorrectly believe that
10444 we had run out of sockets. Fixes bug 27795; bugfix
10447 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
10448 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
10449 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
10450 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
10451 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10453 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
10454 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
10455 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10456 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
10457 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
10460 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10461 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
10462 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
10463 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
10464 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10466 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
10467 - Fix an unlikely memory leak when trying to read a private key from
10468 a ridiculously large file. Fixes bug 27764; bugfix on
10469 0.3.5.1-alpha. This is CID 1439488.
10471 o Minor bugfixes (NSS):
10472 - Correctly detect failure to open a dummy TCP socket when stealing
10473 ownership of an fd from the NSS layer. Fixes bug 27782; bugfix
10476 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10477 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
10478 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
10479 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10481 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10482 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
10483 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
10484 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10486 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10487 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
10488 Closes ticket 27799.
10491 Changes in version 0.3.5.1-alpha - 2018-09-18
10492 Tor 0.3.5.1-alpha is the first release of the 0.3.5.x series. It adds
10493 client authorization for modern (v3) onion services, improves
10494 bootstrap reporting, begins reorganizing Tor's codebase, adds optional
10495 support for NSS in place of OpenSSL, and much more.
10497 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
10498 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
10499 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
10500 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
10501 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
10502 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
10504 o Major features (relay, UI change):
10505 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
10506 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
10507 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
10508 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
10509 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10510 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
10511 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
10513 o Major features (bootstrap):
10514 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
10515 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
10516 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
10517 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
10519 o Major features (new code layout):
10520 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
10521 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
10522 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
10523 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
10524 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
10525 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
10526 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
10528 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
10529 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
10530 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
10532 o Major features (onion services v3):
10533 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
10534 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
10535 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
10536 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
10537 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
10538 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
10539 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
10540 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
10541 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
10542 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
10543 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
10544 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
10545 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
10547 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
10548 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
10549 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
10550 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
10551 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
10552 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
10553 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
10555 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
10556 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
10557 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
10558 (if present), and restart Tor.
10560 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
10561 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
10562 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
10563 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
10566 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
10567 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
10568 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
10569 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10571 o Minor features (admin tools):
10572 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
10573 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
10576 o Minor features (build):
10577 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
10578 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
10579 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
10580 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
10582 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
10583 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
10584 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
10585 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
10586 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
10588 o Minor features (code layout):
10589 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
10590 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
10591 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
10592 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
10595 o Minor features (compilation):
10596 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
10597 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
10598 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
10599 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
10602 o Minor features (config):
10603 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
10606 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10607 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
10608 Implements ticket 27252.
10609 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10610 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10611 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
10612 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
10613 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
10614 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
10615 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
10616 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
10617 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
10619 o Minor features (controller):
10620 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
10621 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
10622 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
10623 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
10624 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
10625 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
10626 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
10627 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
10629 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
10630 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
10631 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
10632 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
10634 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
10635 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
10636 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
10637 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10639 o Minor features (development):
10640 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
10641 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
10643 o Minor features (directory authority):
10644 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
10645 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
10646 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
10647 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
10649 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
10650 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
10653 o Minor features (embedding API):
10654 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
10655 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
10656 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
10657 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
10658 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
10659 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
10662 o Minor features (geoip):
10663 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10664 Country database. Closes ticket 27631.
10666 o Minor features (memory management):
10667 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
10668 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
10671 o Minor features (memory usage):
10672 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
10673 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
10674 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
10676 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
10677 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
10678 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
10680 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
10681 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
10682 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
10683 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
10685 o Minor features (testing):
10686 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
10687 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
10689 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
10690 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
10691 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
10693 o Minor features (UI):
10694 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
10695 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
10696 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
10697 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
10698 Closes ticket 26703.
10700 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
10701 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
10702 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
10703 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
10705 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10706 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
10707 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
10708 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
10709 - Use time_t for all values in
10710 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
10711 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
10712 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10714 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
10715 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
10716 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
10717 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
10718 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
10721 o Minor bugfixes (client, reachableaddresses):
10722 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
10723 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
10724 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
10725 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
10726 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10728 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
10729 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
10730 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
10731 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
10733 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
10734 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
10735 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
10736 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
10737 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
10739 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10740 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
10741 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10743 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10744 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
10745 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
10746 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
10747 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
10750 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
10751 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
10752 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10754 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
10755 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
10756 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
10759 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
10760 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
10761 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
10762 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
10763 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10765 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10766 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
10767 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
10768 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
10769 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
10770 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
10771 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
10773 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
10774 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
10775 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
10776 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
10777 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10779 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
10780 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
10781 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10783 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
10784 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
10785 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
10786 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
10789 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
10790 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
10791 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
10794 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
10795 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
10796 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
10797 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
10798 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
10800 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
10801 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
10802 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
10803 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
10805 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10806 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
10807 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
10808 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
10810 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
10811 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
10812 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
10813 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
10814 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
10815 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10816 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10817 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
10818 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
10819 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10821 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protover):
10822 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
10823 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
10824 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
10825 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
10826 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10827 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
10828 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10830 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10831 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
10832 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10833 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
10834 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
10835 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
10836 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
10837 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10838 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
10839 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
10840 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10841 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
10842 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
10844 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10845 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
10846 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
10847 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
10848 directory within the top-level src directory.
10849 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
10850 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
10851 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
10852 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
10853 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
10854 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
10855 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
10856 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
10857 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
10858 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
10859 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
10860 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
10861 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
10862 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
10863 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
10864 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
10865 Closes ticket 21349.
10866 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
10867 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
10868 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
10869 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
10870 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
10871 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
10872 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
10874 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
10875 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
10876 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
10879 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
10880 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
10881 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
10882 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
10883 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
10885 o Removed features:
10886 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
10887 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
10888 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
10889 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
10890 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
10891 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
10892 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
10893 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
10894 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
10895 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
10896 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
10897 Closes ticket 26367.
10900 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
10901 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
10903 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10904 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
10905 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
10906 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
10908 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10909 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10911 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10912 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10913 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10914 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10916 o Minor features (geoip):
10917 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10918 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10920 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10921 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
10922 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
10923 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
10925 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10926 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10927 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10928 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10929 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10930 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10931 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10932 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10935 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10936 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10937 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10938 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10940 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10941 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10942 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10943 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10945 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10946 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
10947 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
10948 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10950 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10951 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
10952 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10953 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
10954 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
10956 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10957 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10958 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10961 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10962 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10963 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10964 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10965 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10967 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10968 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10969 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10972 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10973 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
10974 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
10975 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10977 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
10978 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10979 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10981 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
10982 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10983 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10986 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10987 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10988 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10989 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10990 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10992 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
10993 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10994 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10997 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
10998 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
11000 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11001 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11002 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11003 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11005 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11006 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11008 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11009 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11010 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11011 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11013 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11014 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11017 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11018 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11019 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11020 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11022 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11023 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11024 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11025 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11027 o Minor features (geoip):
11028 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11029 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11031 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11032 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11033 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11034 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11035 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11036 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11037 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11039 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11040 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11041 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11042 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11043 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11044 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11045 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11046 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11049 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11050 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11051 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11052 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11054 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11055 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11056 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11057 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11059 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11060 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11061 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11062 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11063 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11065 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11066 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11067 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11068 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11069 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11071 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11072 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11073 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11076 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11077 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11078 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11079 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11080 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11082 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11083 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11084 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11087 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11088 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11089 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11092 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11093 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11094 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11097 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11098 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11100 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11101 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11102 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11103 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11105 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11106 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
11107 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
11108 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11110 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11111 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11112 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11114 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11115 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11116 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11117 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11118 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11119 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11120 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11123 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
11124 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
11125 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
11126 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
11127 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11129 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11130 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11131 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11132 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11133 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11135 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11136 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11137 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11140 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
11141 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
11143 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11144 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
11145 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
11146 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
11148 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11149 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11150 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11151 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11153 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11154 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
11155 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11157 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11158 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11159 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11160 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11162 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11163 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11166 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11167 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11168 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11169 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11171 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11172 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11173 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11174 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11176 o Minor features (geoip):
11177 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11178 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11180 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11181 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11182 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11183 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11184 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11185 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11186 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11188 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11189 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11190 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11191 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11192 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11193 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11194 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11195 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11198 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11199 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11200 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11201 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11203 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11204 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11205 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11206 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11208 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11209 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11210 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11211 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11212 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11214 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11215 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11216 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11217 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11218 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11220 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11221 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11222 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11225 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11226 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11227 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11228 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11230 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11231 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11232 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11233 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11234 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11236 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11237 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11238 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11241 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11242 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11243 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11246 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11247 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11248 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11251 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11252 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11253 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11254 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11256 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11257 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11258 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11261 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11262 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11264 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11265 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11266 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11267 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11268 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11269 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11270 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11272 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11273 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11274 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11275 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11276 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11278 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11279 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
11280 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
11281 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11283 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11284 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11285 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11287 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
11288 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11289 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11290 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11291 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11292 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11293 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11297 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11298 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11299 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11300 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11302 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
11303 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11304 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11305 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11306 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11308 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
11309 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11310 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11313 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
11314 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
11315 compilation and portability fixes.
11317 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
11318 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
11319 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
11320 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
11321 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
11322 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
11323 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
11324 our anti-denial-of-service code.
11326 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.7-rc. For a complete list of changes
11327 since 0.3.3.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
11329 o Minor features (compatibility):
11330 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
11331 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
11332 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
11334 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11335 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
11336 Implements ticket 27449.
11337 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
11338 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
11341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11342 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
11343 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
11344 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
11345 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
11346 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
11347 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
11348 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
11351 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11352 - Disable gcc hardening in Appveyor Windows 64-bit builds. As of
11353 August 29 2018, Appveyor images come with gcc 8.2.0 by default.
11354 Executables compiled for 64-bit Windows with this version of gcc
11355 crash when Tor's --enable-gcc-hardening flag is set. Fixes bug
11356 27460; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11357 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
11358 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11359 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
11360 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
11362 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11363 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
11364 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
11367 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
11368 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
11369 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
11370 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
11371 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11372 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
11373 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
11376 Changes in version 0.3.4.7-rc - 2018-08-24
11377 Tor 0.3.4.7-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11378 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11379 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11380 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11382 o Minor features (bug workaround):
11383 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
11384 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
11385 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
11387 o Minor features (continuous integration):
11388 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
11389 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11391 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
11392 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
11393 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
11394 Implements ticket 27275.
11395 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
11396 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
11398 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
11399 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
11402 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11403 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
11404 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
11405 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
11407 o Minor features (geoip):
11408 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11409 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
11411 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
11412 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
11413 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
11414 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11416 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11417 - Improve Appveyor CI IRC logging. Generate correct branches and
11418 URLs for pull requests and tags. Use unambiguous short commits.
11419 Fixes bug 26979; bugfix on master.
11420 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11421 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
11422 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
11423 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11425 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
11426 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
11427 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
11428 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11430 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11431 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
11432 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
11433 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
11434 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
11436 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11437 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
11438 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
11441 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11442 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
11443 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
11446 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
11447 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
11449 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
11450 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11451 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
11452 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
11453 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
11454 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
11455 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
11457 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
11458 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
11459 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
11460 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
11461 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
11463 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
11464 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
11465 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
11466 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
11467 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
11469 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
11470 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
11471 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
11472 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
11473 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11475 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
11476 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
11477 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11480 Changes in version 0.3.4.6-rc - 2018-08-06
11481 Tor 0.3.4.6-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11482 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11483 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11484 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11486 o Major bugfixes (event scheduler):
11487 - When we enable a periodic event, schedule it in the event loop
11488 rather than running it immediately. Previously, we would re-run
11489 periodic events immediately in the middle of (for example)
11490 changing our options, with unpredictable effects. Fixes bug 27003;
11491 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11493 o Minor features (compilation):
11494 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11495 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11497 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
11498 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
11499 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11500 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
11501 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
11502 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
11504 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
11505 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
11506 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
11507 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
11509 o Minor features (controller):
11510 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
11511 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
11512 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
11514 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
11515 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
11516 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
11519 o Minor features (geoip):
11520 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11521 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11523 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11524 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11526 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11527 - Update build system so that tor builds again with --disable-unittests
11528 after recent refactoring. Fixes bug 26789; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
11529 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11530 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11531 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11532 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11534 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11535 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11536 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11537 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
11538 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
11539 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11541 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11542 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11543 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11546 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11547 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11548 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11550 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11551 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
11552 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
11555 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
11556 - Avoid a compilation error in test_bwmgt.c on Solaris 10. Fixes bug
11557 26994; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11558 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
11559 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
11560 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11562 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
11563 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
11564 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
11565 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
11567 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11568 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
11569 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11571 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11572 - When running the ntor_ref.py and hs_ntor_ref.py tests, make sure
11573 only to pass strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python
11574 subprocess module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this.
11575 Fixes bug 26535; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha (for ntor_ref.py) and
11576 0.3.1.1-alpha (for hs_ntor_ref.py).
11578 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
11579 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
11580 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
11581 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
11582 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
11585 Changes in version 0.3.4.5-rc - 2018-07-13
11586 Tor 0.3.4.5-rc moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11587 bridge relays should upgrade.
11589 o Directory authority changes:
11590 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11591 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11592 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11595 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
11596 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11597 bridge relays should upgrade.
11599 o Directory authority changes:
11600 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11601 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11602 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11605 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
11606 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11607 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11610 o Directory authority changes:
11611 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11612 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11613 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11615 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11616 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11617 Closes ticket 26343.
11619 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11620 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11621 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11622 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11623 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11625 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11626 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
11627 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
11629 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11630 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11631 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11632 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11634 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11635 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
11636 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
11638 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11639 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11640 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11641 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11642 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11643 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11645 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11646 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11647 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11648 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11650 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11651 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11652 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11655 o Minor features (geoip):
11656 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11657 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11659 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11660 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11661 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11662 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11663 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11665 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11666 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11667 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11669 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11670 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11671 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11672 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11673 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11674 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11675 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11676 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11679 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11680 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11681 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11682 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11683 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11684 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11686 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11687 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11688 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11689 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11690 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11692 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11693 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11694 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11695 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11696 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11698 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11699 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11700 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11703 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11704 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11705 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11707 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11708 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11709 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11710 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11712 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11713 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11714 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11715 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11716 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11717 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11718 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11720 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11721 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11722 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11723 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11726 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11727 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11728 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11730 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11731 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
11732 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11734 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11735 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11736 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11737 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11740 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11741 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11742 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11743 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11745 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11746 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11747 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11749 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11750 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11751 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11754 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
11755 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
11756 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
11759 o Directory authority changes:
11760 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
11761 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
11762 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
11764 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
11765 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
11766 Closes ticket 26343.
11768 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11769 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
11770 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
11771 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
11772 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
11774 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11775 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11776 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11777 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11779 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11780 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
11781 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
11782 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
11783 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
11784 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
11786 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11787 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11788 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11791 o Minor features (geoip):
11792 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11793 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11795 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11796 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11797 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11798 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11799 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11801 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11802 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11803 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11805 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11806 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11807 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11808 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11811 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11812 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
11813 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
11814 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
11815 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
11816 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11818 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11819 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11820 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11821 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11822 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11824 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11825 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11826 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11829 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
11830 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
11831 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11833 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
11834 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11835 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11836 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11838 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11839 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11840 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11842 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
11843 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11844 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11847 Changes in version 0.3.4.4-rc - 2018-07-09
11848 Tor 0.3.4.4-rc fixes several small compilation, portability, and
11849 correctness issues in previous versions of Tor. This version is a
11850 release candidate: if no serious bugs are found, we expect that the
11851 stable 0.3.4 release will be (almost) the same as this release.
11853 o Minor features (compilation):
11854 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11855 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11858 o Minor features (geoip):
11859 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11860 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11862 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
11863 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
11865 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11866 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11867 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11868 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11869 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11871 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
11872 - Report the port correctly when a port is configured to bind to
11873 "auto". Fixes bug 26568; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
11874 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11875 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11876 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11878 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
11879 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
11880 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
11883 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness):
11884 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11885 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11887 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility):
11888 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11889 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11890 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11891 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11892 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11893 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11894 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11898 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
11899 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
11900 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
11902 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11903 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11904 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11905 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11907 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11908 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11909 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11912 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11913 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
11914 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
11917 o Minor features (geoip):
11918 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11919 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
11921 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11922 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11923 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11924 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11926 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11927 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
11928 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
11929 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
11930 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
11933 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11934 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
11935 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
11936 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
11937 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11939 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11940 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
11941 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
11942 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
11944 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11945 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
11946 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
11948 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
11949 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
11950 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
11951 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
11954 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11955 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
11956 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
11957 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
11959 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
11960 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
11961 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
11962 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
11963 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11964 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
11965 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
11966 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
11970 Changes in version 0.3.4.3-alpha - 2018-06-26
11971 Tor 0.3.4.3-alpha fixes several bugs in earlier versions, including
11972 one that was causing stability issues on directory authorities.
11974 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
11975 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
11976 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
11977 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
11979 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing):
11980 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
11981 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
11984 o Minor feature (directory authorities):
11985 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
11986 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
11987 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
11989 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic):
11990 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
11991 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
11992 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
11994 o Minor features (unit tests):
11995 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
11996 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
11997 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
12000 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12001 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
12002 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
12003 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12004 - When linking the libtor_testing.a library, only include the
12005 dirauth object files once. Previously, they were getting added
12006 twice. Fixes bug 26402; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12007 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
12008 Closes ticket 26245.
12010 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12011 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
12012 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
12013 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
12014 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
12015 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12017 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12018 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
12019 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
12020 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
12023 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12024 - Fix compilation of the doctests in the Rust crypto crate. Fixes
12025 bug 26415; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12026 - Instead of trying to read the geoip configuration files from
12027 within the unit tests, instead create our own ersatz files with
12028 just enough geoip data in the format we expect. Trying to read
12029 from the source directory created problems on Windows with mingw,
12030 where the build system's paths are not the same as the platform's
12031 paths. Fixes bug 25787; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12032 - Refrain from trying to get an item from an empty smartlist in
12033 test_bridges_clear_bridge_list. Set DEBUG_SMARTLIST in unit tests
12034 to catch improper smartlist usage. Furthermore, enable
12035 DEBUG_SMARTLIST globally when build is configured with fragile
12036 hardening. Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12039 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
12040 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
12041 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
12043 o Directory authority changes:
12044 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
12045 Closes ticket 26343.
12047 o Minor features (geoip):
12048 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12049 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
12051 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
12052 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
12053 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
12054 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
12055 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
12056 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12058 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
12059 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
12060 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12062 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
12063 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
12064 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
12065 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
12066 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12068 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
12069 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
12070 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12072 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12073 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
12074 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
12075 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12076 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12077 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12080 Changes in version 0.3.4.2-alpha - 2018-06-12
12081 Tor 0.3.4.2-alpha fixes several minor bugs in the previous alpha
12082 release, and forward-ports an authority-only security fix from 0.3.3.6.
12084 o Directory authority changes:
12085 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
12086 Closes ticket 26343.
12088 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service, also in 0.3.3.6):
12089 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
12090 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
12091 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
12092 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
12094 o Minor features (continuous integration):
12095 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
12096 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
12097 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
12099 o Minor features (geoip):
12100 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12101 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
12103 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl):
12104 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
12105 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
12106 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
12107 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
12108 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12110 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12111 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
12112 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12113 - Fix compilation when using OpenSSL 1.1.0 with the "no-deprecated"
12114 flag enabled. Fixes bug 26156; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12115 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
12116 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
12117 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12119 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
12120 - Do not count 0-length RELAY_COMMAND_DATA cells as valid data in
12121 CIRC_BW events. Previously, such cells were counted entirely in
12122 the OVERHEAD field. Now they are not. Fixes bug 26259; bugfix
12125 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12126 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
12127 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
12128 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
12129 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12131 o Minor bugfixes (hardening):
12132 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
12133 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12135 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12136 - Fix a bug that blocked the creation of ephemeral v3 onion
12137 services. Fixes bug 25939; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12139 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
12140 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
12141 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
12142 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
12146 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
12147 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
12148 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
12150 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
12151 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
12152 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
12153 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
12154 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
12155 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
12157 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.5-rc. For a list of all changes
12158 since 0.3.2.10, see the ReleaseNotes file.
12160 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12161 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
12162 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
12163 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
12164 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12166 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
12167 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
12168 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
12169 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
12170 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
12172 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12173 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
12174 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
12175 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12177 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12178 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
12179 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
12180 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12182 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12183 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
12184 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
12186 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12187 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
12188 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
12191 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12192 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
12193 Closes ticket 26006.
12195 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12196 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
12197 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
12198 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
12199 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
12200 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12202 o Minor features (geoip):
12203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12204 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12206 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12207 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12208 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12211 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12212 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
12213 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
12214 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
12215 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12217 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12218 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12219 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12220 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12221 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12224 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12225 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12226 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12228 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12229 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12230 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12231 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12232 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12233 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12234 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12236 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12237 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12238 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12240 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
12241 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12242 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12245 Changes in version 0.3.4.1-alpha - 2018-05-17
12246 Tor 0.3.4.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.4.x series. It
12247 includes refactoring to begin reducing Tor's binary size and idle CPU
12248 usage on mobile, along with prep work for new bandwidth scanners,
12249 improvements to the experimental "vanguards" feature, and numerous
12250 other small features and bugfixes.
12252 o New system requirements:
12253 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
12254 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
12255 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
12256 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
12258 o Major feature (directory authority, modularization):
12259 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
12260 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
12261 To disable the module, the configure option
12262 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
12263 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
12265 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
12266 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
12267 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
12268 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
12269 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
12270 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
12271 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
12272 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
12273 events are now disabled with Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
12274 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
12275 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes ticket
12277 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
12278 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
12279 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
12280 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
12281 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
12282 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
12283 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
12284 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
12285 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
12286 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
12287 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
12288 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
12289 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
12290 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
12291 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
12292 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
12293 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
12294 Tor's uptime (26009).
12296 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security):
12297 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
12298 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
12299 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
12300 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
12302 o Major bugfixes (crash):
12303 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
12304 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
12305 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12307 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
12308 - Avoid a crash when testing router reachability on a router that
12309 could have an ed25519 ID, but which does not. Fixes bug 25415;
12310 bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12312 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
12313 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
12314 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
12316 o Major bugfixes (protover, voting):
12317 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12318 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12319 avoiding a potential (but small impact) DoS attack where specially
12320 crafted protocol strings would expand to several potential
12321 megabytes in memory. In the process, several portions of code were
12322 revised to be methods on new, custom types, rather than functions
12323 taking interchangeable types, thus increasing type safety of the
12324 module. Custom error types and handling were added as well, in
12325 order to facilitate better error dismissal/handling in outside
12326 crates and avoid mistakenly passing an internal error string to C
12327 over the FFI boundary. Many tests were added, and some previous
12328 differences between the C and Rust implementations have been
12329 remedied. Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12331 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service):
12332 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
12333 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
12336 o Minor features (accounting):
12337 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
12338 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
12339 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
12340 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
12342 o Minor features (code quality):
12343 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
12344 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
12345 Closes ticket 25024.
12347 o Minor features (compatibility):
12348 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
12349 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
12350 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
12351 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
12352 Closes ticket 26006.
12354 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
12355 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
12356 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
12357 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
12358 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
12359 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
12361 o Minor features (configuration):
12362 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
12363 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
12364 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
12365 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
12366 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
12368 o Minor features (continuous integration):
12369 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
12370 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
12371 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
12372 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
12373 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
12375 o Minor features (control port):
12376 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
12377 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
12378 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
12379 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12380 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
12381 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
12382 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
12383 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
12384 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
12385 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
12387 o Minor features (directory authority):
12388 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
12389 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
12390 Closes ticket 23909.
12392 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
12393 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
12394 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
12395 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
12397 o Minor features (entry guards):
12398 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
12399 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
12401 o Minor features (geoip):
12402 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
12403 database. Closes ticket 26104.
12405 o Minor features (performance):
12406 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
12407 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
12408 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
12409 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
12411 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
12412 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
12414 o Minor features (testing):
12415 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
12416 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
12417 more deterministic.
12418 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
12419 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
12420 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
12421 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
12422 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
12423 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
12425 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
12426 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
12427 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
12428 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
12429 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12431 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
12432 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
12433 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
12434 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
12435 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
12436 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
12438 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12439 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
12440 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
12441 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
12443 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection):
12444 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
12445 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
12446 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
12447 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
12450 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12451 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
12452 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
12455 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
12456 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
12457 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12458 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
12459 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
12461 o Minor bugfixes (control interface):
12462 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
12463 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
12464 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
12465 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12467 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12468 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
12469 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
12470 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
12471 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12473 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client):
12474 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the cell
12475 immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for close, but
12476 continue processing the cell as if the connection were open. Fixes bug
12477 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
12479 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12480 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
12481 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12482 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
12483 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
12484 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
12487 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12488 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
12489 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
12490 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
12491 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
12494 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
12495 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
12496 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
12497 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
12498 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
12499 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
12500 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
12502 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12503 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
12504 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12506 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
12507 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
12508 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12509 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
12510 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
12511 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
12512 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12514 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12515 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
12516 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
12517 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
12518 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
12519 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12521 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12522 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
12523 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
12526 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
12527 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
12528 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
12529 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12531 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
12532 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
12533 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
12534 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
12535 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
12536 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
12537 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
12539 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
12540 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
12541 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12543 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process):
12544 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
12545 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
12546 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12548 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12549 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
12550 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
12551 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
12552 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
12553 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12554 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
12555 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
12557 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
12558 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
12559 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12560 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
12561 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
12562 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
12563 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
12565 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
12566 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
12567 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
12568 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
12569 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
12571 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
12572 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
12573 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
12576 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
12577 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
12578 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
12579 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
12580 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
12581 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12583 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12584 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
12585 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
12586 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
12587 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
12588 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
12589 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
12590 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
12592 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
12593 confusing we renamed some functions and
12594 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
12595 router_should_check_reachability() and
12596 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
12597 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
12598 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
12599 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
12600 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
12602 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
12603 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
12605 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
12606 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
12607 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12608 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
12609 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
12610 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
12611 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
12612 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
12613 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
12614 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
12615 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
12616 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
12617 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
12618 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
12619 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
12620 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12621 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
12622 Closes ticket 25766.
12623 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
12624 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
12625 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
12626 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
12627 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
12628 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
12629 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
12630 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
12631 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
12632 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
12633 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12634 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
12635 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
12636 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
12638 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
12639 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
12640 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
12641 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
12642 before. Closes ticket 26016.
12643 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
12644 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
12645 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
12646 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
12648 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
12649 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
12650 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
12651 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
12653 o Deprecated features:
12654 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
12655 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
12656 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
12657 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
12658 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
12659 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
12662 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
12663 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
12665 o Removed features:
12666 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
12667 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
12668 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
12669 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
12670 24378 and proposal 290.
12671 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
12672 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
12673 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
12674 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
12675 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
12676 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
12677 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
12678 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
12679 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
12680 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
12681 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
12682 their local router. Closes 25409.
12683 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
12684 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
12685 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
12686 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
12687 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
12688 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
12689 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
12690 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
12691 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
12692 Closes ticket 25268.
12695 Changes in version 0.3.3.5-rc - 2018-04-15
12696 Tor 0.3.3.5-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
12697 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
12699 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.3 series. If we find no
12700 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.3 release will
12701 be nearly identical to this one.
12703 o Major bugfixes (security, protover, voting):
12704 - Revise Rust implementation of protover to use a more memory-
12705 efficient voting algorithm and corresponding data structures, thus
12706 avoiding a potential memory-based DoS attack where specially
12707 crafted protocol strings would expand to fill available memory.
12708 Fixes bug 24031; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12710 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
12711 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
12712 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
12713 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
12714 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
12715 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
12716 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
12718 o Minor feature (continuous integration):
12719 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
12720 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
12722 o Minor features (config options):
12723 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
12724 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
12725 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
12728 o Minor features (geoip):
12729 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12730 Country database. Closes ticket 25718.
12732 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12733 - When using a listed relay as a bridge, and also using
12734 microdescriptors, and considering that relay as a non-bridge in a
12735 circuit, treat its microdescriptor as a valid source of
12736 information about that relay. This change should prevent a non-
12737 fatal assertion error. Fixes bug 25691; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
12739 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
12740 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
12741 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
12742 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
12744 o Minor bugfixes (distribution, compilation, rust):
12745 - Build correctly when the rust dependencies submodule is loaded,
12746 but the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES environment variable is not set.
12747 Fixes bug 25679; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12748 - Actually include all of our Rust source in our source
12749 distributions. (Previously, a few of the files were accidentally
12750 omitted.) Fixes bug 25732; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
12752 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12753 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
12754 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
12755 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
12756 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12757 - Revert a misformatting issue in the ExitPolicy documentation.
12758 Fixes bug 25582; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12760 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
12761 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
12762 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
12763 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
12764 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
12766 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12767 - Re-instate counting the client HSDir fetch circuits against the
12768 MaxClientCircuitsPending rate limit. Fixes bug 24989; bugfix
12770 - Remove underscores from the _HSLayer{2,3}Nodes options. This
12771 expert-user configuration can now be enabled as HSLayer{2,3}Nodes.
12772 Fixes bug 25581; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha
12774 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12775 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
12776 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
12778 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
12779 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
12780 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
12784 Changes in version 0.3.3.4-alpha - 2018-03-29
12785 Tor 0.3.3.4-alpha includes various bugfixes for issues found during
12786 the alpha testing of earlier releases in its series. We are
12787 approaching a stable 0.3.3.4-alpha release: more testing is welcome!
12789 o New system requirements:
12790 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
12791 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
12793 o Major bugfixes (relay, connection):
12794 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
12795 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
12796 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
12797 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12799 o Minor features (geoip):
12800 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 8 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12801 Country database. Closes ticket 25469.
12803 o Minor features (log messages):
12804 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
12805 information about memory usage from the different compression
12806 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
12808 o Minor features (sandbox):
12809 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
12810 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
12811 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
12813 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
12814 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
12815 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
12816 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
12818 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
12819 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
12820 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
12822 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
12823 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
12824 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
12825 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
12827 o Minor bugfixes (controller, reliability):
12828 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
12829 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
12830 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
12832 o Major bugfixes (networking):
12833 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
12834 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
12835 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
12837 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
12838 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
12839 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
12841 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
12842 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service
12843 descriptor rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's
12844 valid-after time. Instead, log a warning message with extra
12845 information, so we can better hunt down the cause of this
12846 assertion. Fixes bug 25306; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12848 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12849 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
12850 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
12851 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
12853 - Rust crates are now automatically detected and tested. Previously,
12854 some crates were not tested by `make test-rust` due to a static
12855 string in the `src/test/test_rust.sh` script specifying which
12856 crates to test. Fixes bug 25560; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha.
12858 o Minor bugfixes (testing, benchmarks):
12859 - Fix a crash when running benchmark tests on win32 systems. The
12860 crash was due to a mutex that wasn't initialized before logging
12861 and options were initialized. Fixes bug 25479; bugfix
12864 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, ipv6):
12865 - Avoid a bug warning that could occur when trying to connect to a
12866 relay over IPv6. This warning would occur on a Tor instance that
12867 downloads router descriptors, but prefers to use microdescriptors.
12868 Fixes bug 25213; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
12870 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12871 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
12872 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
12876 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
12878 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
12879 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
12882 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
12883 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
12886 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
12887 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
12889 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
12890 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
12892 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
12895 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
12896 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
12897 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
12899 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
12900 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
12901 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
12902 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
12905 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12906 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
12907 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
12908 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
12911 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12912 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
12913 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
12914 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
12915 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
12916 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
12917 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
12918 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
12919 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
12920 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
12921 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
12922 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
12923 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
12925 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12926 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12927 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12929 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12930 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
12931 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
12932 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
12933 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
12934 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
12935 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
12937 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12938 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
12939 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12941 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12942 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
12943 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
12944 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
12945 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
12946 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
12947 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12949 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12950 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
12951 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
12952 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
12954 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12955 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12956 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12957 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12959 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12960 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
12961 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
12962 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
12963 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
12964 Closes ticket 24978.
12966 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12967 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12968 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12969 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12970 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12971 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12972 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12973 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12974 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12976 o Minor features (geoip):
12977 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12980 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12981 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
12982 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
12983 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
12984 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
12986 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12987 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
12988 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
12989 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
12990 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
12992 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
12993 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12994 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12995 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12996 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12999 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13000 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
13001 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
13002 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
13003 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
13004 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
13005 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
13006 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
13007 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
13008 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
13009 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
13012 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
13013 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13014 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13016 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13017 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
13018 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
13021 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13022 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13023 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13024 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13025 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13026 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13027 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13029 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13030 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
13031 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13032 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
13033 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
13034 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
13035 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
13036 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
13037 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
13040 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13041 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
13042 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
13043 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
13044 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
13045 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13047 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13048 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13049 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13050 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13052 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
13053 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13054 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13055 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13056 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13059 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
13060 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13061 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13062 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13063 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13064 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13066 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13067 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13068 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13069 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13070 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13071 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13072 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13073 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13074 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13075 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13076 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13077 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13079 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13080 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13081 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13082 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13084 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13085 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13086 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13087 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13089 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
13090 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13091 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13092 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13095 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
13096 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
13097 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
13098 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
13099 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
13101 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13102 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13104 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13105 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13107 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13108 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13109 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13112 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
13113 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13114 later Tor releases.
13116 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13117 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13119 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
13120 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
13122 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13125 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
13126 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
13127 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
13129 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13130 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13131 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13132 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13135 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13136 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13137 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13138 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13139 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13140 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13141 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13142 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13143 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13144 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13145 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13146 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13147 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13149 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
13150 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
13151 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
13152 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
13153 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
13154 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
13155 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
13156 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
13157 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
13159 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13160 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13161 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13162 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13163 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13164 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13165 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13167 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
13168 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
13169 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
13170 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
13172 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
13173 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13174 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13175 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13176 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13177 Closes ticket 24978.
13179 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13180 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13181 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13182 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13184 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
13185 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
13186 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
13187 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
13188 information. Closes ticket 24801.
13189 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
13190 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
13191 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
13192 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
13194 o Minor features (geoip):
13195 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13198 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13199 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
13200 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
13202 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13203 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13204 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13205 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13206 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13208 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13209 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13210 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13211 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13212 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13214 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
13215 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
13216 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
13217 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
13218 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
13221 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13222 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
13223 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
13225 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13226 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
13227 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
13230 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13231 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13232 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13233 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13234 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13235 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13236 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13238 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
13239 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
13240 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
13241 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
13242 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
13245 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
13246 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
13247 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
13248 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
13249 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
13250 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
13252 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
13253 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13254 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13255 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13257 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
13258 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
13259 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
13260 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
13261 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
13262 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
13263 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13264 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
13265 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
13266 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
13267 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
13268 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
13270 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
13271 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
13272 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
13273 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
13276 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13277 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
13278 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
13279 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
13280 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
13282 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13283 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13285 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13286 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13289 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
13290 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
13291 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
13294 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13295 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13297 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
13298 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
13299 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
13300 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
13301 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
13302 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
13305 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
13306 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
13308 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13311 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
13312 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13313 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13314 the DoS mitigations.)
13316 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13317 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13318 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13319 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13322 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13323 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13324 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
13325 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13327 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13328 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13329 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13330 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13331 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13332 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13333 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13334 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13335 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13336 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13337 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13338 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13339 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13341 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13342 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13343 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13344 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13345 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13346 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13347 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13348 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13349 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13350 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13351 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13353 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13354 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13355 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13357 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13358 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13359 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13360 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13361 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13362 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13363 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13365 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13366 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13367 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13368 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13370 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13371 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13372 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13373 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13375 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13376 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13377 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13378 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13379 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13380 Closes ticket 24978.
13382 o Minor features (geoip):
13383 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13386 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13387 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13388 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
13391 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13392 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13393 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13394 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13395 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13397 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13398 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13399 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13400 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13401 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13402 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13403 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13405 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13406 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13407 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13408 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13409 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13411 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13412 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13413 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13414 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13416 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13417 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13418 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13419 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13420 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13422 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13423 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13424 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13425 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13427 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13428 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
13429 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
13430 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13432 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13433 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
13434 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
13435 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13437 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13438 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13440 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13441 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13443 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
13444 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
13445 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
13447 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
13448 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13449 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13450 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13451 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13453 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
13454 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13455 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13457 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
13458 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
13459 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
13463 Changes in version 0.3.3.3-alpha - 2018-03-03
13464 Tor 0.3.3.3-alpha is the third alpha release for the 0.3.3.x series.
13465 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
13466 against directory authorities tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
13468 Additionally, with this release, we are upgrading the severity of a
13469 bug fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha. Bug 24700, which was fixed in
13470 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely triggered in order to crash relays with
13471 a use-after-free pattern. As such, we are now tracking that bug as
13472 TROVE-2018-002 and CVE-2018-0491. This bug affected versions
13473 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13475 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
13478 Relays running 0.3.2.x should upgrade to one of the versions released
13479 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
13480 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
13481 the DoS mitigations.)
13483 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority):
13484 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
13485 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
13486 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
13489 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
13490 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
13491 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
13492 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
13493 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
13494 Closes ticket 24978.
13496 o Minor features (logging):
13497 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
13498 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
13500 o Minor features (testing):
13501 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
13504 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service):
13505 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
13506 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
13507 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
13508 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
13509 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
13510 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
13512 o Minor bugfixes (DoS mitigation):
13513 - Add extra safety checks when refilling the circuit creation bucket
13514 to ensure we never set a value above the allowed maximum burst.
13515 Fixes bug 25202; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
13516 - When a new consensus arrives, don't update our DoS-mitigation
13517 parameters if we aren't a public relay. Fixes bug 25223; bugfix
13520 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
13521 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
13522 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old option
13523 still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix on 0.2.6.3.
13525 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13526 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
13527 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
13528 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
13529 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
13532 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
13533 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
13535 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
13536 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13538 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, rust):
13539 - Resolve a denial-of-service issue caused by an infinite loop in
13540 the rust protover code. Fixes bug 25250, bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
13541 Also tracked as TROVE-2018-003.
13543 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13544 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
13545 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
13548 Changes in version 0.3.3.2-alpha - 2018-02-10
13549 Tor 0.3.3.2-alpha is the second alpha in the 0.3.3.x series. It
13550 introduces a mechanism to handle the high loads that many relay
13551 operators have been reporting recently. It also fixes several bugs in
13552 older releases. If this new code proves reliable, we plan to backport
13553 it to older supported release series.
13555 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
13556 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
13557 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
13558 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
13559 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
13560 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
13561 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
13562 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
13563 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
13564 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
13565 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
13566 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
13567 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
13569 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
13570 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
13571 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
13572 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
13573 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
13574 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
13575 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
13576 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13578 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions):
13579 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
13580 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13582 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus):
13583 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
13584 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
13585 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13587 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
13588 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
13589 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
13590 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
13592 o Minor features (directory authority):
13593 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
13594 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
13596 o Minor features (geoip):
13597 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
13600 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
13601 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
13602 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic for
13605 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
13606 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
13607 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
13608 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
13609 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13611 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
13612 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
13613 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
13614 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
13615 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13617 o Minor bugfixes (all versions of Tor):
13618 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
13619 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
13620 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
13622 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
13623 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
13624 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
13625 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
13626 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13628 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13629 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
13630 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
13631 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
13633 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13634 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
13635 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
13636 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13637 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
13638 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
13639 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13641 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
13642 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
13643 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
13644 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
13645 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13646 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
13647 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
13648 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
13650 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
13651 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
13652 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
13653 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
13654 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
13655 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
13656 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
13658 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
13659 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
13660 would call the Rust implementation of
13661 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
13662 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
13663 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
13664 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
13665 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13667 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
13668 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
13669 list, which would waste CPU cycles. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix
13672 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
13673 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
13674 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
13675 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
13676 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
13677 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
13679 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
13680 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
13681 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
13682 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
13683 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13685 o Code simplification and refactoring:
13686 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
13688 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
13689 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
13690 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
13693 o Documentation (man page):
13694 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
13695 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
13699 Changes in version 0.3.3.1-alpha - 2018-01-25
13700 Tor 0.3.3.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.3.x series. It adds
13701 several new features to Tor, including several improvements to
13702 bootstrapping, and support for an experimental "vanguards" feature to
13703 resist guard discovery attacks. This series also includes better
13704 support for applications that need to embed Tor or manage v3
13707 o Major features (embedding):
13708 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
13709 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
13710 Closes ticket 23684.
13711 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
13712 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
13713 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
13714 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
13715 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
13716 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
13718 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
13719 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
13720 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
13721 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements ticket 23826.
13722 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
13723 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts, they
13724 are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor clients
13725 on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor clients that
13726 have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements ticket 23828.
13727 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
13728 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
13731 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
13732 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
13733 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
13734 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
13735 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
13736 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
13737 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
13739 o Major features (onion services):
13740 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
13741 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
13742 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
13743 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
13744 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
13747 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
13748 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
13749 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
13750 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
13751 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
13752 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
13753 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
13754 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
13756 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
13757 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
13758 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
13759 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
13760 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
13762 o Major features (v3 onion services, ipv6):
13763 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
13764 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
13765 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
13766 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
13767 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
13768 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
13770 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
13771 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
13772 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
13773 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
13774 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
13775 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
13776 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
13777 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
13778 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
13779 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
13780 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
13782 o Major bugfixes (relays):
13783 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
13784 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
13785 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
13786 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
13787 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
13788 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13790 o Minor feature (IPv6):
13791 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
13792 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
13793 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
13794 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
13795 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors.
13796 Implements ticket 23827.
13798 o Minor features (cleanup):
13799 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
13800 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
13802 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13803 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
13804 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
13805 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
13806 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
13807 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
13808 once. Part of ticket 24337.
13809 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
13810 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
13811 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
13813 o Minor features (embedding):
13814 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
13815 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
13816 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
13817 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
13818 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
13819 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
13820 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
13821 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
13822 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
13823 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside
13824 a separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
13825 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
13826 Closes ticket 23848.
13827 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
13828 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
13829 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
13831 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13832 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
13833 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
13834 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
13835 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
13836 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
13837 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
13838 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
13841 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
13842 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
13843 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
13844 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
13845 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
13846 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
13847 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
13849 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
13850 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
13851 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
13852 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
13853 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
13854 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
13855 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
13856 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
13857 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
13858 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
13859 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
13860 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
13862 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
13863 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
13864 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
13866 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
13867 Implements ticket 24791.
13869 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
13870 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
13871 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
13872 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
13873 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
13874 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
13876 o Minor features (heartbeat):
13877 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
13878 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
13881 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
13882 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
13883 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
13884 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
13885 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
13887 o Minor features (log messages):
13888 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
13889 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
13890 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
13891 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
13893 o Minor features (logging, android):
13894 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
13897 o Minor features (performance):
13898 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
13899 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
13900 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
13901 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
13903 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
13904 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13905 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
13906 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
13907 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
13908 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
13909 Implements ticket 24374.
13911 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
13912 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
13913 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
13914 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
13915 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
13917 o Minor features (performance, windows):
13918 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
13919 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
13920 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
13923 o Major features (relay):
13924 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
13925 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
13926 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
13927 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
13928 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
13930 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
13931 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
13932 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
13933 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
13934 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
13935 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
13936 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
13937 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
13938 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
13940 o Minor bugfix (network IPv6 test):
13941 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
13942 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
13943 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13945 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
13946 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
13947 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
13948 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
13949 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
13950 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
13951 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
13952 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
13953 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
13954 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
13955 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
13956 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
13959 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
13960 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
13961 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
13962 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
13965 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
13966 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
13967 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
13970 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
13971 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
13972 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
13974 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
13975 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13976 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
13977 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
13978 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
13980 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
13981 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13982 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
13983 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
13985 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
13986 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
13987 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13988 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
13989 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
13990 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
13992 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13993 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
13994 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
13995 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13997 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13998 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
13999 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
14000 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
14001 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14002 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
14005 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
14006 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
14007 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
14008 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14010 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening):
14011 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
14012 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
14013 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14015 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
14016 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
14017 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
14018 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
14019 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
14020 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14021 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
14022 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
14023 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
14024 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
14025 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
14026 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
14028 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14029 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
14030 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14031 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
14032 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
14034 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14035 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
14037 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
14038 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
14039 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
14040 "aruna1234" and teor.
14041 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
14042 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
14043 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
14044 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
14046 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
14047 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
14048 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
14049 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
14050 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
14051 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
14052 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
14053 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
14054 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
14055 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
14057 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
14058 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
14061 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
14062 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
14064 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
14065 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
14066 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
14067 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
14068 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
14069 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
14072 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
14073 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
14074 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
14075 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
14076 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
14078 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
14079 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
14080 adding very little except for unit test.
14082 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
14083 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
14084 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
14085 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
14087 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
14088 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
14089 const. Implements ticket 24489.
14092 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
14093 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
14095 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
14096 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
14097 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
14098 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
14099 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
14100 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
14102 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
14103 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
14104 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
14105 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
14106 with the 0.2.9 series.
14108 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.2.8-rc. For a list of all
14109 changes since 0.3.1, see the ReleaseNotes file.
14111 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
14112 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
14113 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
14114 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
14115 information. Closes ticket 24801.
14116 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
14117 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
14118 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
14119 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
14121 o Minor features (geoip):
14122 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
14125 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
14126 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
14127 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
14128 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
14129 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
14132 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14133 - Resolve a few shadowed-variable warnings in the onion service
14134 code. Fixes bug 24634; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14136 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
14137 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
14138 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
14139 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
14143 Changes in version 0.3.2.8-rc - 2017-12-21
14144 Tor 0.3.2.8-rc fixes a pair of bugs in the KIST and KISTLite
14145 schedulers that had led servers under heavy load to overload their
14146 outgoing connections. All relay operators running earlier 0.3.2.x
14147 versions should upgrade. This version also includes a mitigation for
14148 over-full DESTROY queues leading to out-of-memory conditions: if it
14149 works, we will soon backport it to earlier release series.
14151 This is the second release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find
14152 no new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2 release
14153 will be nearly identical to this.
14155 o Major bugfixes (KIST, scheduler):
14156 - The KIST scheduler did not correctly account for data already
14157 enqueued in each connection's send socket buffer, particularly in
14158 cases when the TCP/IP congestion window was reduced between
14159 scheduler calls. This situation lead to excessive per-connection
14160 buffering in the kernel, and a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug
14161 24665; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14163 o Minor features (geoip):
14164 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14167 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
14168 - Bump hsdir_spread_store parameter from 3 to 4 in order to increase
14169 the probability of reaching a service for a client missing
14170 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 24425; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14172 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
14173 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
14174 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
14175 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
14176 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
14179 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
14180 - Use a sane write limit for KISTLite when writing onto a connection
14181 buffer instead of using INT_MAX and shoving as much as it can.
14182 Because the OOM handler cleans up circuit queues, we are better
14183 off at keeping them in that queue instead of the connection's
14184 buffer. Fixes bug 24671; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14187 Changes in version 0.3.2.7-rc - 2017-12-14
14188 Tor 0.3.2.7-rc fixes various bugs in earlier versions of Tor,
14189 including some that could affect reliability or correctness.
14191 This is the first release candidate in the 0.3.2 series. If we find no
14192 new bugs or regression here, then the first stable 0.3.2. release will
14193 be nearly identical to this.
14195 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
14196 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
14197 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
14198 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
14199 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
14200 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
14201 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
14203 o Minor features (logging):
14204 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
14207 o Minor features (portability):
14208 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
14209 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
14212 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
14213 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
14214 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
14215 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
14216 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14217 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
14218 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
14219 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
14220 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14221 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
14222 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
14223 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
14224 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
14226 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14227 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
14228 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
14230 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14231 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
14232 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
14233 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
14234 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
14235 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
14236 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
14239 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
14240 - Fix a race where an onion service would launch a new intro circuit
14241 after closing an old one, but fail to register it before freeing
14242 the previously closed circuit. This bug was making the service
14243 unable to find the established intro circuit and thus not upload
14244 its descriptor, thus making a service unavailable for up to 24
14245 hours. Fixes bug 23603; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14247 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler, KIST):
14248 - Properly set the scheduler state of an unopened channel in the
14249 KIST scheduler main loop. This prevents a harmless but annoying
14250 log warning. Fixes bug 24502; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
14251 - Avoid a possible integer overflow when computing the available
14252 space on the TCP buffer of a channel. This had no security
14253 implications; but could make KIST allow too many cells on a
14254 saturated connection. Fixes bug 24590; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14255 - Downgrade to "info" a harmless warning about the monotonic time
14256 moving backwards: This can happen on platform not supporting
14257 monotonic time. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14260 Changes in version 0.3.2.6-alpha - 2017-12-01
14261 This version of Tor is the latest in the 0.3.2 alpha series. It
14262 includes fixes for several important security issues. All Tor users
14263 should upgrade to this release, or to one of the other releases coming
14266 o Major bugfixes (security):
14267 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14268 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14269 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14270 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14271 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14272 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14273 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14274 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14275 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14276 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14278 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14279 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14280 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14281 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14282 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14283 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14284 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14287 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
14288 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14289 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14290 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14291 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14293 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
14294 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14295 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14296 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14297 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14298 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14299 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14300 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14301 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14303 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
14304 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
14305 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
14306 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
14308 o Minor features (directory authority):
14309 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14312 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14313 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
14314 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
14315 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14318 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
14319 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
14320 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
14321 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
14323 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14324 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14325 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14326 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14327 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14328 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14329 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14330 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14331 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14332 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14333 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14335 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14336 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14337 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14338 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14339 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14340 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14341 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14344 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14345 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14346 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14347 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14348 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14350 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14351 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14352 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14353 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14354 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14355 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14356 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14357 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14358 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14360 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14361 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14362 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14363 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14364 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14365 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14368 o Minor features (bridge):
14369 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14370 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14371 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14372 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14375 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14376 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14379 o Minor features (geoip):
14380 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14383 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14384 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14385 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14386 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14387 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14389 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14390 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14391 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14393 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14394 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14395 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14396 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14397 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14398 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14400 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
14401 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14402 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14405 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14406 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14407 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14408 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14409 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14412 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
14413 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14414 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14415 to another of the releases coming out today.
14417 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
14418 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
14419 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14421 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14422 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14423 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14424 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14425 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14426 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14427 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14428 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14429 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14430 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14431 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14433 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14434 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14435 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14436 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14437 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14438 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14439 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14442 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14443 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14444 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14445 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14446 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14448 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14449 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14450 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14451 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14452 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14453 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14454 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
14455 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
14456 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14458 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14459 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14460 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14461 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14462 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14463 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14466 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14467 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14468 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14469 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14470 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14471 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14473 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14474 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14475 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14476 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14477 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14480 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14481 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14484 o Minor features (geoip):
14485 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14488 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14489 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14490 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14491 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14492 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14494 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14495 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14496 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14498 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14499 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14500 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14501 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14502 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14503 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14505 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14506 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14507 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14508 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14509 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14511 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14512 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14513 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14516 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
14517 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14518 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14519 to another of the releases coming out today.
14521 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14522 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14523 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14524 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14525 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14526 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14529 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14530 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14531 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14532 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14533 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14534 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14535 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14536 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14537 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
14538 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
14539 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
14541 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14542 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14543 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14544 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14545 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14546 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14547 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14550 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14551 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14552 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14553 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14554 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14556 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14557 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14558 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14559 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14560 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14561 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14563 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14564 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14565 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14566 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14567 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14570 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14571 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14574 o Minor features (geoip):
14575 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14578 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14579 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
14580 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
14581 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
14582 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
14583 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
14585 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14586 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
14587 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
14588 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
14589 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14591 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
14592 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
14593 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14595 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
14596 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
14597 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
14598 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
14599 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
14600 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14602 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
14603 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14604 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14605 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14606 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14608 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14609 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14610 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14613 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
14614 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14615 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14616 to another of the releases coming out today.
14618 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
14619 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
14620 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14622 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14623 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14624 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14625 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14626 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14627 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14628 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14629 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14630 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14631 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14632 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14633 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14634 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14635 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14636 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14639 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14640 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
14641 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
14642 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
14643 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
14645 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14646 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
14647 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
14648 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
14649 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
14652 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14653 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14654 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14655 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14656 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14659 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14660 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
14663 o Minor features (geoip):
14664 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14667 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
14668 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14669 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14672 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
14673 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
14674 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
14675 to another of the releases coming out today.
14677 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
14678 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
14679 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
14681 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14682 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
14683 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
14684 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
14685 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
14686 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
14687 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
14688 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
14689 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
14690 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
14691 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
14692 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
14693 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
14694 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
14695 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
14698 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
14699 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
14700 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
14701 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
14702 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
14703 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
14705 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
14706 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
14707 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
14708 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
14709 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
14712 o Minor features (geoip):
14713 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14717 Changes in version 0.3.2.5-alpha - 2017-11-22
14718 Tor 0.3.2.5-alpha is the fifth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
14719 fixes several stability and reliability bugs, including a fix for
14720 intermittent bootstrapping failures that some people have been seeing
14721 since the 0.3.0.x series.
14723 Please test this alpha out -- many of these fixes will soon be
14724 backported to stable Tor versions if no additional bugs are found
14727 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
14728 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
14729 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
14730 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
14731 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
14732 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
14733 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
14734 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
14735 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
14736 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
14737 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
14740 o Minor features (directory authority):
14741 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
14742 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
14743 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
14744 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
14746 o Minor features (geoip):
14747 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14750 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14751 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
14752 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
14754 o Minor features (logging):
14755 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
14756 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
14758 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
14759 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
14761 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
14762 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
14763 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
14764 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14765 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
14766 - When detecting OpenSSL on Windows from our configure script, make
14767 sure to try linking with the ws2_32 library. Fixes bug 23783;
14768 bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
14770 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14771 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
14772 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
14775 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
14776 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
14777 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
14778 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14780 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
14781 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
14782 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
14783 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
14784 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
14785 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
14786 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
14787 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
14788 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
14791 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14792 - Only log once if we notice that KIST support is gone. Fixes bug
14793 24158; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14794 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
14795 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
14796 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
14797 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14799 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
14800 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
14801 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
14802 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
14803 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
14804 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
14806 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14807 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
14808 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
14809 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
14810 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
14811 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
14812 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
14814 - Silence a warning about failed v3 onion descriptor uploads that
14815 can happen naturally under certain edge cases. Fixes part of bug
14816 23662; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14818 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
14819 - Fix a memory leak in one of the bridge-distribution test cases.
14820 Fixes bug 24345; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
14821 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
14822 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
14823 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
14824 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
14825 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
14828 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
14829 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
14830 section. Closes ticket 24254.
14833 Changes in version 0.3.2.4-alpha - 2017-11-08
14834 Tor 0.3.2.4-alpha is the fourth alpha release in the 0.3.2.x series.
14835 It fixes several stability and reliability bugs, especially including
14836 a major reliability issue that has been plaguing fast exit relays in
14839 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
14840 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
14841 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
14842 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
14843 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
14844 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
14847 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, channel):
14848 - Stop processing scheduled channels if they closed while flushing
14849 cells. This can happen if the write on the connection fails
14850 leading to the channel being closed while in the scheduler loop.
14851 Fixes bug 23751; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14853 o Minor features (logging, scheduler):
14854 - Introduce a SCHED_BUG() function to log extra information about
14855 the scheduler state if we ever catch a bug in the scheduler.
14856 Closes ticket 23753.
14858 o Minor features (removed deprecations):
14859 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
14860 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
14861 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
14862 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
14864 o Minor features (testing):
14865 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
14866 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
14868 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
14869 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
14870 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
14871 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
14872 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14874 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, v3 single onion services):
14875 - Remove buggy code for IPv6-only v3 single onion services, and
14876 reject attempts to configure them. This release supports IPv4,
14877 dual-stack, and IPv6-only v3 onion services; and IPv4 and dual-
14878 stack v3 single onion services. Fixes bug 23820; bugfix
14881 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14882 - Give only a protocol warning when the ed25519 key is not
14883 consistent between the descriptor and microdescriptor of a relay.
14884 This can happen, for instance, if the relay has been flagged
14885 NoEdConsensus. Fixes bug 24025; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14887 o Minor bugfixes (manpage, onion service):
14888 - Document that the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option is
14889 0-10 for v2 services and 0-20 for v3 services. Fixes bug 24115;
14890 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14892 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14893 - Fix a minor memory leak at exit in the KIST scheduler. This bug
14894 should have no user-visible impact. Fixes bug 23774; bugfix
14896 - Fix a memory leak when decrypting a badly formatted v3 onion
14897 service descriptor. Fixes bug 24150; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14898 Found by OSS-Fuzz; this is OSS-Fuzz issue 3994.
14900 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14901 - Cache some needed onion service client information instead of
14902 constantly computing it over and over again. Fixes bug 23623;
14903 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14904 - Properly retry HSv3 descriptor fetches when missing required
14905 directory information. Fixes bug 23762; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14907 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
14908 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
14909 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
14910 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
14911 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
14912 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
14913 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14914 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
14915 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
14916 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
14917 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
14918 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
14920 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash):
14921 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
14922 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
14923 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
14924 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14926 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14927 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
14928 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14929 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
14930 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
14931 Closes ticket 24109.
14934 Changes in version 0.3.2.3-alpha - 2017-10-27
14935 Tor 0.3.2.3-alpha is the third release in the 0.3.2 series. It fixes
14936 numerous small bugs in earlier versions of 0.3.2.x, and adds a new
14937 directory authority, Bastet.
14939 o Directory authority changes:
14940 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
14941 Closes ticket 23910.
14942 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
14943 Closes ticket 23592.
14945 o Minor features (bridge):
14946 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
14947 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
14948 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
14949 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
14950 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
14951 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
14952 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
14954 o Minor features (client, entry guards):
14955 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
14956 Resolves ticket 23670.
14958 o Minor features (geoip):
14959 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14962 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
14963 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
14964 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
14965 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14967 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14968 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
14969 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14971 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
14972 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
14973 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
14974 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
14975 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
14976 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14978 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
14979 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
14980 only fetch the service descriptor once.
14981 - When a descriptor fetch fails with a non-recoverable error, close
14982 all pending SOCKS requests for that .onion. Fixes bug 23653;
14983 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14985 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14986 - Always regenerate missing hidden service public key files. Prior
14987 to this, if the public key was deleted from disk, it wouldn't get
14988 recreated. Fixes bug 23748; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha. Patch
14990 - Make sure that we have a usable ed25519 key when the intro point
14991 relay supports ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 24002;
14992 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
14994 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, v2):
14995 - When reloading configured hidden services, copy all information
14996 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
14997 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
14998 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
15000 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
15001 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
15002 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15004 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15005 - Avoid a BUG warning when receiving a dubious CREATE cell while an
15006 option transition is in progress. Fixes bug 23952; bugfix
15009 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15010 - Adjust the GitLab CI configuration to more closely match that of
15011 Travis CI. Fixes bug 23757; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
15012 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
15013 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15014 - When running unit tests as root, skip a test that would fail
15015 because it expects a permissions error. This affects some
15016 continuous integration setups. Fixes bug 23758; bugfix
15018 - Stop unconditionally mirroring the tor repository in GitLab CI.
15019 This prevented developers from enabling GitLab CI on master. Fixes
15020 bug 23755; bugfix on 0.3.2.2-alpha.
15021 - Fix the hidden service v3 descriptor decoding fuzzing to use the
15022 latest decoding API correctly. Fixes bug 21509; bugfix
15025 o Minor bugfixes (warnings):
15026 - When we get an HTTP request on a SOCKS port, tell the user about
15027 the new HTTPTunnelPort option. Previously, we would give a "Tor is
15028 not an HTTP Proxy" message, which stopped being true when
15029 HTTPTunnelPort was introduced. Fixes bug 23678; bugfix
15033 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
15034 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
15035 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
15037 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
15038 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
15039 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
15041 o Directory authority changes:
15042 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15043 Closes ticket 23910.
15044 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15045 Closes ticket 23592.
15047 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15048 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15049 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15050 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15051 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15053 o Minor features (geoip):
15054 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15057 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15058 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15059 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15060 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15061 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15062 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15063 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15064 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15065 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15067 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15068 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15069 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15070 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15071 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15072 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15073 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15074 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15075 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15078 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
15079 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
15080 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
15081 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
15083 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15084 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
15085 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
15087 o Directory authority changes:
15088 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15089 Closes ticket 23910.
15090 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15091 Closes ticket 23592.
15093 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15094 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15095 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15096 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15098 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15099 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15100 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15101 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15102 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15104 o Minor features (geoip):
15105 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15109 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
15110 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
15111 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
15112 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
15114 o Directory authority changes:
15115 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15116 Closes ticket 23910.
15117 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15118 Closes ticket 23592.
15120 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15121 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15122 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15123 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15125 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15126 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15127 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15128 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15129 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15131 o Minor features (geoip):
15132 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15135 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15136 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
15137 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
15138 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
15139 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
15140 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
15141 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15142 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15145 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15146 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15147 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15149 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15150 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15151 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15152 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15153 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15154 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15155 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15158 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
15159 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
15160 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
15161 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
15163 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
15164 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
15165 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
15167 o Directory authority changes:
15168 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15169 Closes ticket 23910.
15170 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15171 Closes ticket 23592.
15173 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15174 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15175 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15176 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15178 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15179 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15180 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15181 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15182 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15184 o Minor features (geoip):
15185 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15188 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15189 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
15190 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
15191 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
15192 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
15193 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
15194 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
15195 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
15198 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15199 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15200 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15201 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15203 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15204 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15205 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15207 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
15208 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
15209 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
15210 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
15211 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
15212 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
15213 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
15216 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
15217 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
15218 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
15219 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
15220 a new directory authority, Bastet.
15222 o Directory authority changes:
15223 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
15224 Closes ticket 23910.
15225 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
15226 Closes ticket 23592.
15228 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15229 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15230 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15231 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15233 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15234 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15235 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15236 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15237 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15239 o Minor features (geoip):
15240 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15243 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15244 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15245 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15246 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15248 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15249 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15250 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15253 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
15254 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
15255 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
15257 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15258 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15259 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15260 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15262 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
15263 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
15264 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15266 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
15267 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15268 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15272 Changes in version 0.3.2.2-alpha - 2017-09-29
15273 Tor 0.3.2.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.2 series. This
15274 release fixes several minor bugs in the new scheduler and next-
15275 generation onion services; both features were newly added in the 0.3.2
15276 series. Other fixes in this alpha include several fixes for non-fatal
15277 tracebacks which would appear in logs.
15279 With the aim to stabilise the 0.3.2 series by 15 December 2017, this
15280 alpha does not contain any substantial new features. Minor features
15281 include better testing and logging.
15283 The following comprises the complete list of changes included
15286 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
15287 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
15288 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
15289 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
15291 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
15292 - If a channel is put into the scheduler's pending list, then it
15293 starts closing, and then if the scheduler runs before it finishes
15294 closing, the scheduler will get stuck trying to flush its cells
15295 while the lower layers refuse to cooperate. Fix that race
15296 condition by giving the scheduler an escape method. Fixes bug
15297 23676; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15299 o Minor features (build, compilation):
15300 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
15301 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
15302 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
15303 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
15304 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
15305 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
15306 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
15307 Closes ticket 23643.
15309 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15310 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
15311 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
15312 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
15313 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
15315 o Minor features (hidden service, circuit, logging):
15316 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
15317 the circuit identifier(s).
15318 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
15319 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
15321 o Minor features (logging):
15322 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
15323 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
15324 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
15325 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
15326 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
15328 o Minor features (relay):
15329 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
15330 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
15331 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
15332 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
15334 o Minor features (robustness):
15335 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
15336 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
15338 o Minor features (spec conformance, bridge, diagnostic):
15339 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
15340 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
15341 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
15342 related to ticket 23080.
15344 o Minor features (testing):
15345 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
15346 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
15349 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
15350 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
15351 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
15353 - Avoid an assertion failure when logging a state file clock skew
15354 very early in bootstrapping. Fixes bug 23607; bugfix
15357 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
15358 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
15359 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
15360 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
15361 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
15362 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
15363 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
15364 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
15365 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15367 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
15368 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
15369 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
15372 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15373 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
15374 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
15375 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15377 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service v3):
15378 - Don't log an assertion failure when we can't find the right
15379 information to extend to an introduction point. In rare cases,
15380 this could happen, causing a warning, even though tor would
15381 recover gracefully. Fixes bug 23159; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15382 - Pad RENDEZVOUS cell up to the size of the legacy cell which is
15383 much bigger so the rendezvous point can't distinguish which hidden
15384 service protocol is being used. Fixes bug 23420; bugfix
15387 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay):
15388 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
15389 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
15390 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15392 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
15393 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
15394 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
15395 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
15396 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
15397 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15399 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
15400 - When switching schedulers due to a consensus change, we didn't
15401 give the new scheduler a chance to react to the consensus. Fix
15402 that. Fixes bug 23537; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15403 - Make the KISTSchedRunInterval option a non negative value. With
15404 this, the way to disable KIST through the consensus is to set it
15405 to 0. Fixes bug 23539; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15406 - Only notice log the selected scheduler when we switch scheduler
15407 types. Fixes bug 23552; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15408 - Avoid a compilation warning on macOS in scheduler_ev_add() caused
15409 by a different tv_usec data type. Fixes bug 23575; bugfix
15411 - Make a hard exit if tor is unable to pick a scheduler which can
15412 happen if the user specifies a scheduler type that is not
15413 supported and not other types in Schedulers. Fixes bug 23581;
15414 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15415 - Properly initialize the scheduler last run time counter so it is
15416 not 0 at the first tick. Fixes bug 23696; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15418 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15419 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
15420 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
15422 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
15423 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
15425 - The removal of some old scheduler options caused some tests to
15426 fail on BSD systems. Assume current behavior is correct and make
15427 the tests pass again. Fixes bug 23566; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15429 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15430 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
15431 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
15434 o Deprecated features:
15435 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
15436 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
15437 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
15440 - HiddenServiceVersion man page entry wasn't mentioning the now
15441 supported version 3. Fixes ticket 23580; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
15442 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
15443 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
15444 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
15445 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
15446 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
15447 Closes ticket 18736.
15450 Changes in version 0.3.2.1-alpha - 2017-09-18
15451 Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.2.x series. It
15452 includes support for our next-generation ("v3") onion service
15453 protocol, and adds a new circuit scheduler for more responsive
15454 forwarding decisions from relays. There are also numerous other small
15455 features and bugfixes here.
15457 Below are the changes since Tor 0.3.1.7.
15459 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
15460 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
15461 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
15462 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
15463 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
15464 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
15465 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
15466 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
15467 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
15468 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
15469 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
15470 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
15472 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
15473 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
15474 more information, see the design paper at
15475 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
15476 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
15477 Closes ticket 12541.
15479 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
15480 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
15481 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
15482 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
15483 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
15484 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
15487 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
15488 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
15490 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
15493 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
15496 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
15498 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
15500 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
15502 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
15503 they are 56 characters long, as in
15504 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
15506 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
15507 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
15508 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
15509 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
15510 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
15513 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
15514 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
15515 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
15516 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
15517 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
15518 options. We will publish a blog post about this new feature
15521 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
15522 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
15523 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
15524 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
15526 o Minor features (bug detection):
15527 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
15528 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
15529 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
15531 o Minor features (client):
15532 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
15533 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
15534 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
15535 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
15536 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
15537 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
15538 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
15539 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
15540 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
15541 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
15543 o Minor features (command line):
15544 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
15545 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
15546 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
15548 o Minor features (control port):
15549 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
15550 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
15551 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
15553 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
15554 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
15556 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
15557 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
15558 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
15559 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
15560 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
15561 Closes ticket 23237.
15562 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
15563 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
15565 o Minor features (development support):
15566 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
15567 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
15568 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
15569 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
15570 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
15571 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
15573 o Minor features (ed25519):
15574 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
15575 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
15576 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
15578 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
15579 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
15580 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
15582 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
15583 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
15584 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
15585 another program, regardless of the settings of
15586 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
15587 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
15588 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
15590 o Minor features (logging):
15591 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
15592 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
15593 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
15595 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
15596 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
15598 o Minor features (portability):
15599 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
15600 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
15601 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
15602 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
15604 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
15605 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
15606 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
15607 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
15608 results. Closes ticket 22731.
15610 o Minor features (startup, safety):
15611 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
15612 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
15615 o Minor features (static analysis):
15616 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
15617 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
15620 o Minor features (testing):
15621 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
15622 hidden service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
15623 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
15624 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 hidden
15625 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
15627 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
15628 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
15629 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
15630 Coverity as CID 1415728.
15632 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
15633 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
15634 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
15635 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
15636 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
15637 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
15638 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
15639 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15641 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15642 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
15643 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
15644 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
15645 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
15646 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
15647 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
15648 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
15650 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
15651 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
15652 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15654 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
15655 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
15656 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
15657 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15659 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
15660 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
15661 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
15662 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
15663 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
15664 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
15666 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
15667 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
15670 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
15671 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
15672 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
15673 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
15675 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
15676 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
15677 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
15678 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
15679 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
15680 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
15681 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
15684 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
15685 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
15686 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
15687 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15689 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, logging):
15690 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
15691 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15693 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
15694 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
15695 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
15696 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
15697 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
15698 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
15700 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
15701 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
15702 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
15704 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
15705 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
15706 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
15708 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
15709 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
15710 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
15711 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
15713 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15714 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
15715 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
15717 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15718 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
15719 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
15720 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
15721 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
15722 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
15723 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
15724 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15726 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
15727 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
15728 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
15729 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
15730 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
15731 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
15732 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15734 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
15735 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
15736 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
15737 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
15739 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15740 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
15741 function from the general code to handle channel state
15742 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
15743 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
15744 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
15745 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
15746 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
15747 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
15748 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
15749 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
15751 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
15752 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
15754 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
15755 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
15756 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
15757 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
15758 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
15759 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
15760 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
15761 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
15762 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
15763 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
15764 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
15765 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
15767 o Deprecated features:
15768 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
15769 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
15770 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
15774 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
15775 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
15776 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
15777 Closes ticket 15645.
15778 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
15779 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
15780 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
15781 file. Closes ticket 21148.
15783 o Removed features:
15784 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
15785 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
15786 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
15787 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
15788 Closes ticket 21031.
15789 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
15790 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
15793 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
15794 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15797 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15798 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15799 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15800 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15802 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
15803 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
15804 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
15805 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
15807 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15808 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15809 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15810 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15811 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15814 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15817 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15818 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15819 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15822 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15823 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15824 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15825 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15826 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15827 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15828 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15829 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15830 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15832 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15833 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15834 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15835 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15836 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15837 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15838 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15839 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15840 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15843 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
15844 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
15847 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15848 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15849 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15850 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15852 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15853 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
15854 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
15855 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
15856 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
15857 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
15858 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
15860 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15861 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
15862 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
15863 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15865 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
15866 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
15867 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15869 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15870 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
15871 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
15872 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
15874 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15875 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
15876 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
15877 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
15878 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
15880 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
15881 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15882 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15883 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15885 o Minor features (geoip):
15886 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15889 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15890 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
15891 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
15892 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
15894 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15895 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
15896 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15897 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
15898 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15899 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
15900 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
15901 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15903 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15904 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
15905 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15907 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15908 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
15909 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
15912 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15913 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15914 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15915 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
15916 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15918 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15919 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
15920 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
15921 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
15922 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
15923 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15925 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15926 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
15927 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
15928 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
15929 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
15930 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
15931 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
15932 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
15933 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
15935 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15936 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
15937 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
15938 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
15940 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15941 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
15942 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15944 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
15945 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
15946 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
15947 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
15948 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15950 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
15951 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15952 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15955 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
15956 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
15957 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
15958 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
15959 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15961 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
15962 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
15963 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
15964 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
15965 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
15966 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
15967 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
15968 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
15969 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
15972 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
15973 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
15976 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
15977 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
15978 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
15979 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
15981 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15982 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
15983 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
15984 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
15987 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15990 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15991 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
15992 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
15994 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
15995 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
15996 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
15997 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
15998 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16000 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16001 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
16002 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
16003 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16005 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
16006 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
16007 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
16009 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
16010 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
16011 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
16012 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
16015 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
16016 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
16018 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
16019 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
16020 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
16021 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
16022 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
16023 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
16024 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
16026 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
16027 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
16028 disabled. For more information, see
16029 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
16031 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
16032 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
16033 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
16034 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
16035 with the 0.2.9 series.
16037 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.6-rc. For a list of all
16038 changes since 0.3.0, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16040 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
16041 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
16042 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
16043 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This is also tracked as
16044 TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
16046 o Minor features (defensive programming):
16047 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
16048 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
16049 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
16052 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16053 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
16054 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
16055 attempt for bug 23105.
16057 o Minor features (geoip):
16058 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16061 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16062 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
16063 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16065 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16066 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
16067 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16068 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
16069 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16071 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16072 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
16073 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
16074 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16076 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16077 - Fix a channelpadding unit test failure on slow systems by using
16078 mocked time instead of actual time. Fixes bug 23077; bugfix
16082 Changes in version 0.3.1.6-rc - 2017-09-05
16083 Tor 0.3.1.6-rc fixes a few small bugs and annoyances in the 0.3.1
16084 release series, including a bug that produced weird behavior on
16085 Windows directory caches.
16087 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.1 series. If we
16088 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.1 release
16089 will be nearly identical to it.
16091 o Major bugfixes (windows, directory cache):
16092 - On Windows, do not try to delete cached consensus documents and
16093 diffs before they are unmapped from memory--Windows won't allow
16094 that. Instead, allow the consensus cache directory to grow larger,
16095 to hold files that might need to stay around longer. Fixes bug
16096 22752; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16098 o Minor features (directory authority):
16099 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
16100 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
16101 Closes ticket 22348.
16103 o Minor features (geoip):
16104 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 3 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16107 o Minor features (testing):
16108 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
16111 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
16112 - Fix a memory leak when recovering space in the consensus cache.
16113 Fixes bug 23139; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16115 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
16116 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
16117 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
16118 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
16119 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
16120 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
16121 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
16122 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
16123 - Rate-limit the log messages if we exceed the maximum number of
16124 allowed intro circuits. Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16126 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
16127 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
16128 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
16130 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
16131 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
16132 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
16133 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
16135 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16136 - When a relay is not running as a directory cache, it will no
16137 longer generate compressed consensuses and consensus diff
16138 information. Previously, this was a waste of disk and CPU. Fixes
16139 bug 23275; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16141 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
16142 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
16143 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
16144 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
16145 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
16146 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
16148 o Minor bugfixes (stability):
16149 - Avoid crashing on a double-free when unable to load or process an
16150 included file. Fixes bug 23155; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
16151 with the clang static analyzer.
16153 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16154 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
16155 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
16156 - Port the hs_ntor handshake test to work correctly with recent
16157 versions of the pysha3 module. Fixes bug 23071; bugfix
16160 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
16161 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
16162 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
16163 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
16164 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
16165 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16166 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
16169 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
16170 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
16171 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
16172 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
16174 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16175 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
16176 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
16177 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
16178 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
16179 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
16180 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
16181 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
16182 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
16184 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16185 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
16186 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16187 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
16189 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16190 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
16191 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
16192 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
16193 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
16195 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16196 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16199 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16200 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
16201 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
16202 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
16204 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16205 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
16206 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16207 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16208 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16209 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16210 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16211 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16214 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16215 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
16216 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
16219 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16220 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16221 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16222 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16223 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16224 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16226 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16227 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
16228 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
16229 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16231 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
16232 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16233 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16235 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
16236 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16237 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16240 Changes in version 0.3.1.5-alpha - 2017-08-01
16241 Tor 0.3.1.5-alpha improves the performance of consensus diff
16242 calculation, fixes a crash bug on older versions of OpenBSD, and fixes
16243 several other bugs. If no serious bugs are found in this version, the
16244 next version will be a release candidate.
16246 This release also marks the end of support for the Tor 0.2.4.x,
16247 0.2.6.x, and 0.2.7.x release series. Those releases will receive no
16248 further bug or security fixes. Anyone still running or distributing
16249 one of those versions should upgrade.
16251 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
16252 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
16253 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
16254 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
16255 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
16256 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
16257 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
16258 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
16259 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
16261 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
16262 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
16263 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
16264 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
16265 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
16267 o Major bugfixes (relay, performance):
16268 - Perform circuit handshake operations at a higher priority than we
16269 use for consensus diff creation and compression. This should
16270 prevent circuits from starving when a relay or bridge receives a
16271 new consensus, especially on lower-powered machines. Fixes bug
16272 22883; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16274 o Minor features (bridge authority):
16275 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
16276 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
16278 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
16279 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
16280 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
16281 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
16282 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
16285 o Minor features (geoip):
16286 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16289 o Minor features (relay, performance):
16290 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
16291 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
16292 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
16293 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
16294 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
16297 o Minor bugfixes (build system, rust):
16298 - Fix a problem where Rust toolchains were not being found when
16299 building without --enable-cargo-online-mode, due to setting the
16300 $HOME environment variable instead of $CARGO_HOME. Fixes bug
16301 22830; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fix by Chelsea Komlo.
16303 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, zstd):
16304 - Write zstd epilogues correctly when the epilogue requires
16305 reallocation of the output buffer, even with zstd 1.3.0.
16306 (Previously, we worked on 1.2.0 and failed with 1.3.0). Fixes bug
16307 22927; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16309 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
16310 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
16311 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16312 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
16313 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16314 - Compile correctly when both openssl 1.1.0 and libscrypt are
16315 detected. Previously this would cause an error. Fixes bug 22892;
16316 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16317 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
16318 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
16319 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
16322 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
16323 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
16324 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
16325 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
16326 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
16327 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16329 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16330 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
16331 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
16332 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
16333 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
16334 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
16335 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
16336 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
16339 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
16340 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
16341 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
16344 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
16345 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
16346 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
16347 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
16349 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16350 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
16351 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16353 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16354 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
16355 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
16356 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
16358 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16359 - test_consdiff_base64cmp would fail on OS X because while OS X
16360 follows the standard of (less than zero/zero/greater than zero),
16361 it doesn't follow the convention of (-1/0/+1). Make the test
16362 comply with the standard. Fixes bug 22870; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16363 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
16364 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16367 Changes in version 0.3.1.4-alpha - 2017-06-29
16368 Tor 0.3.1.4-alpha fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16369 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16370 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16371 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9
16374 This release also fixes several other bugs introduced in 0.3.0.x
16375 and 0.3.1.x, including others that can affect bandwidth usage
16378 o New dependencies:
16379 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
16380 pkg-config tool at build time. (This requirement was new in
16381 0.3.1.1-alpha, but was not noted at the time. Noting it here to
16382 close ticket 22623.)
16384 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
16385 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16386 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16387 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16388 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16389 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16391 o Major bugfixes (compression, zstd):
16392 - Correctly detect a full buffer when decompressing a large zstd-
16393 compressed input. Previously, we would sometimes treat a full
16394 buffer as an error. Fixes bug 22628; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16396 o Major bugfixes (directory protocol):
16397 - Ensure that we send "304 Not modified" as HTTP status code when a
16398 client is attempting to fetch a consensus or consensus diff, and
16399 the best one we can send them is one they already have. Fixes bug
16400 22702; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16402 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
16403 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16404 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16405 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16407 o Minor features (bug mitigation, diagnostics, logging):
16408 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
16409 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
16410 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
16412 o Minor features (geoip):
16413 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16416 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
16417 - When compressing or decompressing a buffer, check for a failure to
16418 create a compression object. Fixes bug 22626; bugfix
16420 - When decompressing a buffer, check for extra data after the end of
16421 the compressed data. Fixes bug 22629; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16422 - When decompressing an object received over an anonymous directory
16423 connection, if we have already decompressed it using an acceptable
16424 compression method, do not reject it for looking like an
16425 unacceptable compression method. Fixes part of bug 22670; bugfix
16427 - When serving directory votes compressed with zlib, do not claim to
16428 have compressed them with zstd. Fixes bug 22669; bugfix
16430 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
16431 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
16432 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
16433 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
16434 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
16436 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
16437 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
16438 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
16439 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
16440 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16441 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16442 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16443 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16444 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16445 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16446 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16447 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16449 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16450 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16451 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16452 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16453 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16454 - Fix a crash in the LZMA module, when the sandbox was enabled, and
16455 liblzma would allocate more than 16 MB of memory. We solve this by
16456 bumping the mprotect() limit in the sandbox module from 16 MB to
16457 20 MB. Fixes bug 22751; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16459 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16460 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
16461 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
16462 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
16463 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
16464 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
16465 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
16466 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
16467 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
16468 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
16469 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16470 - Demote a warn that was caused by libevent delays to info if
16471 netflow padding is less than 4.5 seconds late, or to notice
16472 if it is more (4.5 seconds is the amount of time that a netflow
16473 record might be emitted after, if we chose the maximum timeout).
16474 Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16476 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
16477 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
16478 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
16479 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
16480 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
16481 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
16482 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
16486 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
16488 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
16489 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
16491 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
16492 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
16493 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
16497 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
16498 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
16499 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
16500 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
16501 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
16504 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
16507 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16508 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
16509 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
16510 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
16511 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
16512 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
16514 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16515 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
16516 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
16517 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
16519 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16520 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
16521 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
16522 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16524 o Minor features (geoip):
16525 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16528 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16529 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
16530 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
16531 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
16532 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
16534 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16535 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
16536 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
16537 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
16538 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16540 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
16541 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
16542 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
16543 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
16544 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
16545 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
16546 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
16547 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
16548 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
16551 Changes in version 0.3.1.3-alpha - 2017-06-08
16552 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16553 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16554 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16555 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16557 Tor 0.3.1.3-alpha also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16558 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16559 bugfixes described below.
16561 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16562 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16563 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16564 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16565 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16566 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16567 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16570 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
16571 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16572 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16573 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16574 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16575 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16576 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16579 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
16580 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16581 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16582 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16583 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16584 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16585 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16586 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16587 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16588 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16589 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16590 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16591 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16594 o Major bugfixes (torrc, crash):
16595 - Fix a crash bug when using %include in torrc. Fixes bug 22417;
16596 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
16598 o Minor features (code style):
16599 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
16600 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
16601 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
16603 o Minor features (diagnostic):
16604 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
16605 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
16606 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
16607 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
16609 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16610 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16611 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16613 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
16614 - Check for libzstd >= 1.1, because older versions lack the
16615 necessary streaming API. Fixes bug 22413; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16617 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
16618 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16619 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16620 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16621 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16622 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16623 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16625 o Minor bugfixes (storage directories):
16626 - Always check for underflows in the cached storage directory usage.
16627 If the usage does underflow, re-calculate it. Also, avoid a
16628 separate underflow when the usage is not known. Fixes bug 22424;
16629 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16631 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
16632 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
16633 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
16637 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
16640 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
16641 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
16642 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16643 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16644 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
16646 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
16647 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16648 bugfixes described below.
16650 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16651 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16652 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
16653 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
16654 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16655 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16656 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16657 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16660 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16661 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16662 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16663 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16664 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16665 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16666 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16669 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16670 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
16671 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
16672 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
16673 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
16674 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
16675 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
16676 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16677 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
16678 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
16679 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
16680 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
16681 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
16684 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16685 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
16686 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
16689 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16690 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16691 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16692 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16693 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16695 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
16696 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
16697 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
16699 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16700 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16701 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16703 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16704 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
16705 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
16706 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
16707 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
16708 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
16709 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
16711 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
16713 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16714 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16715 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16718 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
16719 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16720 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16721 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16722 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16723 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16725 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
16726 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
16727 bugfixes described below.
16729 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
16730 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16731 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16732 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16733 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16736 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16737 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
16738 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
16739 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
16740 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
16741 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
16742 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
16745 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16746 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16747 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16748 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16749 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16751 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16752 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
16753 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
16754 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
16755 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
16756 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
16757 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
16759 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
16760 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
16761 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
16762 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
16763 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
16765 o Minor features (geoip):
16766 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16769 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
16770 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
16771 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
16772 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
16774 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16775 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16776 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16778 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
16779 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
16780 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
16781 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
16782 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
16785 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
16786 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
16787 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16788 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16789 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16791 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
16792 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16793 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16794 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16795 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16796 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16798 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16799 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16800 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16801 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16804 o Minor features (geoip):
16805 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16808 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
16809 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
16810 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
16811 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
16812 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
16814 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16815 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16816 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16818 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
16819 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16820 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16821 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16822 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16823 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16825 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16826 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16827 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16828 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16831 o Minor features (geoip):
16832 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16835 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16836 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16837 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16840 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
16841 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16842 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16843 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16844 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16845 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16847 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16848 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16849 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16850 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16853 o Minor features (geoip):
16854 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16857 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16858 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16859 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16861 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
16862 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16863 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16864 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16865 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16866 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16868 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16869 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16870 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16871 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16874 o Minor features (geoip):
16875 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16878 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16879 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16880 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16882 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
16883 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
16884 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
16885 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
16886 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
16887 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
16889 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
16890 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
16891 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
16892 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
16895 o Minor features (geoip):
16896 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
16899 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
16900 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
16901 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
16904 Changes in version 0.3.1.2-alpha - 2017-05-26
16905 Tor 0.3.1.2-alpha is the second release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16906 fixes a few bugs found while testing 0.3.1.1-alpha, including a
16907 memory corruption bug that affected relay stability.
16909 o Major bugfixes (crash, relay):
16910 - Fix a memory-corruption bug in relays that set MyFamily.
16911 Previously, they would double-free MyFamily elements when making
16912 the next descriptor or when changing their configuration. Fixes
16913 bug 22368; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
16915 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16916 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
16917 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
16920 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority):
16921 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
16922 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
16923 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16926 Changes in version 0.3.1.1-alpha - 2017-05-22
16927 Tor 0.3.1.1-alpha is the first release in the 0.3.1.x series. It
16928 reduces the bandwidth usage for Tor's directory protocol, adds some
16929 basic padding to resist netflow-based traffic analysis and to serve as
16930 the basis of other padding in the future, and adds rust support to the
16933 It also contains numerous other small features and improvements to
16934 security, correctness, and performance.
16936 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.7.
16938 o Major features (directory protocol):
16939 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
16940 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
16941 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
16942 now request these documents when available. When both client and
16943 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
16944 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
16945 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
16946 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
16947 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
16948 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
16949 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
16950 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
16951 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
16952 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
16953 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
16954 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
16955 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
16957 o Major features (experimental):
16958 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
16959 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
16960 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
16961 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
16962 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
16963 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
16964 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
16966 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
16967 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
16968 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
16969 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
16970 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
16971 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
16974 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
16975 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
16976 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
16977 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
16978 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
16979 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
16980 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
16981 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
16982 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
16983 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
16984 multiples of 10000.
16986 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
16987 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
16988 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
16989 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
16990 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
16991 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
16992 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
16993 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
16994 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
16995 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
16996 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
16997 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
16998 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
16999 Otherwise it is at info.
17001 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
17002 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
17003 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
17004 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17006 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
17007 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
17008 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17009 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
17011 o Minor features (security, windows):
17012 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
17013 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
17014 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
17015 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
17016 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
17018 o Minor features (config options):
17019 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
17020 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
17021 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
17022 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
17023 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
17024 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
17025 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
17026 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
17028 o Minor features (controller):
17029 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
17030 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
17032 o Minor features (defaults):
17033 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
17034 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
17035 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
17036 can. Closes ticket 21407.
17037 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
17038 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
17039 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
17040 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
17041 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
17042 Closes ticket 21641.
17044 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
17045 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
17046 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
17047 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
17048 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
17049 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
17050 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
17052 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
17053 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
17054 introduction points than specified in
17055 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
17056 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
17057 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
17058 21594; closes ticket 21622.
17059 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
17060 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
17061 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
17062 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
17064 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17065 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
17066 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
17067 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
17068 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
17069 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
17070 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
17071 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
17072 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
17073 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
17075 o Minor features (logging):
17076 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
17077 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
17078 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
17079 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
17082 o Minor features (performance):
17083 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
17084 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
17086 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
17087 speed some controller functions.
17089 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
17090 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
17091 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
17092 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
17094 o Minor features (safety):
17095 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
17096 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
17097 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
17100 o Minor features (testing):
17101 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
17102 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
17103 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
17104 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
17105 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
17106 on. Closes ticket 21439.
17107 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
17108 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
17109 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
17110 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
17111 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
17112 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
17113 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
17114 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
17115 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
17116 21507. Partially implements 21470.
17118 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
17119 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
17120 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
17121 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
17123 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17124 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
17125 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
17126 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
17129 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17130 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
17131 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17133 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
17134 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
17135 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
17136 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
17137 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
17138 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
17139 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17140 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
17141 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
17142 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
17143 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
17144 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
17145 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
17146 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
17148 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17149 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
17150 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17151 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
17152 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
17153 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
17154 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
17155 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17157 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
17158 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
17159 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
17160 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17161 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
17162 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
17163 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
17165 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
17166 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
17167 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
17168 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
17169 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
17171 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17172 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
17173 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17174 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
17175 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
17176 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17177 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
17178 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17179 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
17180 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
17181 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
17183 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17184 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
17185 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
17186 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17187 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
17188 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
17189 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17191 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
17192 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
17193 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17195 o Minor bugfixes (protocol, logging):
17196 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
17197 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
17198 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
17199 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
17201 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17202 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
17203 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
17204 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17205 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
17206 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
17207 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
17208 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
17209 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
17210 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
17212 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
17213 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
17214 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
17215 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
17216 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17218 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
17219 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
17220 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17222 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17223 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
17224 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
17225 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
17226 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
17227 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
17228 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
17229 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
17230 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
17231 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
17232 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
17233 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
17235 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
17236 Resolves ticket 22213.
17237 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
17238 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
17239 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
17240 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
17241 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
17242 types. Closes ticket 21651.
17243 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
17244 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
17247 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
17248 Closes ticket 21873.
17249 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
17250 Closes ticket 21151.
17251 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
17252 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
17254 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
17255 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17256 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
17257 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
17259 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
17260 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
17261 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
17262 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
17263 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
17264 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
17265 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
17266 default behavior is now unavailable.
17267 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
17268 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
17269 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
17270 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
17271 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
17272 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
17273 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
17275 o Removed features (tools):
17276 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
17277 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
17278 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
17279 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
17280 required. Closes ticket 21842.
17283 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
17284 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
17285 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
17286 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
17287 clients are not affected.
17289 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
17290 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
17291 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
17292 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
17293 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
17294 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17297 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17300 o Minor features (future-proofing):
17301 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
17302 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
17303 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
17304 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
17305 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
17306 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
17308 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17309 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
17310 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
17311 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
17312 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
17316 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
17317 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
17319 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
17320 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
17321 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
17322 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
17323 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
17324 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
17327 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
17328 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
17330 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
17331 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
17332 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
17333 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
17334 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
17336 Below are the changes since 0.3.0.5-rc. For a list of all changes
17337 since 0.2.9, see the ReleaseNotes file.
17339 o Minor features (geoip):
17340 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17343 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
17344 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
17345 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
17346 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17348 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
17349 - Fix a (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
17350 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
17351 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17354 Changes in version 0.3.0.5-rc - 2017-04-05
17355 Tor 0.3.0.5-rc fixes a few remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17356 0.3.0 release series.
17358 This is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series, and has
17359 much fewer changes than the first. If we find no new bugs or
17360 regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release will be nearly
17363 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
17364 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
17365 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
17366 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17368 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17369 - Fix a guard selection bug where Tor would refuse to bootstrap in
17370 some cases if the user swapped a bridge for another bridge in
17371 their configuration file. Fixes bug 21771; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17372 Reported by "torvlnt33r".
17374 o Minor features (geoip):
17375 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 7 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17378 o Minor bugfix (compilation):
17379 - Fix a warning when compiling hs_service.c. Previously, it had no
17380 exported symbols when compiled for libor.a, resulting in a
17381 compilation warning from clang. Fixes bug 21825; bugfix
17384 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17385 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
17386 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
17387 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17388 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
17389 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
17390 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
17391 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
17393 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
17394 - Fix a memory leak when using GETCONF on a port option. Fixes bug
17395 21682; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17397 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17398 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
17399 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
17402 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17403 - Run the entry_guard_parse_from_state_full() test with the time set
17404 to a specific date. (The guard state that this test was parsing
17405 contained guards that had expired since the test was first
17406 written.) Fixes bug 21799; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17409 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
17410 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
17411 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
17415 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
17416 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
17417 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
17418 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17419 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
17422 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17423 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
17424 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17426 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17427 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17428 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17429 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17430 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17431 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17432 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17434 o Minor features (geoip):
17435 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17439 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
17440 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17441 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
17442 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17445 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17446 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17447 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17449 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17450 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17452 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17453 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17454 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17456 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17457 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17458 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17461 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17462 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17463 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17464 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17465 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17466 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17467 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17468 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17469 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17471 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17472 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17473 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17474 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17475 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17476 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17477 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17478 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17479 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17480 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17481 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17482 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17483 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17485 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17486 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17487 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17488 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17489 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17491 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17492 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17493 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17495 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17496 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17497 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17498 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17499 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17500 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17501 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17504 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17505 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17506 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17507 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17508 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17509 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17510 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17512 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17513 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17514 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17515 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17518 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17519 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17520 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17521 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17523 o Minor features (geoip):
17524 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17528 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
17529 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17530 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
17531 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17534 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
17535 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17536 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17538 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17539 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17541 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17542 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17543 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17545 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17546 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17547 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17550 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17551 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17552 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17553 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17554 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17555 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17556 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17557 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17558 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17560 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17561 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17562 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17563 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17564 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17565 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17566 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17567 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17568 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17570 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17571 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17572 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17573 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17574 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17576 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17577 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17578 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17579 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17580 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17583 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17584 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17585 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17586 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17587 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17589 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17590 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17591 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17593 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17594 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17595 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17596 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17597 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17598 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17601 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17602 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17603 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17604 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17605 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17606 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17607 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17610 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17611 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17612 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17613 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17614 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17615 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17616 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17618 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17619 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17620 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17621 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17624 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17625 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17626 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17627 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17629 o Minor features (geoip):
17630 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17633 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17634 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17635 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17638 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
17639 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17640 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
17641 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17644 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
17645 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
17646 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17648 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17649 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17651 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17652 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17653 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17655 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17656 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17657 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17660 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17661 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17662 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17663 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17664 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17665 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17666 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17667 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17668 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17670 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17671 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17672 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17673 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17674 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17675 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17676 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17677 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17678 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17680 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17681 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
17682 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
17683 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
17684 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17686 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17687 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17688 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17689 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17690 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17693 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17694 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17695 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17696 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17697 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17699 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17700 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17701 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17703 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17704 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17705 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17706 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17707 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17708 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17711 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17712 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17713 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17714 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17715 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17716 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17717 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17720 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17721 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17722 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17723 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17724 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17725 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17726 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17728 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17729 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17730 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17731 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17734 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17735 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17736 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17737 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17739 o Minor features (geoip):
17740 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17743 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17744 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17745 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17747 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
17748 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17749 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17750 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17751 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17752 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17754 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17755 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17756 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17760 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
17761 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
17762 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
17763 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
17766 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
17767 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
17768 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
17770 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
17771 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
17773 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
17774 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
17775 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
17777 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17778 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
17779 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
17782 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
17783 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
17784 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
17785 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
17786 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17787 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17788 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
17789 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
17790 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
17792 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
17793 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
17794 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
17795 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
17796 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
17797 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
17798 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
17799 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
17800 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
17802 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
17803 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17804 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17805 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17806 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17809 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17810 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
17811 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
17812 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
17813 Reported by Guido Vranken.
17815 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17816 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
17817 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17819 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17820 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17821 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17822 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17823 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17824 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17827 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
17828 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
17829 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
17830 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
17831 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
17832 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
17833 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
17836 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
17837 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17838 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17839 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17840 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17841 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17842 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17844 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
17845 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
17846 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
17847 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
17850 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
17851 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
17852 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
17853 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
17855 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17856 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17857 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17858 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17860 o Minor features (geoip):
17861 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17864 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
17865 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17866 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17868 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17869 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17870 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17874 Changes in version 0.3.0.4-rc - 2017-03-01
17875 Tor 0.3.0.4-rc fixes some remaining bugs, large and small, in the
17876 0.3.0 release series, and introduces a few reliability features to
17877 keep them from coming back.
17879 This is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.3.0 series. If we
17880 find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.3.0 release
17881 will be nearly identical to it.
17883 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
17884 - When the same bridge is configured multiple times with the same
17885 identity, but at different address:port combinations, treat those
17886 bridge instances as separate guards. This fix restores the ability
17887 of clients to configure the same bridge with multiple pluggable
17888 transports. Fixes bug 21027; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17890 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory v3):
17891 - Stop crashing on a failed v3 hidden service descriptor lookup
17892 failure. Fixes bug 21471; bugfixes on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17894 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
17895 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
17896 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
17897 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
17898 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
17899 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
17900 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
17901 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
17902 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
17903 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
17904 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
17905 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
17906 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
17907 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
17908 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
17910 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
17911 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
17912 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
17914 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17915 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
17916 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
17918 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
17919 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
17920 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
17921 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
17922 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
17923 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
17924 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
17926 o Minor features (geoip):
17927 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
17930 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
17931 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
17932 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
17935 o Minor features (testing):
17936 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
17937 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
17938 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
17940 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
17941 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
17942 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
17944 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17945 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
17946 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
17947 - Remove a redundant check for the UseEntryGuards option from the
17948 options_transition_affects_guards() function. Fixes bug 21492;
17949 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17951 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
17952 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
17953 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
17954 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
17955 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
17956 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
17957 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
17960 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
17961 - Don't warn about a missing guard state on timeout-measurement
17962 circuits: they aren't supposed to be using guards. Fixes an
17963 instance of bug 21007; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17964 - Silence a BUG() warning when attempting to use a guard whose
17965 descriptor we don't know, and make this scenario less likely to
17966 happen. Fixes bug 21415; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17968 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17969 - Pass correct buffer length when encoding legacy ESTABLISH_INTRO
17970 cells. Previously, we were using sizeof() on a pointer, instead of
17971 the real destination buffer. Fortunately, that value was only used
17972 to double-check that there was enough room--which was already
17973 enforced elsewhere. Fixes bug 21553; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
17975 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17976 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
17977 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch
17979 - Rename "make fuzz" to "make test-fuzz-corpora", since it doesn't
17980 actually fuzz anything. Fixes bug 21447; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
17981 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
17982 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
17983 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
17986 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
17989 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
17990 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
17991 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
17992 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
17994 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
17995 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
17996 least January of 2020.
17998 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
17999 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
18000 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
18001 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
18004 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
18005 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
18006 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
18007 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
18008 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
18009 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
18010 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18012 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
18013 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
18014 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
18015 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
18016 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
18017 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
18018 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
18020 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
18021 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
18022 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
18024 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
18025 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
18026 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18028 o Minor features (geoip):
18029 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18032 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
18033 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
18034 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
18036 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
18037 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
18039 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
18040 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
18041 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
18043 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
18044 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
18045 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
18046 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18047 Patch by "junglefowl".
18050 Changes in version 0.3.0.3-alpha - 2017-02-03
18051 Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha fixes a few significant bugs introduced over the
18052 0.3.0.x development series, including some that could cause
18053 authorities to behave badly. There is also a fix for a longstanding
18054 bug that could prevent IPv6 exits from working. Tor 0.3.0.3-alpha also
18055 includes some smaller features and bugfixes.
18057 The Tor 0.3.0.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no additional
18058 features will be considered for inclusion in 0.3.0.x. We suspect that
18059 some bugs will probably remain, however, and we encourage people to
18062 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
18063 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
18064 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
18065 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
18067 - When deciding whether we have just found a router to be reachable,
18068 do not penalize it for not having performed an Ed25519 link
18069 handshake if it does not claim to support an Ed25519 handshake.
18070 Previously, we would treat such relays as non-running. Fixes bug
18071 21107; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18073 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
18074 - Stop trying to build circuits through entry guards for which we
18075 have no descriptor. Also, stop crashing in the case that we *do*
18076 accidentally try to build a circuit in such a state. Fixes bug
18077 21242; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18079 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
18080 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
18081 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
18082 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
18083 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
18084 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
18085 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18087 o Minor feature (client):
18088 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
18089 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
18091 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
18092 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
18093 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
18094 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
18096 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
18097 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
18098 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
18099 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
18100 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
18102 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
18103 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
18104 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
18105 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
18106 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
18107 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
18108 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
18109 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
18110 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
18111 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
18113 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
18114 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
18115 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
18117 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
18118 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
18120 o Minor features (relay):
18121 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
18122 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
18123 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
18124 Written by Michael Sonntag.
18126 o Minor bugfix (logging):
18127 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
18128 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
18129 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
18130 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
18133 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18134 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
18135 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
18136 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18138 o Minor bugfixes (client, entry guards):
18139 - Fix a bug warning (with backtrace) when we fail a channel that
18140 circuits to fallback directories on it. Fixes bug 21128; bugfix
18142 - Fix a spurious bug warning (with backtrace) when removing an
18143 expired entry guard. Fixes bug 21129; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18144 - Fix a bug of the new guard algorithm where tor could stall for up
18145 to 10 minutes before retrying a guard after a long period of no
18146 network. Fixes bug 21052; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18147 - Do not try to build circuits until we have descriptors for our
18148 primary entry guards. Related to fix for bug 21242.
18150 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
18151 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
18152 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
18153 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
18154 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
18155 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
18156 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
18159 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18160 - Restore the (deprecated) DROPGUARDS controller command. Fixes bug
18161 20824; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18163 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
18164 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
18165 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
18166 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
18167 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18168 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
18169 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
18170 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
18172 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
18173 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
18174 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18176 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18177 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
18178 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
18179 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
18181 - When mapping a file of length greater than SIZE_MAX, do not
18182 silently truncate its contents. This issue could occur on 32 bit
18183 systems with large file support and files which are larger than 4
18184 GB. Fixes bug 21134; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18186 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
18187 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
18188 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
18189 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
18190 Patch by "junglefowl".
18192 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
18193 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
18194 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
18198 Changes in version 0.3.0.2-alpha - 2017-01-23
18199 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
18200 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18201 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18202 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18203 version should upgrade.
18205 Tor 0.3.0.2-alpha also improves how exit relays and clients handle DNS
18206 time-to-live values, makes directory authorities enforce the 1-to-1
18207 mapping of relay RSA identity keys to ED25519 identity keys, fixes a
18208 client-side onion service reachability bug, does better at selecting
18209 the set of fallback directories, and more.
18211 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
18212 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18213 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option, like
18214 others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it on by
18215 default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug into a
18216 denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001); bugfix on
18219 o Major features (security):
18220 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
18221 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
18222 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
18223 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
18224 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
18225 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
18227 o Major features (directory authority, security):
18228 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
18229 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
18230 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
18232 o Major bugfixes (client, guard, crash):
18233 - In circuit_get_global_origin_list(), return the actual list of
18234 origin circuits. The previous version of this code returned the
18235 list of all the circuits, and could have caused strange bugs,
18236 including possible crashes. Fixes bug 21118; bugfix
18239 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
18240 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18241 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18242 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18243 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18244 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18245 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18246 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18247 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18248 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18249 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18251 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
18252 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
18253 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18255 o Minor features (controller):
18256 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
18257 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
18259 o Minor features (entry guards):
18260 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
18261 break regression tests.
18262 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
18263 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
18265 o Minor features (fallback directories):
18266 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
18268 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
18269 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
18270 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
18271 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
18272 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
18273 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
18274 Closes ticket 20539.
18275 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
18277 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
18278 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
18279 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
18280 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
18281 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
18283 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
18284 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
18285 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
18286 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
18287 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
18288 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
18289 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
18290 Closes ticket 20822.
18291 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
18292 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
18294 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
18295 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18298 o Minor features (next-gen onion service directories):
18299 - Remove the "EnableOnionServicesV3" consensus parameter that we
18300 introduced in 0.3.0.1-alpha: relays are now always willing to act
18301 as v3 onion service directories. Resolves ticket 19899.
18303 o Minor features (linting):
18304 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
18305 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
18307 o Minor features (logging):
18308 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
18309 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
18311 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
18312 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
18313 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
18314 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
18315 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
18316 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
18318 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
18319 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
18320 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
18321 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
18323 o Minor bugfixes (build):
18324 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
18325 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
18328 o Minor bugfixes (client, guards):
18329 - Fix bug where Tor would think that there are circuits waiting for
18330 better guards even though those circuits have been freed. Fixes
18331 bug 21142; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18333 o Minor bugfixes (config):
18334 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
18335 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
18336 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
18337 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18339 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18340 - Make the GETINFO interface for inquiring about entry guards
18341 support the new guards backend. Fixes bug 20823; bugfix
18344 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
18345 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
18346 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
18347 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
18348 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
18350 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
18351 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
18352 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
18354 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
18355 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
18356 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18357 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
18358 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
18359 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
18360 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18361 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
18362 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18364 o Minor bugfixes (guards, bootstrapping):
18365 - When connecting to a directory guard during bootstrap, do not mark
18366 the guard as successful until we receive a good-looking directory
18367 response from it. Fixes bug 20974; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18369 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
18370 - Fix the config reload pruning of old vs new services so it
18371 actually works when both ephemeral and non-ephemeral services are
18372 configured. Fixes bug 21054; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18373 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
18374 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18376 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
18377 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
18378 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18379 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
18380 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
18381 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
18382 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
18383 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
18385 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
18386 - Fix a memory leak when configuring hidden services. Fixes bug
18387 20987; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
18389 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
18390 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18391 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18392 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18394 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18395 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18397 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18398 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
18399 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
18400 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
18401 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
18403 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18404 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
18405 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18407 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18408 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
18409 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
18410 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
18411 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18413 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18414 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
18415 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
18417 o Documentation (formatting):
18418 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
18419 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
18421 o Documentation (man page):
18422 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
18423 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
18426 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
18427 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
18428 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
18429 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
18430 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
18431 version should upgrade.
18433 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
18434 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
18436 o Major bugfixes (security):
18437 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
18438 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
18439 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
18440 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
18441 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
18442 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18444 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
18445 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
18446 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
18447 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
18448 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
18449 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
18450 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
18451 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
18452 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
18453 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
18454 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18456 o Minor features (geoip):
18457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
18460 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18461 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
18462 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
18463 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
18465 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
18466 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18469 Changes in version 0.3.0.1-alpha - 2016-12-19
18470 Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.3.0 development
18471 series. It strengthens Tor's link and circuit handshakes by
18472 identifying relays by their Ed25519 keys, improves the algorithm that
18473 clients use to choose and maintain their list of guards, and includes
18474 additional backend support for the next-generation hidden service
18475 design. It also contains numerous other small features and
18476 improvements to security, correctness, and performance.
18478 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.8.
18480 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
18481 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
18482 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
18483 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
18484 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
18487 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
18488 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
18489 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
18490 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
18491 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
18492 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
18493 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
18494 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
18497 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
18498 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
18499 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
18500 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
18501 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
18503 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
18504 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
18505 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
18506 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
18507 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
18508 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
18509 15056; part of proposal 220.
18510 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
18511 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
18512 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
18513 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
18514 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
18516 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
18517 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
18518 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
18519 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
18520 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
18522 o Minor features (controller):
18523 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
18524 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
18527 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
18528 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
18529 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
18532 o Minor features (directory authority):
18533 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
18534 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
18535 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
18536 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
18537 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
18539 o Minor features (directory cache):
18540 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
18541 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
18544 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
18545 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
18546 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
18547 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
18549 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
18550 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
18551 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
18552 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
18554 o Minor features (infrastructure):
18555 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
18556 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
18558 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18559 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
18560 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
18561 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
18563 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
18564 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
18565 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18566 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
18567 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
18568 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
18570 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
18571 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
18572 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
18573 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
18574 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18576 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
18577 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
18578 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
18579 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
18580 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18582 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18583 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
18584 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
18585 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
18586 on all recent tor versions.
18587 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
18588 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
18589 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
18590 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
18592 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
18593 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
18594 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
18596 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18597 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
18598 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
18599 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
18602 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
18603 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
18604 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
18607 o Minor bugfixes (util):
18608 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
18609 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
18610 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
18611 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
18613 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
18614 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
18615 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
18616 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
18618 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18619 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
18620 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
18621 Closes ticket 19858.
18622 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
18623 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
18624 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
18625 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
18626 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
18627 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
18628 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
18629 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
18630 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18631 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
18632 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
18633 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
18634 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
18635 redundant with the similar structures used in the
18636 channel abstraction.
18637 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
18638 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
18639 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
18640 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
18641 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
18642 replaced with code automatically generated by the
18646 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
18647 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18648 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
18649 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
18651 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
18652 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix
18654 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
18655 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
18656 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
18657 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
18658 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
18661 o Removed features:
18662 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
18663 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
18664 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
18666 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
18667 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
18668 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
18671 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
18672 from "overcaffeinated".
18673 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
18674 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
18675 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
18676 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
18677 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
18681 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
18682 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
18683 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18684 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18685 become available for their systems.
18687 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
18690 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
18691 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
18693 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18694 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18695 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18696 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18697 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18698 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18699 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18700 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18701 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18703 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
18704 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18705 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18706 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18707 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18709 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
18710 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18714 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
18715 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
18717 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
18718 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
18719 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
18720 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
18721 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
18722 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
18723 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
18724 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
18726 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
18728 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
18729 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
18730 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
18731 become available for their systems.
18733 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.7-rc. For a list of all changes
18734 since 0.2.8, see the ReleaseNotes file.
18736 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security):
18737 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
18738 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
18739 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
18740 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
18741 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
18742 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
18743 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
18744 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
18746 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
18747 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
18748 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
18749 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
18750 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
18753 Changes in version 0.2.9.7-rc - 2016-12-12
18754 Tor 0.2.9.7-rc fixes a few small bugs remaining in Tor 0.2.9.6-rc,
18755 including a few that had prevented tests from passing on
18758 o Minor features (geoip):
18759 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18762 o Minor bugfix (build):
18763 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
18764 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
18765 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
18767 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18768 - When computing old Tor protocol line version in protover, we were
18769 looking at 0.2.7.5 twice instead of a specific case for
18770 0.2.9.1-alpha. Fixes bug 20810; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
18772 o Minor bugfixes (download scheduling):
18773 - Resolve a "bug" warning when considering a download schedule whose
18774 delay had approached INT_MAX. Fixes 20875; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18776 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18777 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
18778 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
18781 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
18782 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
18783 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18784 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
18785 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
18786 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
18788 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, use-after-free, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18789 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
18790 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
18791 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18793 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18794 - Use the correct spelling of MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_12 on configure.ac
18795 Fixes bug 20935; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18797 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18798 - Stop expecting NetBSD unit tests to report success for ipfw. Part
18799 of a fix for bug 19960; bugfix on 0.2.9.5-alpha.
18800 - Fix tolerances in unit tests for monotonic time comparisons
18801 between nanoseconds and microseconds. Previously, we accepted a 10
18802 us difference only, which is not realistic on every platform's
18803 clock_gettime(). Fixes bug 19974; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18804 - Remove a double-free in the single onion service unit test. Stop
18805 ignoring a return value. Make future changes less error-prone.
18806 Fixes bug 20864; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
18809 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
18810 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
18811 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
18812 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
18815 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18816 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
18817 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
18818 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
18819 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
18820 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
18823 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18824 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18825 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18828 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
18829 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
18830 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
18831 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
18833 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18834 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18835 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18836 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18839 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18840 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18841 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18842 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18845 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
18846 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18847 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18850 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18851 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18852 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18854 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
18855 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18856 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18858 o Minor features (geoip):
18859 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18862 Changes in version 0.2.9.6-rc - 2016-12-02
18863 Tor 0.2.9.6-rc fixes a few remaining bugs found in the previous alpha
18864 version. We hope that it will be ready to become stable soon, and we
18865 encourage everyone to test this release. If no showstopper bugs are
18866 found here, the next 0.2.9 release will be stable.
18868 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
18869 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
18870 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
18871 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
18872 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
18873 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18875 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
18876 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
18877 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
18879 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18880 - Stop ignoring the anonymity status of saved keys for hidden
18881 services and single onion services when first starting tor.
18882 Instead, refuse to start tor if any hidden service key has been
18883 used in a different hidden service anonymity mode. Fixes bug
18884 20638; bugfix on 17178 in 0.2.9.3-alpha; reported by ahf.
18886 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18887 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
18888 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
18890 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
18891 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
18893 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
18894 - Stop complaining about long-term one-hop circuits deliberately
18895 created by single onion services and Tor2web. These log messages
18896 are intended to diagnose issue 8387, which relates to circuits
18897 hanging around forever for no reason. Fixes bug 20613; bugfix on
18898 0.2.9.1-alpha. Reported by "pastly".
18900 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
18901 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
18902 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
18906 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
18907 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
18910 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-alpha - 2016-11-08
18911 Tor 0.2.9.5-alpha fixes numerous bugs discovered in the previous alpha
18912 version. We believe one or two probably remain, and we encourage
18913 everyone to test this release.
18915 o Major bugfixes (client performance):
18916 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
18917 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
18918 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18921 o Major bugfixes (client reliability):
18922 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
18923 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
18924 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
18927 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
18928 - When using an exponential backoff schedule, do not give up on
18929 downloading just because we have failed a bunch of times. Since
18930 each delay is longer than the last, retrying indefinitely won't
18931 hurt. Fixes bug 20536; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18932 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
18933 download, stop waiting for certificates.
18934 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
18935 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
18936 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
18938 - Remove the maximum delay on exponential-backoff scheduling. Since
18939 we now allow an infinite number of failures (see ticket 20536), we
18940 must now allow the time to grow longer on each failure. Fixes part
18941 of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18942 - Make our initial download delays closer to those from 0.2.8. Fixes
18943 another part of bug 20534; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18944 - When determining when to download a directory object, handle times
18945 after 2038 if the operating system supports them. (Someday this
18946 will be important!) Fixes bug 20587; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18947 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
18948 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
18949 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
18951 o Minor features (geoip):
18952 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
18955 o Minor bugfixes (client directory scheduling):
18956 - Treat "relay too busy to answer request" as a failed request and a
18957 reason to back off on our retry frequency. This is safe now that
18958 exponential backoffs retry indefinitely, and avoids a bug where we
18959 would reset our download schedule erroneously. Fixes bug 20593;
18960 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18962 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging):
18963 - Remove a BUG warning in circuit_pick_extend_handshake(). Instead,
18964 assume all nodes support EXTEND2. Use ntor whenever a key is
18965 available. Fixes bug 20472; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
18966 - On DNSPort, stop logging a BUG warning on a failed hostname
18967 lookup. Fixes bug 19869; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
18969 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18970 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
18971 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
18972 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix the work to fix 13942
18975 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18976 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
18977 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
18978 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
18979 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
18980 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18981 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
18982 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
18984 o Minor bugfixes (relay bootstrap):
18985 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
18986 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
18988 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18989 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
18990 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
18991 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
18992 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
18993 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
18994 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
18995 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18997 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
18998 - Start correctly when creating a single onion service in a
18999 directory that did not previously exist. Fixes bug 20484; bugfix
19002 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19003 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
19004 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19007 - Clarify that setting HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode requires you to
19008 also set "SOCKSPort 0". Fixes bug 20487; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
19009 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
19010 tickets 19287 and 19290.
19013 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
19014 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
19015 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
19016 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
19017 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
19020 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
19021 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
19022 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
19023 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
19024 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
19025 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
19026 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
19027 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
19028 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
19030 o Minor features (geoip):
19031 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19035 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
19036 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
19037 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
19038 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
19039 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
19042 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
19043 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
19044 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
19045 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
19046 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
19047 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
19048 be a release candidate.
19050 o Major features (security fixes):
19051 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
19052 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
19053 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
19054 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
19055 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
19056 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
19057 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
19058 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
19060 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
19061 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
19062 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
19063 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
19064 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
19065 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
19066 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
19067 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
19068 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
19069 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
19070 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
19071 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
19072 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
19073 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
19076 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19077 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
19078 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19080 o Minor features (client, directory):
19081 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
19082 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
19083 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
19086 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
19087 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
19090 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
19091 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
19092 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
19095 o Minor features (geoip):
19096 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19099 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
19100 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
19101 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
19102 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
19103 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
19105 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
19106 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
19107 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
19108 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
19111 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
19112 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
19113 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
19114 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
19115 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
19117 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
19118 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
19119 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
19122 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
19123 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
19124 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
19125 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
19127 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
19128 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
19129 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
19130 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
19132 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
19133 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
19134 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
19135 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
19138 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19139 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
19140 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
19144 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
19145 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
19147 o Required libraries:
19148 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
19149 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
19150 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
19153 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
19154 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
19155 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
19156 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
19157 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
19158 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
19159 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
19160 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
19162 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
19163 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
19164 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
19165 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
19166 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
19167 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19169 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
19170 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
19171 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
19172 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
19173 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
19176 o Major features (circuit building, security):
19177 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
19178 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
19179 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
19181 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
19182 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
19184 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
19185 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
19186 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
19187 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
19188 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
19189 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
19190 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
19191 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
19192 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
19193 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
19194 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
19196 o Major features (resource management):
19197 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
19198 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
19199 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
19200 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
19201 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
19202 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
19204 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
19205 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
19206 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
19207 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
19209 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
19210 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
19211 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
19212 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19214 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
19215 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
19216 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
19217 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
19218 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
19219 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19221 o Minor features (security, TLS):
19222 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
19223 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
19224 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
19225 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
19227 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19228 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19229 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19230 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19232 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
19233 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19236 o Minor feature (port flags):
19237 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
19238 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
19239 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
19240 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
19241 18693; patch by "teor".
19243 o Minor features (directory authority):
19244 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
19245 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
19246 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
19248 o Minor features (testing):
19249 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
19250 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
19251 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
19252 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
19254 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
19255 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
19256 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
19257 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
19258 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
19259 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
19260 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
19261 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
19262 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
19264 o Minor features (Tor2web):
19265 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
19266 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
19267 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
19269 o Minor features (unit tests):
19270 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
19271 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
19272 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
19273 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
19274 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
19275 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
19276 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
19277 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
19279 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
19280 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
19281 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
19282 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
19283 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
19284 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
19285 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
19286 assertion as a test failure.
19288 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
19289 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
19290 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
19291 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
19292 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
19293 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
19295 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
19296 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
19297 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
19298 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
19299 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
19300 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
19301 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
19302 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
19303 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
19304 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
19305 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19306 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19307 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
19308 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
19309 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
19310 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19312 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19313 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
19314 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
19315 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
19316 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19317 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
19318 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
19321 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19322 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
19323 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
19324 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
19325 in 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
19326 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
19327 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
19330 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
19331 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
19332 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
19333 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
19335 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
19336 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
19337 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
19339 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19340 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
19341 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
19342 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
19343 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
19344 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19346 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19347 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
19348 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
19349 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
19351 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
19352 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
19353 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
19355 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
19356 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
19357 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
19358 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
19359 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
19360 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
19362 o Minor bugfixes (options):
19363 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
19364 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
19366 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
19367 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
19368 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19371 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
19372 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
19373 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
19374 19678. Patch by teor.
19376 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
19377 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
19378 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
19379 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
19380 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
19381 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
19383 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
19384 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
19388 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
19389 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
19390 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
19391 who select public relays as their bridges.
19393 o Major bugfixes (crash):
19394 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
19395 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
19396 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
19397 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
19398 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19400 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
19401 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
19402 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
19403 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
19404 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
19407 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
19408 - Remove 8 fallbacks that are no longer suitable, leaving 81 of the
19409 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March
19410 2016. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
19412 o Minor features (geoip):
19413 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19417 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
19418 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
19419 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
19420 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
19421 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19422 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
19424 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
19425 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19426 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19428 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
19429 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19430 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19431 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19432 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19433 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19435 o Major features (user interface):
19436 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
19437 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
19438 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
19440 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
19441 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
19442 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
19443 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
19445 o Minor features (config):
19446 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
19447 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
19449 o Minor features (geoip):
19450 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19453 o Minor features (user interface):
19454 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
19455 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
19458 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
19459 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
19460 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19462 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19463 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
19464 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
19466 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
19467 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
19468 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
19469 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
19471 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
19472 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19473 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19476 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
19477 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19478 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19479 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19481 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19482 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
19483 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19485 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
19486 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
19487 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19489 o Deprecated features:
19490 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
19491 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
19492 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
19493 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
19494 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
19495 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
19496 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
19497 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
19498 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
19499 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
19500 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19501 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
19502 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
19503 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
19504 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
19505 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
19506 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
19507 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
19508 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
19509 and TransListenAddress.
19512 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
19513 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
19516 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
19517 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
19520 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
19521 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
19522 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
19523 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
19524 encouraged to upgrade.
19526 o Directory authority changes:
19527 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
19528 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
19530 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
19531 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
19532 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
19533 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
19534 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
19535 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19537 o Minor features (geoip):
19538 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19541 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19542 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
19543 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
19546 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19547 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
19548 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
19549 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
19552 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
19553 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
19554 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
19555 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
19556 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
19557 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
19558 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
19559 security, correctness, and performance.
19561 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
19563 o New system requirements:
19564 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
19565 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
19566 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
19567 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
19568 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
19569 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
19570 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
19571 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
19573 o Major features (build, hardening):
19574 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
19575 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
19576 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
19577 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
19578 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
19579 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
19580 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
19581 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
19582 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
19584 o Major features (compilation):
19585 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
19586 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
19587 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
19588 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
19590 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
19591 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
19592 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
19594 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
19595 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
19596 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
19597 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
19598 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
19599 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
19600 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
19601 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
19603 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
19604 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
19605 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
19606 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
19607 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
19608 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
19609 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
19611 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
19612 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
19613 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
19614 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
19615 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
19616 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
19617 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
19619 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
19620 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
19621 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
19622 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
19623 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
19625 o Minor features (build, hardening):
19626 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
19627 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
19628 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
19629 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
19630 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
19631 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
19632 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
19633 Closes ticket 18895.
19635 o Minor features (code safety):
19636 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
19637 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
19640 o Minor features (controller):
19641 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
19642 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
19643 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
19644 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
19645 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
19646 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
19647 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
19648 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
19650 o Minor features (directory authority):
19651 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
19652 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
19653 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
19654 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
19655 Implements ticket 18624.
19656 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
19657 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
19658 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
19661 o Minor features (hidden service):
19662 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
19663 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
19664 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
19667 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
19668 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
19669 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
19670 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
19671 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
19672 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
19673 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
19674 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
19675 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
19676 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
19677 Closes ticket 18365.
19679 o Minor features (logging):
19680 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
19681 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19682 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
19683 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
19684 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
19685 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
19686 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
19687 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
19688 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
19689 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
19691 o Minor features (performance):
19692 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
19693 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
19694 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
19695 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
19696 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
19697 Closes ticket 18815.
19699 o Minor features (relay, usability):
19700 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
19701 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
19702 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
19703 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
19706 o Minor features (testing):
19707 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
19708 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19709 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
19710 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
19711 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
19712 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
19713 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
19714 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
19717 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
19718 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
19719 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
19720 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
19721 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19723 o Minor bugfixes (build):
19724 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
19725 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
19726 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
19727 patch from "cypherpunks".
19729 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
19730 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
19731 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19733 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19734 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
19735 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
19736 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19738 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19739 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
19740 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
19741 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
19742 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
19743 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
19744 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
19745 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
19747 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
19748 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
19749 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
19750 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
19751 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
19752 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
19753 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
19755 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
19756 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
19757 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
19760 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
19761 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
19762 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
19764 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
19765 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
19766 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
19769 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
19770 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
19771 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
19772 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
19775 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19776 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
19777 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
19779 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
19780 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
19781 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
19784 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19785 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
19786 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19787 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
19788 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
19789 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
19790 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
19791 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
19792 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
19795 o Minor bugfixes (time):
19796 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
19797 bugfix on all released tor versions.
19798 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
19799 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
19800 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
19801 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
19803 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19804 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
19805 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
19806 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
19807 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
19809 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
19810 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19812 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19813 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
19815 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
19816 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
19817 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
19818 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
19821 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
19822 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
19824 o Removed features:
19825 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
19826 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
19827 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
19828 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
19829 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
19830 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
19831 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
19834 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
19835 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
19836 command-line options to enable them.
19837 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
19838 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
19841 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
19843 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19845 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
19846 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
19847 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
19848 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
19849 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
19850 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
19852 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
19854 o Minor features (geoip):
19855 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19858 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19859 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
19860 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
19862 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
19863 - Remove 1 fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out,
19864 leaving 89 of the 100 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
19865 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes ticket 19782; patch by teor.
19867 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19868 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
19869 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
19870 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
19871 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
19872 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
19873 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
19874 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
19877 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
19878 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
19879 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
19880 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
19881 against previous versions.
19883 o Directory authority changes:
19884 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
19886 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
19887 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
19888 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
19889 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
19891 o Minor features (build):
19892 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19893 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
19894 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
19895 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
19896 Patch from intrigeri.
19898 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
19899 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
19900 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
19903 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
19904 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
19905 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
19906 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
19907 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
19910 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19911 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
19912 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
19913 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19914 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
19915 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
19916 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
19918 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
19919 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
19920 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
19921 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
19923 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
19924 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
19925 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
19926 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
19927 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
19928 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
19930 o Fallback directory list:
19931 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
19932 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
19933 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
19934 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
19935 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
19936 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
19937 - Remove 10 unsuitable fallbacks, leaving 90 of the 100 fallbacks
19938 originally introduced in Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha in March 2016. Closes
19939 ticket 19071; patch by teor.
19942 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
19943 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
19944 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
19945 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
19948 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
19949 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
19950 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
19951 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19953 o Minor features (build):
19954 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
19955 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
19957 o Minor features (geoip):
19958 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
19961 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19962 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
19963 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
19965 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
19966 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
19967 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
19968 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
19972 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
19973 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
19974 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
19975 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
19976 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
19979 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
19980 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
19981 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
19982 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
19983 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
19985 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
19986 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
19987 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
19988 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
19989 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
19990 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
19992 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19993 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
19994 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
19995 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
19997 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
19998 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
19999 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
20000 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
20001 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
20002 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
20003 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
20005 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
20006 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
20008 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
20009 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
20010 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
20012 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
20013 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
20014 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
20015 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
20016 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
20017 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20020 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
20021 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
20022 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
20025 o Major bugfixes (key management):
20026 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
20027 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
20028 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
20029 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
20030 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
20031 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
20034 o Major bugfixes (testing):
20035 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
20036 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20037 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
20038 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20040 o Minor features (clients):
20041 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
20042 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
20043 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
20045 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
20046 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
20047 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
20048 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
20049 to the whitelist; and many other minor simplifications and fixes.
20050 Closes tasks 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug 18812 on
20051 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
20052 - Replace the 21 fallbacks generated in January 2016 and included in
20053 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha, with a list of 100 fallbacks generated in March
20054 2016. Closes task 17158; patch by "teor".
20056 o Minor features (geoip):
20057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20060 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
20061 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
20062 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
20065 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
20066 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
20067 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20069 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20070 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
20071 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
20073 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
20074 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
20076 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
20077 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
20080 o Minor bugfixes (client):
20081 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
20082 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
20083 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
20084 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20085 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
20086 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
20087 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20089 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
20090 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
20091 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
20092 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
20093 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20095 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
20096 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
20097 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
20098 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20099 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
20100 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
20103 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
20104 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
20105 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
20106 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
20107 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
20108 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20110 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20111 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
20112 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
20113 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20114 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
20115 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20116 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
20117 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
20119 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20120 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
20121 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
20122 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
20124 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
20125 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
20126 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
20127 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
20128 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
20129 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
20132 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20133 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
20134 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
20136 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
20137 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
20138 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20140 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
20141 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
20142 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
20144 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20145 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
20146 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
20147 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
20148 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
20149 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
20150 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
20152 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
20153 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
20154 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
20155 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
20158 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
20159 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
20160 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
20161 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
20164 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
20165 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
20166 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
20167 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
20168 directory support should also be much improved.
20170 o New system requirements:
20171 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
20172 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
20173 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
20174 longer runs with, these versions.
20175 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
20176 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
20177 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
20179 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
20180 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
20181 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
20182 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
20183 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
20185 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
20186 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
20187 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
20188 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
20189 Reported by Guido Vranken.
20191 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
20192 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
20193 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
20194 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
20195 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
20197 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
20198 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
20199 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
20200 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20202 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
20203 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
20204 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20205 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
20206 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20208 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
20209 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
20210 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
20211 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
20212 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
20213 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20216 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
20217 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
20218 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20220 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
20221 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
20222 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
20223 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
20226 o Major bugfixes (voting):
20227 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
20228 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
20229 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
20230 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
20232 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
20233 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
20234 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
20235 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20236 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
20237 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
20238 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
20239 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
20240 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
20241 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20243 o Minor features (security, win32):
20244 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
20245 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
20248 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
20249 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
20250 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
20251 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
20253 o Minor features (build):
20254 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
20255 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
20256 Steven Chamberlain.
20258 o Minor features (code hardening):
20259 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
20260 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
20261 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
20264 o Minor features (crypto):
20265 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
20266 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
20269 o Minor features (geoip):
20270 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20273 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
20274 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
20275 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
20276 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
20277 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
20279 o Minor features (IPv6):
20280 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
20281 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
20282 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
20283 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
20284 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
20285 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
20286 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
20288 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20289 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
20290 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
20291 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
20292 while fixing 18548.
20294 o Minor features (robustness):
20295 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
20296 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
20297 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
20299 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
20300 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
20301 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
20302 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
20303 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
20304 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
20305 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
20308 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
20309 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
20310 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
20311 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
20312 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
20314 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
20315 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
20316 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
20317 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
20319 o Minor bugfixes (build):
20320 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
20321 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
20323 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
20324 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
20325 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
20326 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
20327 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
20328 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
20330 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
20331 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
20332 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
20333 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
20334 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20336 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20337 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
20338 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
20339 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
20342 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
20343 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
20344 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20346 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
20347 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
20348 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
20349 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20351 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20352 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
20353 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
20354 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
20355 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
20356 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20358 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
20359 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
20360 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
20361 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
20363 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
20364 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
20365 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
20366 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
20367 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
20369 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
20370 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
20371 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
20372 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
20373 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
20374 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
20375 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
20376 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
20377 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
20380 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
20381 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
20382 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
20383 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20385 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
20386 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
20387 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
20389 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20390 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
20391 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
20392 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20393 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
20394 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
20395 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20396 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
20397 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
20399 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20400 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
20401 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
20402 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
20403 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
20404 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
20405 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
20406 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
20407 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
20408 Christian, patch by teor.
20410 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
20411 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
20412 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
20413 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
20415 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
20416 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
20417 patch by "cypherpunks".
20418 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
20420 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
20421 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20423 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
20424 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
20425 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
20426 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
20428 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
20429 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
20430 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
20433 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20434 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
20435 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
20436 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
20437 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
20438 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
20440 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
20441 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
20442 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
20443 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
20445 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
20446 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
20447 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
20448 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
20450 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20451 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
20452 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
20453 17744. Patch from zerosion.
20454 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
20455 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
20456 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
20457 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
20458 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
20461 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
20462 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
20463 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
20465 o Removed features:
20466 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
20467 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
20468 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
20471 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
20473 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
20474 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
20477 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
20478 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
20479 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
20480 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
20481 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
20483 o Major features (security, Linux):
20484 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
20485 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
20486 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
20487 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
20488 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
20490 o Major features (directory system):
20491 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
20492 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
20493 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
20494 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
20495 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
20496 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
20497 "mikeperry" and "teor".
20498 - Include a trial list of 21 default fallback directories, generated
20499 in January 2016, based on an opt-in survey of suitable relays.
20500 Doing this should make clients bootstrap more quickly and reliably,
20501 and reduce the load on the directory authorities. Closes ticket
20502 15775. Patch by "teor".
20503 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
20504 "gsathya", and "karsten".
20505 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
20506 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
20507 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
20508 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
20509 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
20512 o Major key updates:
20513 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
20514 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
20517 o Minor features (security, clock):
20518 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
20519 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
20520 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
20521 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
20523 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
20524 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
20525 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
20526 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
20527 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
20528 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20530 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
20531 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
20532 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
20533 Implements ticket 17026.
20534 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
20535 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
20536 Implements feature 17986.
20537 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
20538 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
20539 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
20540 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
20541 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
20542 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
20545 o Minor features (security, RNG):
20546 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
20547 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
20548 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
20549 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
20550 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
20551 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
20552 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
20553 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
20554 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
20555 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
20558 o Minor features (accounting):
20559 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
20560 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
20561 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
20562 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
20564 o Minor features (build):
20565 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
20566 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
20567 patch from "cypherpunks."
20568 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
20569 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
20570 17549, 17921, and 17984.
20572 o Minor features (controller):
20573 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
20574 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
20575 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
20576 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
20577 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
20578 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
20579 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
20580 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
20583 o Minor features (crypto):
20584 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
20586 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
20587 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
20588 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
20589 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
20590 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
20591 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
20592 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
20593 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
20595 o Minor features (directory downloads):
20596 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
20597 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
20598 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
20599 17864; patch by "teor".
20600 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
20601 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
20602 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
20604 o Minor features (geoip):
20605 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
20608 o Minor features (IPv6):
20609 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
20610 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
20611 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
20612 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
20613 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
20614 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
20615 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
20616 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
20617 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
20618 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
20619 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
20621 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
20622 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20623 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
20624 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
20626 o Minor features (logging):
20627 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
20628 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
20629 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
20630 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
20633 o Minor features (portability):
20634 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
20635 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
20637 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
20638 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
20639 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
20640 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
20641 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
20643 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
20644 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
20645 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
20646 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
20647 Resolves ticket 17951.
20649 o Minor features (replay cache):
20650 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
20651 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
20653 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
20654 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
20655 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
20656 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
20657 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20658 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
20659 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
20660 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
20661 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
20662 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
20663 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20664 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
20665 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
20666 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
20668 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
20669 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
20670 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
20671 from "unixninja92".
20673 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
20674 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
20675 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
20676 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20677 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
20678 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
20680 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
20683 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20684 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
20685 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
20686 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
20687 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
20688 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
20689 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
20690 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
20692 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20693 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20694 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
20695 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
20696 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
20697 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
20698 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20699 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
20701 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
20702 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
20704 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
20705 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
20706 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20708 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
20709 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
20710 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
20711 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20713 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
20714 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
20715 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20717 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
20718 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
20719 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20721 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
20722 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
20723 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
20724 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
20725 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
20727 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
20728 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20730 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20731 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
20732 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
20735 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
20736 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
20737 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
20738 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
20739 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
20740 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
20742 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
20743 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
20744 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
20745 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
20746 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
20748 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
20749 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
20750 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
20753 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
20754 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
20755 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
20756 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20757 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
20758 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
20759 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
20760 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
20763 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20764 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
20765 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
20766 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
20767 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
20768 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
20769 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
20770 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
20771 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20772 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
20774 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
20775 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
20777 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20778 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
20779 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
20780 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
20781 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
20782 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
20783 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
20784 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
20785 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
20786 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
20788 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
20789 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
20790 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
20791 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
20793 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
20794 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
20795 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
20796 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
20797 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
20799 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
20800 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
20803 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
20804 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
20805 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
20806 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
20807 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
20808 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
20809 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
20812 o Removed features:
20813 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
20814 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
20815 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
20816 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
20817 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
20820 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
20821 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
20822 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
20823 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
20824 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
20825 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
20826 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
20827 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
20828 portion of ticket 16831.
20829 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
20830 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
20831 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
20833 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
20834 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
20837 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
20838 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
20839 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
20841 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
20842 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
20843 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
20844 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
20845 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
20846 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
20849 o Minor features (geoip):
20850 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20853 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20854 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
20855 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
20856 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
20857 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
20858 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
20860 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
20861 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
20862 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
20863 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
20864 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
20865 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
20866 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
20867 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20868 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
20869 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20872 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
20873 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
20874 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
20875 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
20876 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
20877 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
20878 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
20879 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
20880 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
20881 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
20882 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
20883 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
20884 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
20885 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
20886 that would make him proud.
20888 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
20890 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
20891 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
20892 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
20893 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
20894 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
20895 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
20896 of Tor invoke which others.
20898 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
20901 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
20902 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20903 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
20904 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
20905 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
20906 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
20907 release will the the official stable release.
20909 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
20910 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
20911 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
20912 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
20913 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
20916 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
20917 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
20918 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20920 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
20921 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
20922 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
20923 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
20924 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
20925 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
20926 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
20928 o Minor features (geoIP):
20929 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
20932 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20933 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
20934 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
20935 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
20936 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
20937 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
20938 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
20940 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
20941 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
20942 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
20945 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
20946 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
20947 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
20948 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
20950 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20951 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
20952 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
20953 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
20954 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
20955 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
20956 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
20957 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
20958 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
20959 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
20960 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
20964 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
20965 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
20969 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
20970 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
20971 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
20972 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
20973 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
20975 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
20976 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
20977 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
20978 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
20980 o Major features (security, hidden services):
20981 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
20982 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
20983 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
20984 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
20985 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
20986 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
20987 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
20989 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
20990 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
20991 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
20992 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
20993 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
20994 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
20997 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
20998 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
20999 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
21000 available. Implements ticket 16535.
21001 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
21002 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
21005 o Major features (performance testing):
21006 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
21007 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
21008 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
21010 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
21011 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
21012 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
21013 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
21015 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
21016 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
21017 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
21018 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
21019 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
21020 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
21022 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
21023 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
21025 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
21026 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
21027 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
21028 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
21029 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
21031 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
21032 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
21033 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
21034 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
21035 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
21036 own. Implements feature 15482.
21037 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
21038 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
21040 o Minor features (compilation):
21041 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
21042 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
21043 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
21044 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
21045 which started requiring ECC.
21047 o Minor features (geoip):
21048 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21051 o Minor features (hidden services):
21052 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
21053 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
21054 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
21055 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
21056 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
21057 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
21058 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
21059 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
21061 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
21062 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
21063 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
21066 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
21067 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
21068 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
21069 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
21071 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
21072 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
21073 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
21074 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
21075 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
21077 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
21078 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
21079 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
21080 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
21081 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21082 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
21083 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
21084 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
21085 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
21086 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
21087 Related to ticket 16069.
21088 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
21089 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
21090 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
21091 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
21092 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
21093 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
21095 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
21096 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
21097 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21098 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
21099 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
21101 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
21102 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
21103 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21105 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
21106 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
21107 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
21108 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21110 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21111 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
21112 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
21113 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
21114 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
21116 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
21117 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
21118 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
21119 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
21120 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
21121 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
21122 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
21123 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
21124 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
21125 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
21126 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
21129 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
21130 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
21131 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21133 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21134 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
21135 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21136 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
21137 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21139 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
21140 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
21141 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
21142 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
21144 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21145 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
21146 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
21148 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
21149 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
21150 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
21151 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
21152 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
21153 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21154 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
21155 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
21157 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21158 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
21159 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
21160 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
21161 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
21163 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
21164 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
21167 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21168 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
21169 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
21170 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
21171 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
21172 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
21173 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
21174 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
21175 function. Closes ticket 16763.
21176 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
21177 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
21178 suite of other microdesc functions.
21179 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
21180 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
21181 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
21182 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
21183 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
21184 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
21185 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
21186 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
21187 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
21188 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
21190 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
21191 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
21193 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
21196 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
21197 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
21198 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
21199 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
21203 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
21204 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
21205 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
21206 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
21207 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
21208 Closes ticket 13338.
21209 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
21210 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
21211 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
21212 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
21213 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
21214 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
21217 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
21218 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
21219 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
21220 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
21221 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
21222 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
21223 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
21225 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
21226 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
21227 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
21228 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
21229 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
21230 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
21231 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
21232 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
21233 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
21234 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
21235 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
21236 network before we begin.
21237 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
21238 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
21239 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
21240 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
21241 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
21242 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
21243 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
21244 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
21247 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
21248 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
21249 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
21250 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
21251 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
21252 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
21254 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
21255 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
21256 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
21258 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
21259 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
21260 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
21261 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
21262 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
21263 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
21264 Implements part of ticket 12498.
21265 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
21266 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21267 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
21268 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
21269 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
21270 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
21271 part of ticket 12498.
21272 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
21273 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
21274 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
21275 key). Closes ticket 13642.
21277 o Major features (Hidden services):
21278 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
21279 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
21280 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
21281 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
21282 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
21284 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
21285 introduction points, which used to change the number of
21286 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
21287 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
21289 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
21290 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
21291 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
21292 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
21293 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
21294 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
21296 o Major features (performance):
21297 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
21298 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
21299 Implements ticket 16467.
21300 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
21301 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
21302 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
21303 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
21305 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
21306 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21307 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
21308 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
21309 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
21310 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
21312 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21313 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21314 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21315 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21316 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21317 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21318 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21319 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21322 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21323 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
21324 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
21325 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
21326 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
21327 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
21328 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
21331 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
21332 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
21333 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
21334 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
21335 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
21336 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
21338 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
21339 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21340 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21341 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21342 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21343 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21344 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21345 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21348 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
21349 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21350 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21351 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21352 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
21353 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
21354 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21356 o Minor features (client):
21357 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
21358 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
21359 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
21361 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
21362 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
21363 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
21364 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
21365 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
21366 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
21367 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
21370 o Minor features (control protocol):
21371 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
21372 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
21374 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21375 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
21376 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
21377 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
21378 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
21379 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
21381 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
21382 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21383 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21385 o Minor features (hidden services):
21386 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
21387 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
21388 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
21389 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
21392 o Minor features (portability):
21393 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
21394 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
21395 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
21397 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
21398 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21399 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21400 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21402 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
21403 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
21404 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
21405 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
21407 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
21408 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21409 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21410 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21411 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21412 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21414 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
21415 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
21416 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
21417 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21418 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
21419 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
21420 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21422 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21423 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
21424 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21426 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
21427 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21428 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21429 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21431 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
21432 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
21433 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
21434 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
21436 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21437 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21440 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
21441 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
21442 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21443 from "cypherpunks".
21445 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
21446 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
21447 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21448 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
21449 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
21450 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
21452 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21453 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
21454 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21456 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
21457 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21458 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21460 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
21461 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
21462 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21463 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
21464 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21465 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
21466 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
21467 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
21468 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
21470 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21471 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
21472 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
21473 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
21474 haven't supported that in ages.
21475 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
21476 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
21477 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
21478 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
21481 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
21482 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
21483 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
21484 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
21485 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
21486 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
21488 o Removed features:
21489 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
21490 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
21491 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
21492 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
21493 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
21494 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
21495 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
21496 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
21497 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
21498 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
21499 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
21500 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
21501 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
21502 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
21503 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
21504 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
21505 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
21508 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
21509 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
21510 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
21511 Closes ticket 15817.
21512 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
21513 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
21515 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
21516 default as a part of "make check".
21517 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
21518 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
21519 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
21520 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
21524 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
21525 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
21526 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
21527 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
21528 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
21529 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
21531 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
21532 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
21533 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
21534 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
21535 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
21536 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
21537 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
21538 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
21541 o Major bugfixes (stability):
21542 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
21543 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
21544 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
21545 by "cypherpunks_backup".
21546 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
21547 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
21548 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
21551 o Minor features (geoip):
21552 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21553 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21555 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
21556 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
21557 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
21558 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
21559 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
21560 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
21562 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21563 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
21564 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
21565 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
21568 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
21569 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
21570 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
21571 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
21572 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
21574 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
21575 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
21576 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
21577 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
21578 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
21581 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
21582 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
21583 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
21584 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
21585 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
21586 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
21587 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
21589 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
21590 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
21591 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
21592 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
21594 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
21595 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
21596 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
21597 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
21598 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
21599 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
21602 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
21603 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
21604 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
21607 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
21608 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
21609 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
21610 authorities should upgrade.
21612 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21613 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21614 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21615 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21618 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
21619 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21620 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21623 o Minor features (geoip):
21624 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21625 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21629 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
21630 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
21631 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
21632 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
21633 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
21634 the hidden services subsystem.
21636 o New system requirements:
21637 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
21638 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
21641 o Major features (controller):
21642 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
21643 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
21645 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
21646 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
21647 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
21648 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
21649 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
21650 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
21651 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
21653 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21654 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
21655 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
21656 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
21659 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
21660 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
21661 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
21662 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
21663 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
21665 o Minor features (command-line interface):
21666 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
21667 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21668 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
21669 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
21671 o Minor features (controller):
21672 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
21673 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
21674 present. Implements ticket 14840.
21675 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
21676 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
21677 Closes ticket 14845.
21678 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
21679 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
21680 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
21682 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
21683 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
21684 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
21685 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
21687 o Minor features (geoip):
21688 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
21689 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
21692 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
21693 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
21694 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
21695 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
21696 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
21697 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
21698 Closes ticket 15745.
21700 o Minor features (logging):
21701 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
21702 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
21705 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
21706 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
21707 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
21708 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
21710 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
21711 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
21712 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
21713 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
21714 Resolves ticket 15435.
21716 o Minor features (testing):
21717 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
21718 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
21719 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
21720 files. Closes ticket 15180.
21721 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
21722 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
21723 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
21724 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
21725 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
21726 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
21727 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
21728 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
21729 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
21730 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
21731 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
21732 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
21734 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21735 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
21736 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
21739 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
21740 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
21741 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
21743 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
21744 stderr, not stdout.
21746 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
21747 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
21748 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
21749 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
21750 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
21751 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
21752 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
21753 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
21755 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
21756 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
21757 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
21759 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
21760 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
21761 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
21764 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
21765 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
21766 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
21768 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
21769 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21771 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
21772 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
21773 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
21774 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
21777 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
21778 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
21779 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
21780 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
21781 recent enough Clang.
21783 o Minor bugfixes (network):
21784 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
21785 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
21786 unsuitable for public communications.
21788 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
21789 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
21790 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
21791 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
21792 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
21793 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
21795 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
21796 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
21797 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
21798 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
21799 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
21800 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
21801 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
21802 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
21804 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
21805 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
21806 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
21808 - Set the severity correctly when testing
21809 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
21810 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
21811 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
21812 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
21814 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21815 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
21816 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
21818 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
21819 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
21820 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
21821 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
21822 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
21825 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
21826 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
21828 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
21829 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
21830 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
21831 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
21832 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
21835 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
21836 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
21837 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
21838 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
21839 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
21840 Closes ticket 14922.
21842 o Removed features:
21843 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
21844 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
21845 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
21846 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
21847 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
21848 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
21849 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
21850 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
21851 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
21852 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
21853 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
21856 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
21857 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21858 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21859 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21860 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21862 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21863 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21865 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21866 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21867 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21868 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21869 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21870 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21871 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21873 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21874 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21875 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21876 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21877 Resolves ticket 15515.
21880 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
21881 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
21882 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
21883 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
21884 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21886 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
21887 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21889 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21890 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21891 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21892 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21893 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21894 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21895 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21897 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21898 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21899 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21900 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21901 Resolves ticket 15515.
21904 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
21905 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
21906 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
21907 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
21908 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
21910 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
21911 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
21913 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
21914 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
21915 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
21916 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
21917 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
21918 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
21919 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
21921 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
21922 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
21923 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
21924 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
21925 Resolves ticket 15515.
21926 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
21927 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
21928 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
21932 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
21933 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
21935 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
21936 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
21937 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
21938 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
21939 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
21940 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
21941 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
21942 bugs should be addressed.
21944 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
21945 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
21946 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
21947 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
21949 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
21950 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
21951 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
21953 o Major bugfixes (client):
21954 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
21955 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
21958 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
21959 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
21960 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
21961 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
21962 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
21963 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
21965 o Major bugfixes (portability):
21966 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
21967 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
21970 o Minor features (heartbeat):
21971 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
21972 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
21973 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
21974 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
21976 o Code simplification and refactoring:
21977 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
21978 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
21981 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
21982 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
21984 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
21985 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
21986 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
21988 o Directory authority changes:
21989 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
21990 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
21991 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
21992 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
21993 closes ticket 14487.
21995 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
21996 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
21997 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
22000 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
22001 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
22002 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
22003 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
22004 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
22005 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
22006 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
22007 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22009 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
22010 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
22011 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
22012 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22014 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22015 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
22016 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
22017 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
22019 o Minor features (controller):
22020 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
22021 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
22022 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
22024 o Minor features (geoip):
22025 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
22026 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
22029 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
22030 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
22031 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
22032 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22033 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
22034 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22036 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22037 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
22038 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
22039 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
22041 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
22042 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
22043 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
22044 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
22045 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22046 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
22047 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
22048 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22050 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
22051 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
22052 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22054 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22055 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22056 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22057 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22058 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22062 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
22063 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
22064 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
22067 o Directory authority changes:
22068 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22069 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22070 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22071 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
22072 closes ticket 14487.
22074 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
22075 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
22076 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
22077 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22079 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
22080 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
22081 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
22082 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
22083 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
22084 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
22085 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
22086 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22088 o Minor features (geoip):
22089 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
22090 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
22093 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
22094 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
22095 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
22096 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
22097 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
22099 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
22100 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
22101 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
22104 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
22105 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
22106 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
22107 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
22108 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
22109 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
22110 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
22111 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22113 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
22114 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
22115 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
22118 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22119 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
22120 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
22122 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
22123 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
22124 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
22125 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
22126 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
22128 o Minor features (controller):
22129 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
22130 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
22131 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
22133 o Minor features (geoip):
22134 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
22135 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
22138 o Minor features (logs):
22139 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
22142 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
22143 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
22144 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
22145 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22146 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
22147 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
22148 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
22149 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
22150 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
22152 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22153 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
22155 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
22158 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
22159 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
22160 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
22162 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
22163 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
22164 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
22165 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
22166 from "cypherpunks".
22167 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
22168 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
22171 o Directory authority IP change:
22172 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
22173 closes ticket 14487.
22176 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
22177 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
22178 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
22182 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
22183 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
22184 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
22185 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
22186 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
22187 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
22189 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
22190 the next version will be a release candidate.
22192 o Deprecated versions:
22193 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
22194 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
22196 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
22197 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
22198 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
22199 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
22200 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
22201 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
22203 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
22204 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
22205 Implements ticket 11485.
22207 o Major features (changed defaults):
22208 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
22209 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
22210 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
22211 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
22212 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
22213 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
22215 o Major features (directory system):
22216 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
22217 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
22218 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
22219 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
22220 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
22221 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
22222 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
22223 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
22224 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
22225 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
22226 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
22227 227. Closes ticket 10395.
22229 o Major features (guards):
22230 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
22231 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
22232 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
22233 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
22234 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
22236 o Major features (performance):
22237 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
22238 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
22239 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
22240 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
22241 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
22242 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
22243 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
22244 Implements ticket 9682.
22246 o Major features (relay):
22247 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
22248 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
22249 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
22251 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
22252 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
22253 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
22254 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
22256 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
22257 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
22258 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
22259 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
22260 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
22261 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
22262 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
22264 o Minor features (build):
22265 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
22266 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
22267 Resolves ticket 13037.
22269 o Minor features (controller):
22270 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
22271 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
22273 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
22274 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
22275 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
22276 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
22277 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
22278 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
22280 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
22281 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
22282 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
22283 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
22284 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
22285 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
22286 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
22287 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
22288 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
22289 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
22291 o Minor features (geoip):
22292 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
22293 GeoLite2 Country database.
22295 o Minor features (guard nodes):
22296 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
22297 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
22298 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
22300 o Minor features (hidden service):
22301 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
22302 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
22303 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
22304 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
22305 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
22306 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
22307 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
22308 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
22310 o Minor features (interface):
22311 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
22312 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
22313 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
22315 o Minor features (logging):
22316 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
22317 Resolves ticket 6852.
22318 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
22319 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
22320 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
22322 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
22323 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
22325 o Minor features (stability):
22326 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
22327 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
22330 o Minor features (systemd):
22331 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
22332 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
22334 o Minor features (testing networks):
22335 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
22336 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
22337 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
22338 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
22339 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
22340 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
22342 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
22343 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
22344 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
22345 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
22346 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
22348 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
22349 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
22350 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
22351 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
22352 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
22354 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
22355 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
22356 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
22357 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
22358 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
22359 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
22360 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
22361 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22363 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
22364 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
22365 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
22366 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22367 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
22368 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
22369 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
22370 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
22372 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
22373 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
22374 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
22377 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
22378 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
22379 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
22380 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
22381 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
22383 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
22384 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
22385 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
22386 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
22387 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
22389 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22390 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
22391 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
22392 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
22393 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
22394 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
22395 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
22396 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
22397 Addresses ticket 14188.
22398 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
22399 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
22400 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
22401 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
22402 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
22403 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
22404 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
22405 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
22406 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22408 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22409 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
22410 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
22411 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
22412 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
22413 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22414 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
22415 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22417 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
22418 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
22419 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
22420 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
22421 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
22422 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
22423 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
22424 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22425 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
22426 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22427 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
22428 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
22429 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22431 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
22432 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
22433 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
22434 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
22435 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
22436 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
22437 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
22438 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
22439 state, and key files.
22440 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
22441 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
22444 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22445 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
22446 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
22447 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
22448 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22449 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
22450 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
22451 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22452 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
22453 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
22454 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22456 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22457 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
22458 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22459 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
22461 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
22462 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22464 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
22465 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
22466 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
22467 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
22468 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
22469 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22471 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
22472 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
22473 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
22474 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22475 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
22476 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
22477 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22478 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
22479 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
22480 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22482 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
22483 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
22484 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
22486 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
22487 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
22489 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
22490 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
22491 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
22492 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
22493 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
22495 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
22496 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
22497 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
22498 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
22501 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
22502 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
22503 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
22506 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
22507 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
22508 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
22510 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
22511 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
22512 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22513 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
22514 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
22515 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
22516 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
22518 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
22519 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
22522 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
22523 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
22524 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
22526 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
22527 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
22528 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
22531 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22532 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
22533 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
22534 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
22535 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
22536 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
22537 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
22538 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
22539 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
22541 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
22542 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
22544 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
22548 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
22549 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
22550 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
22551 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22552 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
22553 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
22555 o Downgraded warnings:
22556 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
22557 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
22559 o Removed features:
22560 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
22561 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
22562 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
22563 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
22564 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
22568 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
22569 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22570 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
22571 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
22572 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
22573 (existing behavior).
22574 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
22575 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
22576 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
22577 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
22578 Closes ticket 14107.
22579 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
22580 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
22581 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
22582 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
22584 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
22585 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
22586 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
22589 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
22590 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
22591 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
22592 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
22593 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
22594 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
22596 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
22597 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
22598 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
22599 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
22601 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
22602 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
22603 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
22604 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
22605 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
22606 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
22608 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
22609 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
22610 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
22611 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
22612 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
22613 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
22614 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
22617 o Major features (hidden services):
22618 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
22619 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
22620 Closes ticket 13667.
22621 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
22622 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
22623 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
22624 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
22625 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
22626 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
22627 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
22628 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
22629 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
22630 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
22631 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
22633 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
22634 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
22635 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
22636 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
22637 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
22638 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
22641 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
22642 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
22643 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
22644 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
22645 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
22646 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
22648 o Directory authority changes:
22649 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
22650 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
22651 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
22653 o Major removed features:
22654 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
22655 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
22656 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
22657 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
22659 o Minor features (client):
22660 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
22661 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
22662 Resolves ticket 13315.
22664 o Minor features (controller):
22665 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
22666 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
22669 o Minor features (geoip):
22670 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
22673 o Minor features (hidden services):
22674 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
22675 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
22676 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
22677 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
22678 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
22679 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
22681 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
22682 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
22683 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
22685 o Minor features (systemd):
22686 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
22687 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22688 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
22689 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
22691 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
22692 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
22693 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
22694 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
22695 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
22698 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
22699 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
22700 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
22701 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
22702 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
22704 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
22705 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
22706 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
22709 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
22710 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
22711 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
22712 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
22713 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
22715 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
22716 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
22717 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
22719 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
22720 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
22721 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
22722 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
22723 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
22725 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
22726 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
22729 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
22730 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
22731 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
22732 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
22733 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
22734 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
22735 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
22736 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
22737 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
22738 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
22739 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
22740 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
22741 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
22742 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
22745 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
22746 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
22747 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
22748 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
22749 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
22750 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
22752 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
22753 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
22754 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
22755 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
22757 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
22758 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22760 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
22761 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
22762 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
22763 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
22766 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
22767 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
22768 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
22769 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
22770 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
22771 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
22773 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
22774 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
22775 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
22776 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
22777 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22778 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
22779 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
22780 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
22781 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
22782 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
22783 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
22784 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
22785 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
22786 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
22787 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
22788 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
22789 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
22790 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
22791 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
22792 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22793 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
22794 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
22795 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
22796 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
22797 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
22798 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
22799 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
22800 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22801 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
22802 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
22803 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
22804 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
22806 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
22807 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
22808 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
22809 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
22810 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
22812 o Code simplification and refactoring:
22813 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
22814 with a function instead.
22815 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
22816 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
22817 Closes ticket 13172.
22818 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
22819 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
22820 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
22821 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
22822 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
22823 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
22824 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
22825 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
22826 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
22827 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
22828 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
22829 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
22833 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
22834 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
22835 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
22836 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
22837 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
22838 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
22839 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
22840 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
22841 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
22842 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
22843 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
22844 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
22847 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
22848 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
22849 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
22850 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
22851 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
22852 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
22854 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
22858 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
22859 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
22860 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
22861 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
22862 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
22863 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
22864 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
22865 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
22866 of introducing infinite download loops.
22868 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
22869 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
22870 with 0.2.5.x for now.
22872 o New compiler and system requirements:
22873 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
22874 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
22875 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
22876 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
22878 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
22879 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
22880 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
22881 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
22882 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
22883 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
22884 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
22885 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
22886 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
22888 o Removed platform support:
22889 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
22890 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
22891 Closes ticket 11446.
22893 o Major features (bridges):
22894 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
22895 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
22896 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
22899 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
22900 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
22901 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
22902 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
22905 o Major features (directory system):
22906 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
22907 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
22908 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
22909 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
22911 o Major features (sample torrc):
22912 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
22913 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
22914 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
22915 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
22916 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
22917 generally useful "sample torrc".
22919 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
22920 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
22921 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22923 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
22924 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
22925 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
22926 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
22927 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
22929 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
22930 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
22931 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
22932 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
22934 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
22935 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
22936 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
22937 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
22938 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
22939 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
22942 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
22943 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
22944 document. Implements feature 10427.
22946 o Minor features (client):
22947 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
22948 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
22949 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
22950 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
22952 o Minor features (directory authorities):
22953 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
22954 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
22955 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
22956 argument more than once.
22957 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
22958 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
22959 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
22960 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
22961 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
22962 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
22964 o Minor features (logging):
22965 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
22966 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
22967 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
22968 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
22969 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
22970 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
22971 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
22972 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
22973 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
22975 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
22976 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
22977 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
22978 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
22980 o Minor features (relay):
22981 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
22982 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
22983 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
22985 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
22986 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
22987 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
22988 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
22990 o Minor features (testing networks):
22991 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
22992 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
22993 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
22994 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
22995 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
22998 o Minor features (validation):
22999 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
23000 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
23001 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
23002 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
23003 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
23004 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
23005 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
23006 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
23008 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
23009 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
23010 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
23011 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23013 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23014 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
23015 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
23016 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
23018 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
23019 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
23020 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
23022 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
23023 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
23024 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
23026 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
23027 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23028 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
23029 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
23030 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
23031 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
23032 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
23034 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23035 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
23036 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
23037 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
23038 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
23039 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
23040 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
23041 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
23042 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
23044 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
23045 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
23046 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
23047 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
23048 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
23050 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
23051 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
23052 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
23054 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23055 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
23056 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
23057 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
23058 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
23060 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
23061 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
23062 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
23063 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23064 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
23065 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
23066 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23067 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
23068 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
23069 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
23070 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
23073 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
23074 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
23075 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
23076 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
23077 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23079 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
23080 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
23081 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23082 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
23083 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
23086 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
23087 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
23088 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23089 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
23090 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
23091 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
23093 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23094 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
23095 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
23096 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
23098 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
23099 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
23100 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
23101 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23103 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
23104 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
23105 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
23106 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
23109 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
23110 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
23111 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23114 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
23115 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23116 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
23117 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
23118 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
23121 o Code simplification and refactoring:
23122 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
23123 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
23125 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
23126 Resolves ticket 12205.
23127 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
23128 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
23129 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
23130 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
23132 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
23133 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
23134 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
23136 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
23137 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
23139 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
23140 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
23141 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
23142 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
23143 or_options_t structure.
23146 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
23147 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
23148 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
23149 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
23152 o Removed features:
23153 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
23154 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
23155 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
23156 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
23157 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
23158 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
23159 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
23160 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
23161 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
23163 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
23164 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
23166 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
23167 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
23168 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
23169 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
23170 anymore, and ignore it.
23173 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
23174 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
23175 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
23176 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
23177 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
23178 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
23179 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
23180 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
23181 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
23182 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
23183 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
23184 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
23186 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
23187 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
23188 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
23190 o Distribution (systemd):
23191 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
23192 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
23193 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
23194 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
23195 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
23197 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
23198 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
23200 o Removed features (directory authorities):
23201 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
23202 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
23203 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
23204 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
23205 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
23206 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
23207 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
23208 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
23209 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
23211 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
23212 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
23213 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
23214 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
23217 o Testing (test-network.sh):
23218 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
23219 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
23221 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
23223 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
23224 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
23225 Partially implements ticket 13161.
23228 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
23229 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
23231 It adds several new security features, including improved
23232 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
23233 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
23234 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
23235 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
23236 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
23237 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
23238 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
23239 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
23240 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
23241 and features mentioned below.
23243 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
23244 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23246 o Deprecated versions:
23247 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
23248 attention for some while.
23251 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
23252 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23253 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23254 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23255 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23256 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
23258 o Major security fixes:
23259 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23260 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23261 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23263 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
23264 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23265 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23266 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23269 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
23270 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
23271 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
23272 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23274 o Compilation fixes:
23275 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
23276 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
23277 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
23279 o Downgraded warnings:
23280 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
23281 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
23284 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
23285 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
23286 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
23287 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
23288 (which does affect Tor).
23290 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23291 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
23292 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
23293 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
23295 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
23296 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
23297 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
23298 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
23301 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
23302 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
23303 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23304 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23305 the directory authorities.
23308 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23309 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23310 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23311 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23312 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23313 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23314 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23315 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23316 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23317 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23318 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23319 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23321 o Directory authority changes:
23322 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23325 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
23326 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
23327 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
23328 the directory authorities.
23331 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
23332 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
23333 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
23334 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
23335 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
23336 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
23337 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
23338 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
23339 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
23340 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
23341 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
23342 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23344 o Directory authority changes:
23345 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
23347 o Minor features (geoip):
23348 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23352 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
23353 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
23354 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
23355 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
23356 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
23358 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
23359 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
23360 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
23361 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
23362 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
23363 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
23364 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23365 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
23366 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
23367 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
23368 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
23369 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
23370 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
23371 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23372 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
23373 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
23375 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23376 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
23377 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
23378 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
23379 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
23380 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
23381 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
23382 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
23384 o Minor features (bridge):
23385 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
23386 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
23388 o Minor features (geoip):
23389 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23392 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23393 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
23394 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
23395 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
23396 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
23397 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
23398 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23399 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
23400 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
23401 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
23402 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
23403 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
23404 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
23405 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
23406 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
23408 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
23409 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
23410 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
23411 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
23412 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
23414 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
23415 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
23416 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23417 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
23418 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
23421 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23422 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
23423 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
23424 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
23425 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
23426 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
23427 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
23428 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
23429 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
23430 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
23431 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
23434 o Distribution (systemd):
23435 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
23436 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
23437 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
23438 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
23439 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
23440 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
23441 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
23442 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
23443 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
23447 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
23448 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
23450 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
23454 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
23455 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
23456 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
23457 us closer to a release candidate.
23459 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
23460 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23461 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23462 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23463 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23465 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23466 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23467 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23468 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23469 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23470 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23471 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23472 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23473 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23477 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
23478 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
23479 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
23480 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
23481 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
23482 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
23483 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
23484 to build circuits".
23487 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
23488 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
23489 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
23490 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
23491 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
23492 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
23493 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
23494 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23496 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
23498 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
23499 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23500 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23501 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23502 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23503 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23504 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23505 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23506 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23507 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23510 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
23511 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
23512 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
23513 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
23515 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
23516 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
23517 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
23520 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
23521 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
23522 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
23523 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
23526 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
23527 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
23528 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
23529 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
23530 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
23531 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
23532 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
23533 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
23534 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
23535 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
23538 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
23539 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
23540 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
23541 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
23542 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
23543 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
23544 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
23545 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
23549 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
23550 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
23551 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
23552 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
23553 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
23554 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
23555 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
23556 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
23557 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
23558 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
23559 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
23560 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
23561 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
23564 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23568 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
23569 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
23570 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
23571 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
23572 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
23573 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
23576 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
23577 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
23578 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
23579 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
23580 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
23581 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
23582 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
23583 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
23584 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
23585 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
23586 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
23587 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
23588 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23590 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23591 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23592 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23593 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23596 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
23597 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
23598 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
23600 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
23601 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
23602 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
23603 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
23604 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
23605 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
23606 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
23607 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
23608 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
23609 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
23610 router's identity is not forgeable.
23612 o Major bugfixes (relay):
23613 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
23614 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
23615 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
23616 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
23617 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
23618 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
23619 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
23620 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
23621 bugfix on every version of Tor.
23623 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
23624 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
23625 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
23626 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
23629 o Minor features (diagnostic):
23630 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
23631 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
23632 help diagnose bug 7164.
23633 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
23634 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
23635 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
23636 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
23637 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
23639 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
23640 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
23641 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
23642 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
23643 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
23644 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
23645 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
23647 o Minor features (security, memory management):
23648 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
23649 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
23650 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
23651 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
23652 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
23653 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
23655 o Minor features (security):
23656 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
23657 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
23658 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
23659 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
23661 o Minor features (build):
23662 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
23663 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
23664 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
23666 o Minor features (other):
23667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
23670 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
23671 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
23672 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
23673 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23674 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23676 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
23677 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
23678 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
23679 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
23680 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
23681 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
23682 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
23683 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
23684 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
23685 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
23686 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
23687 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
23689 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23690 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
23691 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23692 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
23693 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
23694 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
23695 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
23696 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
23697 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
23698 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
23699 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23700 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
23701 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
23702 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
23703 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
23704 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
23705 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
23706 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
23709 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
23710 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
23711 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
23712 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
23713 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
23714 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
23715 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
23717 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
23718 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
23719 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23720 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
23721 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23722 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
23723 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23724 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
23725 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
23727 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
23728 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
23730 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
23731 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
23733 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
23734 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
23735 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
23736 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
23737 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
23738 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23739 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
23740 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
23741 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
23743 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
23744 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
23745 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
23746 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
23747 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
23748 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23749 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
23750 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
23751 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23752 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
23753 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
23754 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23755 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
23756 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
23757 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
23758 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
23759 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
23760 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23762 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
23763 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
23764 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
23765 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
23766 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
23767 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
23768 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
23769 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
23770 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
23773 o Minor bugfixes (client):
23774 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
23775 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
23776 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
23777 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
23779 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
23780 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
23781 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
23782 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
23784 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
23785 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
23786 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
23787 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
23788 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
23789 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
23790 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
23791 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
23793 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
23794 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
23795 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
23796 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
23799 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
23800 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
23801 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
23802 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
23803 versions. Found by "skruffy".
23804 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
23805 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
23806 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
23809 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
23810 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
23811 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
23812 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
23815 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
23816 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
23817 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
23818 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
23820 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
23821 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
23822 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
23824 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
23825 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
23826 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
23828 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
23829 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
23830 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
23831 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
23832 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
23836 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
23837 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
23838 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
23839 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
23842 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
23843 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
23844 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
23845 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
23847 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
23848 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
23850 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
23851 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
23852 caches don't get confused.
23855 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
23856 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
23857 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
23858 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
23859 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
23862 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
23863 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
23864 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
23865 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
23866 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
23867 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
23871 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
23872 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
23873 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
23874 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
23875 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
23876 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
23877 of RAM, and several others.
23879 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23880 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23881 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23882 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23883 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23885 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
23886 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
23887 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
23888 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
23891 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23892 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
23893 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
23894 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
23895 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
23896 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
23897 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
23898 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
23899 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
23900 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
23901 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
23902 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
23903 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
23904 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
23905 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
23906 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
23907 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
23908 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
23909 Resolves ticket 11438.
23911 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
23912 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
23913 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
23914 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
23915 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
23916 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
23918 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23919 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
23920 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
23922 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23923 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
23924 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
23926 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23927 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
23928 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
23929 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23931 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23932 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
23933 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
23935 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
23936 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
23937 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
23940 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
23941 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
23942 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
23943 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
23946 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23947 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
23948 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
23949 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
23951 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23952 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
23953 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
23954 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
23956 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
23957 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
23958 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
23962 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
23963 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
23964 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
23965 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
23966 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
23967 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
23968 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
23969 the Linux sandbox code.
23971 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
23972 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
23973 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
23975 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
23976 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
23978 o Major features (security):
23979 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
23980 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
23981 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
23982 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
23983 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
23984 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
23985 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
23986 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
23988 o Major features (relay performance):
23989 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
23990 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
23991 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
23992 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
23993 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
23994 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
23995 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
23996 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
23997 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
23998 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
24000 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
24001 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
24002 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
24003 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
24004 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
24005 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
24006 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
24008 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
24009 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
24011 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
24012 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
24013 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
24014 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
24015 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
24016 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
24017 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24018 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
24019 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
24020 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
24021 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
24022 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
24023 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
24024 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
24025 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
24026 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
24027 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
24028 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
24029 Resolves ticket 11438.
24031 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
24032 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
24033 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
24034 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24036 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
24037 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
24038 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
24039 10267; patch from "yurivict".
24040 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
24041 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
24042 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
24043 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
24044 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
24045 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
24047 o Minor features (security):
24048 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
24049 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
24050 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
24051 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
24054 o Minor features (log verbosity):
24055 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
24056 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
24057 Resolves ticket 5286.
24058 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
24059 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
24060 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
24061 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
24062 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
24063 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
24064 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
24065 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
24066 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
24068 o Minor features (relay):
24069 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
24070 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
24071 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
24073 o Minor features (controller):
24074 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
24075 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
24077 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
24078 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
24079 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
24081 o Minor features (bridge client):
24082 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
24083 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
24084 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
24086 o Minor features (diagnostic):
24087 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
24088 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
24089 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
24090 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
24091 still referenced by a live node_t object.
24093 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
24094 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
24095 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
24096 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
24098 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
24099 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
24100 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
24101 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
24104 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
24105 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
24106 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24108 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
24109 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
24110 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
24111 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24112 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
24113 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
24114 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
24116 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
24117 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
24118 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
24119 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24120 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
24121 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
24122 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24123 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
24124 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
24125 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
24126 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24127 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
24128 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
24131 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
24132 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
24133 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
24134 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
24135 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
24137 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
24138 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
24139 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
24142 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
24143 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
24144 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
24146 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
24147 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
24148 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
24150 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24151 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
24152 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
24153 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24155 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
24156 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
24157 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
24158 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
24159 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
24161 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
24162 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
24163 early. Fixes bug 10081.
24165 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
24166 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
24167 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24168 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
24169 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24170 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
24171 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
24172 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
24174 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
24175 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
24176 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
24177 should never have affected anyone in practice.
24179 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
24180 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
24181 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24183 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
24184 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
24185 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
24186 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
24187 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
24188 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
24189 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
24190 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
24191 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
24192 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
24193 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
24194 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
24195 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
24196 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
24198 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
24199 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
24200 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
24201 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
24202 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
24203 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
24204 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
24205 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
24209 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
24210 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
24211 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
24212 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24213 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
24214 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24215 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
24216 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
24218 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
24220 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24221 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
24222 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
24223 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
24224 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
24227 o Deprecated versions:
24228 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
24229 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
24230 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
24231 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
24234 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
24235 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
24236 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
24237 Patch from Dana Koch.
24240 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
24241 Resolves ticket 11070.
24244 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
24245 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
24246 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
24247 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
24248 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
24251 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
24252 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
24254 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
24255 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
24256 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
24257 streams attached to each circuit.
24259 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
24260 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
24261 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
24262 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
24263 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
24264 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
24265 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
24266 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
24267 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
24268 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
24269 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
24270 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
24271 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
24273 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
24274 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
24275 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
24277 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24278 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
24279 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
24280 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
24281 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
24282 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
24283 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
24284 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
24285 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
24287 o Minor features (other):
24288 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
24289 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
24290 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
24291 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
24292 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
24293 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
24294 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
24295 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
24296 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
24299 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
24300 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24301 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24302 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24303 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24304 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24305 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24306 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24308 o Minor bugfixes (client):
24309 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
24310 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
24311 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
24312 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24313 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
24314 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
24315 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
24317 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
24318 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
24319 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
24320 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
24321 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
24322 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
24323 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
24324 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
24325 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
24326 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
24327 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
24328 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24330 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
24331 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
24332 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
24333 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
24334 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
24335 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
24336 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
24337 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
24338 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
24339 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
24340 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
24341 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
24342 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
24343 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
24345 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
24346 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
24348 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
24349 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
24350 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
24351 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
24352 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
24353 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
24354 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24355 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
24356 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
24357 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
24358 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
24359 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
24360 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
24361 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
24363 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
24364 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
24365 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
24366 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24369 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
24370 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24371 the rest of bug 10841.
24374 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
24375 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
24376 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
24377 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
24378 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
24379 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
24380 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
24381 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
24382 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
24383 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
24384 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
24385 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24386 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
24387 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
24388 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24390 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
24391 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
24392 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
24394 o Test infrastructure:
24395 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
24396 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
24397 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
24398 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
24401 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
24402 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
24403 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
24404 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
24406 o Major features (client security):
24407 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24408 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24409 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24410 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24411 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24412 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24415 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24416 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24417 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24418 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24420 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24421 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24422 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
24423 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
24424 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
24427 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24428 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24430 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
24431 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
24432 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
24433 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
24434 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
24435 GeoLite2 Country database.
24438 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
24439 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
24440 bugfix on every released Tor.
24441 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24442 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24443 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24444 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24445 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
24446 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
24447 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
24448 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24449 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24450 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24451 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24452 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24453 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24454 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24455 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24457 o Documentation fixes:
24458 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24459 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24462 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
24463 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
24464 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
24465 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
24466 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
24467 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
24468 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
24469 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
24471 o Major features (client security):
24472 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
24473 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
24474 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
24475 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
24476 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
24477 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
24478 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
24479 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
24480 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
24481 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
24482 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
24483 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
24485 o Major features (bridges):
24486 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
24487 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
24488 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
24489 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
24490 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
24491 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
24492 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
24493 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
24496 o Major features (other):
24497 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
24498 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
24499 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
24500 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
24501 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
24502 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
24503 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
24504 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
24505 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
24506 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
24507 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
24508 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
24511 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
24512 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
24513 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
24514 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
24515 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
24516 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
24517 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24519 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24520 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24521 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24522 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24523 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24524 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24525 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24526 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24527 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24529 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24530 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24531 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24532 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24533 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24534 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24536 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24537 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24538 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24539 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24540 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24541 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24544 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
24545 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
24546 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
24547 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
24548 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
24549 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
24550 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
24552 o Minor features (security):
24553 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
24554 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
24557 o Minor features (config options and command line):
24558 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
24559 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
24560 Implements ticket 10060.
24561 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
24562 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
24563 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
24565 o Minor features (controller):
24566 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
24567 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
24568 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
24569 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
24570 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
24573 o Minor features (build):
24574 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
24575 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
24576 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
24577 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
24578 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
24579 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
24580 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
24582 o Minor features (testing):
24583 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
24584 the unit test scripts.
24585 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
24586 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
24587 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
24588 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
24590 o Minor features (log messages):
24591 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
24592 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
24593 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
24594 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
24595 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
24596 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
24597 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
24598 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
24599 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
24600 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24602 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24603 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24604 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24605 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24606 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24607 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24608 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24609 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24610 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24611 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24613 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24614 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
24615 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
24616 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
24619 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24620 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
24621 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
24622 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
24623 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24625 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24626 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
24627 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
24628 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
24629 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
24630 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
24631 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
24633 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
24634 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
24635 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
24636 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
24637 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
24638 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
24639 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24640 Reported by "mr-4".
24641 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
24642 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
24643 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
24644 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
24646 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
24647 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
24648 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
24649 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
24650 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
24651 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
24652 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
24653 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
24654 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
24655 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
24656 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24658 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24659 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
24660 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
24661 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
24662 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
24663 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
24664 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
24665 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
24666 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
24667 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
24669 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24670 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
24671 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
24672 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
24675 o Minor bugfixes (build):
24676 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
24677 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
24678 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
24679 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
24680 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
24682 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
24683 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
24685 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
24686 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
24687 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
24688 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24690 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24691 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
24692 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
24693 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24694 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
24695 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
24696 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
24697 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
24698 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
24699 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
24700 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
24701 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
24702 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
24703 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
24705 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
24706 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24707 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24708 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24709 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24710 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24712 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24713 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24714 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24715 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24716 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24717 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24718 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24719 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24720 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24721 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24722 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24723 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24725 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24726 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24727 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24728 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24729 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24730 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24731 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24732 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24733 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24734 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24735 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24736 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24737 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24738 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24739 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24740 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24743 o Removed code and features:
24744 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
24745 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
24746 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
24747 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
24748 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
24749 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
24751 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
24752 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
24753 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
24754 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
24755 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
24756 part of a fix for bug 10841.
24758 o Code simplification and refactoring:
24759 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
24760 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
24761 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
24762 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
24763 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
24764 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
24765 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
24766 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
24767 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
24768 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
24771 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
24772 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
24773 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
24774 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
24775 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
24777 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
24778 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24779 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24780 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24781 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24782 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24783 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24786 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
24787 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
24788 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
24791 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
24792 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
24793 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
24794 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
24795 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
24796 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
24797 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
24799 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
24800 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
24803 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
24804 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
24805 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
24806 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
24807 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
24808 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
24809 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
24810 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
24812 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
24813 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24814 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
24815 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
24816 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
24817 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
24820 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
24821 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24822 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
24823 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
24824 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
24827 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
24828 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
24829 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
24830 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
24831 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
24832 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
24833 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
24834 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
24836 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
24837 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
24838 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
24839 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
24840 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
24841 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
24842 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
24843 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
24844 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
24845 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
24846 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
24847 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
24848 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
24849 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
24850 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
24851 security, and privacy fixes.
24854 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
24855 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
24856 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
24857 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
24860 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24861 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24862 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24863 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24864 them to solve bug 6033.)
24867 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
24868 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
24869 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
24870 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24871 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24872 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24873 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
24874 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
24876 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
24877 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
24878 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
24879 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
24881 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
24882 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
24883 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
24884 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
24885 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
24886 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
24887 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
24888 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
24889 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
24890 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
24891 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
24892 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
24894 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
24895 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
24896 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
24897 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
24898 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
24899 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24900 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
24901 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
24902 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
24903 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
24904 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
24905 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
24906 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
24907 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
24908 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
24909 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
24912 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
24913 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
24914 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
24915 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
24916 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
24917 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
24918 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
24919 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
24920 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
24921 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
24922 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
24923 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
24924 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
24925 Implements part of proposal 222.
24927 o Minor features (other):
24928 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
24929 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
24930 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
24931 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
24932 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
24933 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
24934 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
24935 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
24936 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24938 o Documentation fixes:
24939 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
24940 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
24941 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
24942 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
24943 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
24944 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
24947 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
24948 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
24949 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
24950 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
24951 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
24952 release of the new branch.
24954 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
24955 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
24956 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
24958 o Major features (security):
24959 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
24960 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
24961 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
24962 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
24963 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
24964 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
24965 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
24966 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
24967 Google Summer of Code.
24968 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
24969 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
24970 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
24971 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
24972 them to solve bug 6033.)
24974 o Major features (other):
24975 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
24976 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
24977 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
24978 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
24979 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
24981 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
24982 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
24983 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
24984 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
24985 Implements ticket 8530.
24986 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
24987 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
24990 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
24991 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
24992 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
24993 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
24994 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
24995 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24996 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
24997 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
24998 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
24999 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
25000 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
25001 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
25002 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
25005 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
25006 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
25007 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
25008 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
25009 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
25010 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
25011 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
25012 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
25013 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
25014 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
25018 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
25019 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
25020 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
25021 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
25022 invoking the other functions it calls.
25023 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
25024 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
25025 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
25026 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
25028 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
25029 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
25030 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
25031 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
25032 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
25033 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
25034 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
25035 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
25036 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
25037 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
25038 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
25039 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
25040 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
25041 Implements part of proposal 222.
25043 o Minor features (config options):
25044 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
25045 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
25046 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
25047 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
25048 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
25049 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
25050 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
25051 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
25052 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
25053 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
25054 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
25055 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
25056 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
25057 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
25058 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
25059 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
25060 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
25063 o Minor features (build):
25064 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
25065 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
25066 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
25067 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
25068 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
25071 o Minor features (other):
25072 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
25073 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
25074 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
25075 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
25076 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
25077 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
25078 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
25079 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
25080 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
25081 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
25082 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
25083 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
25084 Closes ticket 8109.
25085 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25088 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
25089 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
25090 bugfix on every released Tor.
25091 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
25092 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
25093 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
25094 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
25095 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
25096 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
25098 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
25099 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
25100 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
25101 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25102 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
25103 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
25104 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
25105 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
25107 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
25108 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
25109 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
25110 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
25111 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
25113 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
25114 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
25116 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
25117 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
25118 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
25120 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
25121 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
25122 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
25123 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
25124 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25126 o Minor code improvements:
25127 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
25128 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
25130 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
25131 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
25132 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
25133 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
25134 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
25136 o Removed features:
25137 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
25138 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
25139 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
25140 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
25142 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25143 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
25144 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
25145 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
25146 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
25147 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
25148 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
25149 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
25150 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
25151 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
25152 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
25153 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
25154 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
25155 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
25156 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
25157 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
25160 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
25161 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25162 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
25163 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
25164 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
25165 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
25166 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
25169 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
25170 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
25171 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
25172 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
25173 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
25174 Implements ticket 9574.
25177 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
25178 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
25179 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25180 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
25181 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
25182 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
25183 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
25184 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
25185 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
25186 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
25187 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
25188 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
25192 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
25193 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
25194 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
25195 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
25197 o Minor fixes (config options):
25198 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
25199 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
25200 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
25201 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
25202 message is logged at notice, not at info.
25203 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
25204 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
25205 or we just won't work.)
25208 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
25209 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
25210 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
25211 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25214 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
25215 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25216 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
25219 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
25220 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
25221 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25222 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
25223 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25224 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
25225 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
25227 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
25228 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25229 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
25230 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
25233 - Fix an invalid memory read that occurred when a pluggable
25234 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
25235 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25236 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
25237 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
25238 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
25239 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
25240 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
25241 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
25242 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
25243 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25244 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
25245 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
25248 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25251 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
25252 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
25253 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
25254 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
25257 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
25258 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
25259 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
25262 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
25263 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
25264 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
25267 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
25268 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
25269 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25272 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
25273 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
25274 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
25275 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
25276 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
25277 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25279 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
25280 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
25281 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
25282 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
25283 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
25284 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
25286 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
25287 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
25288 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25291 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
25292 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
25293 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
25294 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
25295 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
25297 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
25298 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
25299 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
25300 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
25301 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
25302 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
25303 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
25305 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
25306 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
25307 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
25309 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
25310 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
25314 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
25315 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
25316 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
25318 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
25319 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
25320 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
25321 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
25322 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
25323 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
25325 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
25326 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
25327 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
25328 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
25329 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
25330 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
25331 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
25334 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
25335 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
25336 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
25337 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
25338 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
25339 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
25340 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
25341 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
25342 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25343 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
25344 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
25345 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25346 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
25347 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
25349 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
25350 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
25351 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
25352 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
25355 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
25356 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
25357 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
25358 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
25359 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
25360 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
25362 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
25363 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
25367 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
25368 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
25369 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
25370 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
25371 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
25372 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
25373 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25375 o Removed documentation:
25376 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
25377 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
25379 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25380 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
25381 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
25382 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
25385 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
25386 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
25387 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
25388 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
25389 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
25390 variety of other issues.
25393 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
25394 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
25395 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
25396 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
25397 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
25398 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25399 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
25400 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
25402 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
25403 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
25404 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
25406 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
25407 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
25408 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
25409 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
25410 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
25411 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
25412 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
25414 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
25415 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
25416 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
25417 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
25418 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
25419 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
25420 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
25421 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25422 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
25423 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
25424 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
25425 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
25426 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25427 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
25428 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
25429 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
25430 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
25431 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
25432 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
25433 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
25434 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
25436 o Major bugfixes (other):
25437 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
25438 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
25439 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
25440 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25443 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
25444 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
25445 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
25446 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
25448 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
25449 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
25451 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25453 o Minor features (build):
25454 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
25455 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
25457 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
25458 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
25460 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
25461 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
25462 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
25465 o Minor bugfixes (build):
25466 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
25467 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
25468 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25469 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
25470 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
25471 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
25472 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
25473 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
25474 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25475 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
25476 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
25477 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
25478 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
25481 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
25482 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
25483 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
25484 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
25485 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
25486 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
25487 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
25488 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
25489 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
25490 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
25491 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
25492 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
25493 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
25494 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25495 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25497 o Minor bugfixes (other):
25498 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
25499 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25500 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
25501 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
25502 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
25503 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
25504 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25505 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
25506 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
25507 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
25508 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
25509 Should help resolve bug 8235.
25510 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
25511 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
25512 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
25513 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25515 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
25516 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
25517 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
25518 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
25519 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
25520 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
25521 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
25522 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
25525 o Minor bugfixes (config):
25526 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
25527 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
25529 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
25530 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
25531 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
25532 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
25533 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
25534 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
25535 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25536 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
25537 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
25538 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
25539 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
25540 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
25541 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25542 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
25543 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
25546 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
25547 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
25548 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
25549 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
25550 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
25551 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
25552 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
25553 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
25555 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
25556 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
25557 or at least make it more diagnosable.
25558 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
25559 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
25560 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
25561 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25563 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25564 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
25565 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
25566 the relaxed timeout log message.
25567 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
25568 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
25569 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
25571 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
25572 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
25573 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25574 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
25575 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25576 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
25577 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
25580 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
25581 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
25582 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
25583 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
25584 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
25585 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
25586 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25587 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
25588 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
25589 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
25590 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
25591 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
25592 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
25593 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
25594 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
25595 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
25596 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
25598 o Documentation fixes:
25599 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
25600 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
25601 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
25602 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
25603 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
25604 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
25605 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
25606 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
25609 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
25610 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
25614 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
25615 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
25616 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
25617 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
25619 o Major features (directory authorities):
25620 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
25621 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
25622 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
25623 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
25624 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
25625 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
25626 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
25627 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
25628 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
25629 Implements ticket 8151.
25631 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
25632 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
25633 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
25634 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
25635 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
25637 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25638 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
25639 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
25640 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
25641 whether authentication information is present, causing all
25642 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
25643 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
25645 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
25646 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
25647 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
25648 bugs 1913 and 1992.
25649 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
25650 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
25651 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
25652 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
25653 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
25654 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
25655 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
25656 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
25657 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
25658 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
25659 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
25660 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
25661 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
25662 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
25663 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
25664 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
25665 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
25666 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
25669 o Minor features (portability):
25670 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
25671 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25672 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
25673 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
25674 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
25675 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
25676 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
25677 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25679 o Minor features (other):
25680 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
25681 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
25682 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
25683 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
25684 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
25685 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
25686 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
25687 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
25689 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25691 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25692 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
25693 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
25694 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
25695 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
25696 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25697 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
25698 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
25699 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
25700 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
25702 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
25703 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
25704 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
25705 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25707 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25708 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
25709 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
25710 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
25711 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
25712 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
25713 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
25715 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
25716 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
25717 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
25718 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
25719 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
25721 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
25722 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
25723 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
25724 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
25726 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25727 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
25728 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
25731 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
25732 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
25733 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
25734 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
25736 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
25737 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
25738 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
25739 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25741 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
25742 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
25743 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
25744 this is CID 718634.
25745 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
25746 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
25747 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
25748 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
25750 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
25751 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
25752 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25753 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
25754 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
25755 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
25756 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
25758 o Code simplification and refactoring:
25759 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
25763 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
25764 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
25765 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
25766 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
25767 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
25770 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
25771 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
25772 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
25773 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25775 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
25776 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
25777 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
25781 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
25782 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
25783 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
25784 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
25785 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
25786 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
25787 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
25788 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
25789 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
25790 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25791 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
25792 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
25793 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
25796 o Major features (relay):
25797 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
25798 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
25799 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
25800 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
25801 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
25802 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
25803 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
25805 o Major features (portability):
25806 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
25807 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
25808 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
25809 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
25810 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25813 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
25814 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
25815 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
25816 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
25817 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
25818 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
25820 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
25821 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
25822 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
25823 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
25824 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
25825 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
25826 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
25827 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
25829 o Minor features (path selection):
25830 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
25831 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
25832 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
25833 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
25834 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
25835 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
25836 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
25837 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
25838 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
25839 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
25840 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
25841 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
25842 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
25843 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
25844 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
25845 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
25846 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
25847 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
25848 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
25850 o Minor features (log messages):
25851 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
25852 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
25853 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
25854 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
25857 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
25858 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
25859 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
25860 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
25861 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
25862 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
25863 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
25864 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
25865 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
25866 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25867 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
25868 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
25870 o Build improvements:
25871 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
25872 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
25873 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
25874 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
25875 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
25876 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
25877 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
25878 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
25879 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
25880 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
25881 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
25882 than to perform erroneously.
25884 o Removed features:
25885 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
25886 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
25887 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
25889 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
25890 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
25891 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
25894 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25895 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
25897 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
25898 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
25902 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
25903 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
25904 work more robustly.
25907 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
25908 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
25909 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
25913 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
25914 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
25915 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
25916 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
25919 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
25920 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
25921 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
25922 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
25923 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
25924 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
25925 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
25926 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
25927 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
25928 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
25929 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
25930 closes ticket 7199.
25932 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
25933 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
25934 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
25935 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
25936 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
25937 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
25938 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
25939 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
25940 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
25941 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
25942 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
25944 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
25945 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
25946 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
25948 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
25949 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
25950 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
25952 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
25954 o Major features (better link encryption):
25955 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
25956 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
25957 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
25958 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
25959 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
25960 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
25963 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
25964 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
25965 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
25966 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
25967 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
25968 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
25969 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
25971 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
25972 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
25973 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
25974 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
25976 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
25979 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
25980 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
25981 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
25984 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
25985 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
25986 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
25987 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
25988 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
25989 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
25990 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
25991 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
25992 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
25994 o Minor features (testing):
25995 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
25996 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
25997 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
25999 o Minor features (path bias detection):
26000 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
26001 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
26002 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
26003 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
26004 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
26005 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
26006 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
26007 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
26008 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
26009 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
26010 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
26011 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
26012 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
26013 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
26014 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
26015 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
26016 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
26017 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
26018 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
26019 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
26020 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
26021 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
26022 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
26023 detection capability loss.
26025 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26026 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
26027 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
26028 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
26029 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
26030 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
26031 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
26032 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
26035 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26036 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
26037 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
26038 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
26039 and the different handshakes it supports.
26040 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
26041 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
26042 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
26043 any encoding is overkill.
26046 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
26047 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
26048 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
26049 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
26050 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
26051 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
26052 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
26053 and fixes a variety of other issues.
26055 o Major features (client resilience):
26056 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
26057 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
26058 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
26059 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
26060 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
26061 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
26062 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
26063 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
26064 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
26065 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
26066 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
26067 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
26068 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
26069 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
26070 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
26072 o Major features (IPv6):
26073 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
26074 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
26075 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
26076 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
26077 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
26078 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
26079 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
26080 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
26082 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
26083 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
26085 o Major features (geoip database):
26086 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
26087 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
26088 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
26089 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
26090 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
26091 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
26092 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
26093 Country database, as modified above.
26095 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
26096 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
26097 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
26098 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
26099 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
26100 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
26101 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
26102 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
26103 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
26104 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
26105 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
26106 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
26107 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
26108 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
26109 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
26110 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
26111 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
26114 o Major bugfixes (other):
26115 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
26116 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
26117 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
26118 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
26119 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
26120 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
26121 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
26122 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
26124 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
26125 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
26128 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
26129 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
26130 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
26131 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
26132 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
26133 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
26134 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
26135 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
26137 o Minor features (IPv6):
26138 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
26139 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
26140 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
26141 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
26142 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
26143 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
26144 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
26145 connect to the wrong addresses.
26146 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
26147 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
26148 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
26149 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
26153 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
26154 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
26155 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
26156 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
26157 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
26158 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
26159 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
26161 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
26162 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
26163 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
26166 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
26167 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
26169 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26170 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
26171 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
26172 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
26173 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
26176 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
26177 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
26178 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
26179 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
26180 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
26181 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
26182 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
26183 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
26185 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
26186 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
26187 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
26188 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
26189 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
26190 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
26191 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
26192 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
26193 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
26194 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
26195 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
26198 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
26199 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
26200 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
26201 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
26202 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
26203 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
26204 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
26205 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
26206 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
26207 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
26210 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
26211 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
26215 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
26216 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
26217 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
26218 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
26221 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
26222 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
26224 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
26225 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
26226 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
26227 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
26228 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
26229 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
26230 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
26231 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
26232 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
26233 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
26236 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
26238 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
26239 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
26240 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
26241 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
26242 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
26245 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
26246 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
26247 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26248 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
26249 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
26251 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
26252 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26253 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
26254 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
26255 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
26256 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
26257 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
26259 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
26260 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26261 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
26262 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
26263 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
26264 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26265 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
26266 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
26268 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26269 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
26270 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
26271 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
26272 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
26273 present the same extensions.)
26276 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
26277 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
26278 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
26279 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
26280 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
26282 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26283 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26284 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26285 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26287 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26288 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26289 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26290 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26292 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26293 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26294 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26295 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26296 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26297 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26298 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26299 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26300 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26302 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
26303 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26304 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26305 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26306 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26309 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
26310 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
26311 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
26313 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26314 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
26316 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
26317 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
26321 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
26322 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
26323 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
26324 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
26327 o Major bugfixes (security):
26328 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
26329 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
26330 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
26332 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
26333 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
26334 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
26335 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
26338 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
26339 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
26340 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
26341 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
26342 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
26343 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
26344 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
26345 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26348 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
26349 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
26350 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
26351 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26354 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
26355 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26356 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
26357 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
26358 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
26359 scheduling algorithms.
26361 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26362 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26363 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26365 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26366 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26367 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26368 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26369 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26370 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26371 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26372 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26373 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26374 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26375 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26377 o Internal abstraction features:
26378 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
26379 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
26380 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
26381 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
26382 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
26383 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
26384 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
26385 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
26386 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
26387 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
26388 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
26389 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
26390 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
26391 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
26392 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
26393 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
26394 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
26396 o Required libraries:
26397 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
26398 strongly recommended.
26401 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
26402 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
26403 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
26404 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
26405 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
26406 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
26407 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
26408 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
26409 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
26411 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
26412 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
26413 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
26414 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26415 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26416 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26417 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26418 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26419 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26420 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26421 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26422 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26423 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26424 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26425 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
26428 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
26429 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
26430 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
26431 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
26432 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
26433 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
26434 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
26435 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
26436 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
26437 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
26438 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
26439 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
26440 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
26441 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
26442 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26443 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
26444 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
26445 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
26446 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
26448 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
26449 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
26450 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
26451 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
26452 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
26453 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
26454 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
26457 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
26458 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
26459 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
26460 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
26462 o New directory authorities:
26463 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
26464 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
26466 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
26467 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
26468 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
26469 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
26470 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
26471 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
26472 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
26473 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
26474 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
26475 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
26476 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
26479 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26480 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26481 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26483 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
26484 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
26485 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
26486 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26487 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26488 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26489 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26490 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
26491 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
26493 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
26494 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
26495 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
26496 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
26497 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
26498 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
26499 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
26500 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
26501 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
26502 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
26503 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26504 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26505 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26506 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26507 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26508 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26509 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26510 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26512 o Documentation fixes:
26513 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26516 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
26517 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26518 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
26519 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
26522 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26523 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26524 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26527 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
26528 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
26529 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
26530 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
26531 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
26532 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
26533 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
26534 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26536 o Security features:
26537 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
26538 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
26539 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
26540 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
26541 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
26542 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
26543 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
26544 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
26545 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
26549 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
26550 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
26551 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
26554 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
26555 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
26556 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26557 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
26558 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
26559 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
26560 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
26561 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
26562 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
26563 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
26564 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26565 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
26566 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
26567 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
26569 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
26570 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26571 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
26572 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
26573 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26575 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
26576 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
26577 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
26578 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26579 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
26580 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
26581 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26582 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
26583 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
26584 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
26585 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
26586 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
26587 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
26588 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
26589 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
26590 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
26591 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
26592 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
26593 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
26594 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
26596 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26597 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
26598 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
26599 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
26600 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
26601 testable, and a little less fragile too.
26602 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
26603 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
26605 o Documentation fixes:
26606 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
26607 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
26611 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
26612 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
26616 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26617 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26618 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26621 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26622 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26626 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
26627 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
26631 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
26632 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
26633 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26634 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26635 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26636 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26637 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26641 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
26642 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
26643 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
26644 log messages less noisy.
26647 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
26648 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
26652 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
26653 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
26654 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
26655 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
26656 last time we raised it).
26659 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
26660 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
26662 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
26663 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
26664 part of ticket 6736.
26665 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
26666 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
26667 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
26671 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
26672 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
26673 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
26674 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
26675 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
26677 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
26678 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
26679 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
26680 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
26681 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26682 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
26683 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
26684 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26685 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
26686 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26687 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
26688 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
26690 o Removed features:
26691 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
26692 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
26693 bunch of compatibility code.
26695 o Code refactoring:
26696 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
26697 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
26698 the ORPort and the DirPort.
26701 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
26702 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
26703 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
26704 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
26706 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
26707 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
26708 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
26710 o Major features (bridges):
26711 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
26712 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
26713 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
26716 o Major features (IPv6):
26717 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
26718 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
26719 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
26720 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
26721 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
26722 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
26723 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
26724 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
26725 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
26727 o Major features (build):
26728 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
26729 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
26730 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
26731 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
26732 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
26733 fixes by Jim Meyering.
26734 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
26735 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
26736 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
26738 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
26739 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
26740 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
26741 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
26742 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
26743 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
26744 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
26745 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
26746 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
26747 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
26748 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
26750 o Minor features (streamlining);
26751 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
26752 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
26754 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
26755 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
26756 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
26757 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
26758 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
26759 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26761 o Minor features (controller):
26762 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
26764 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
26765 Implements ticket 4971.
26767 o Minor features (IPv6):
26768 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
26769 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
26770 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
26771 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
26772 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
26774 o Minor features (log messages):
26775 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
26776 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
26777 Resolves ticket 6758.
26778 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
26779 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
26780 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
26781 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26782 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
26783 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
26784 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
26786 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
26787 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
26788 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
26789 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26790 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
26793 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
26794 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
26795 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
26796 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
26797 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
26799 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
26800 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
26801 Implements ticket 5529.
26802 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
26803 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
26804 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
26805 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
26806 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
26807 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
26808 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
26809 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
26810 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
26811 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
26813 o New requirements:
26814 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
26815 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
26816 from a source distribution.)
26819 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
26820 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26821 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
26822 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
26823 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
26824 and cleans up other smaller issues.
26826 o Major bugfixes (security):
26827 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
26828 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
26829 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
26830 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
26831 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
26832 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
26833 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
26834 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
26835 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
26836 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
26837 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
26838 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
26839 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
26840 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
26841 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
26842 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
26846 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
26847 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
26848 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
26849 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26850 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
26851 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
26852 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
26853 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
26854 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
26855 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26858 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
26859 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
26860 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
26861 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
26862 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
26863 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
26864 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
26865 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
26866 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
26867 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
26868 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
26870 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
26871 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
26872 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
26874 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
26875 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
26876 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
26877 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
26878 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
26879 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
26880 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
26881 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
26882 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
26883 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
26884 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
26885 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
26886 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
26887 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
26890 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
26891 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
26892 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
26893 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
26894 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
26895 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
26896 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
26897 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
26898 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
26899 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
26900 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
26901 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
26902 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
26903 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
26904 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
26907 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
26908 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
26909 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
26910 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
26911 Resolves ticket 6732.
26914 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
26915 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
26916 attack that could in theory leak path information.
26919 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26920 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26921 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26922 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26923 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26924 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26925 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26926 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26927 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26928 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26929 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26930 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26931 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26932 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26935 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
26936 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
26937 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
26938 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
26941 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
26942 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
26943 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26944 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
26945 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
26946 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
26947 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
26948 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
26949 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
26950 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
26951 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
26952 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
26953 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
26954 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
26955 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
26956 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
26957 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
26960 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
26961 a little more useful.
26962 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
26963 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26964 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
26965 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
26966 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
26967 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
26968 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
26971 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
26972 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
26973 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
26974 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
26975 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
26976 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
26980 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
26981 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
26982 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
26983 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
26984 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
26987 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
26988 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
26989 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
26992 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
26994 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
26996 o Code simplification and refactoring:
26997 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
26998 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
26999 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
27000 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
27003 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
27004 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
27005 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
27006 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
27007 since the beginning of Tor.
27010 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
27011 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
27012 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
27013 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
27014 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
27015 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
27016 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
27017 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
27018 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
27019 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
27022 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
27023 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
27026 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
27027 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
27028 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
27029 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
27032 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
27033 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27034 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
27035 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
27036 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
27037 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
27039 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27040 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
27041 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
27042 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
27043 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
27044 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
27045 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27046 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
27047 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
27048 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
27049 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
27050 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
27051 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
27052 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
27053 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
27054 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
27055 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27056 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
27057 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
27059 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27060 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
27061 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
27063 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
27064 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27065 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
27066 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
27068 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
27069 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27070 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
27071 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27072 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
27073 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
27074 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27075 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
27076 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27077 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
27078 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
27079 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
27080 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
27081 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
27082 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
27083 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
27086 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
27087 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
27088 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
27089 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
27090 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
27093 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
27094 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
27095 options. Closes bug 4748.
27098 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
27099 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
27100 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
27101 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
27102 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
27106 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
27107 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
27109 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
27110 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
27111 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
27112 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
27113 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
27114 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
27115 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
27116 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
27117 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
27120 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
27121 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
27122 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
27123 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
27124 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
27125 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
27126 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
27127 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
27130 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
27131 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
27132 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
27133 case for flushing marked connections.
27134 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
27135 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
27136 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
27137 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
27138 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
27139 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
27140 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27141 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
27142 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27143 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
27144 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
27145 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
27146 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
27147 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
27148 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
27149 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
27150 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27151 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
27152 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
27153 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
27154 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
27155 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
27156 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27157 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
27158 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
27160 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
27161 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
27162 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
27166 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
27167 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
27168 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
27169 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
27170 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
27171 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
27172 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
27173 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
27174 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
27175 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
27176 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
27177 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
27178 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
27179 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
27180 Addresses ticket 5458.
27181 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27183 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27184 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
27185 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
27188 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
27189 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
27190 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
27194 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
27195 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
27196 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
27197 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
27198 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
27199 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
27200 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27201 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
27202 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
27203 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
27204 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27207 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27208 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27211 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27212 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27215 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
27216 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
27217 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
27218 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
27219 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27221 o Major bugfixes (general):
27222 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
27223 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
27224 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
27225 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
27226 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
27227 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
27228 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27229 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
27230 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
27232 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
27233 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
27234 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
27235 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
27238 o Major bugfixes (clients):
27239 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
27240 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
27241 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
27242 which introduced predicted ports.
27243 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
27244 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
27245 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
27246 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27247 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
27248 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
27249 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
27250 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
27251 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
27252 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
27253 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
27254 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
27255 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
27257 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
27258 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
27259 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
27260 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
27261 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
27262 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
27263 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
27264 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
27265 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
27266 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
27267 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
27271 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
27272 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
27273 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
27274 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
27275 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
27276 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
27277 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
27278 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
27279 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
27280 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
27281 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
27282 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
27283 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
27284 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
27286 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
27287 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
27288 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
27289 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
27290 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
27291 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
27292 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
27293 sure. Closes bug 5139.
27294 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
27295 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
27296 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
27297 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
27298 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
27299 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
27300 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27302 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
27303 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27304 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27305 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27306 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27307 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27308 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27309 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27310 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27311 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27312 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27313 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27314 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27315 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27316 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27317 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27318 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27319 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27320 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27321 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27323 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27324 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
27325 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
27326 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
27327 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
27328 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
27329 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
27330 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
27331 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
27332 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
27333 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
27334 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
27335 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
27337 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
27338 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
27339 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
27340 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
27342 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
27343 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
27344 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27345 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
27346 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
27347 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27348 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
27349 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
27350 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
27351 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
27353 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
27354 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
27355 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
27357 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27358 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
27359 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
27360 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
27361 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
27362 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
27363 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
27364 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
27365 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
27366 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
27367 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
27368 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
27369 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
27370 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
27371 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
27372 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27373 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
27374 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
27375 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
27376 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
27378 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
27379 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
27380 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
27381 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
27382 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
27383 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
27385 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
27386 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
27387 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
27389 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
27390 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
27391 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27392 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27393 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
27394 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27396 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27397 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
27398 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
27400 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
27401 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
27402 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27403 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
27404 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
27405 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27406 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
27407 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
27408 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
27409 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27410 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
27411 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
27412 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
27413 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
27414 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
27415 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
27417 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
27418 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
27419 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27420 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
27421 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
27422 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27423 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
27424 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27425 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
27426 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27427 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
27428 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27429 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
27432 o Documentation fixes:
27433 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
27434 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
27435 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
27436 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
27437 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
27438 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
27441 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
27442 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
27446 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
27447 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
27448 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
27449 and fixes several crash bugs.
27451 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
27452 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
27453 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
27454 those packages and upgrade anyway.
27456 o Directory authority changes:
27457 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27458 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27462 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27463 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27464 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27465 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27466 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27467 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27468 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27469 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27470 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27471 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27472 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27473 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27474 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27475 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27476 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27477 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27478 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27479 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27480 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27481 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27482 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27483 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27484 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27485 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27486 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27487 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27488 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
27491 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27492 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27493 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27494 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27496 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27497 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27499 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27500 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27501 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27502 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27503 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
27504 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27505 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27506 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27509 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
27510 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
27511 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
27512 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
27513 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
27514 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
27515 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
27516 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
27517 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
27518 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
27519 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
27520 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
27521 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
27522 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
27523 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
27524 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
27525 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
27526 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
27527 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
27528 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
27529 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27530 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27531 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27532 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27533 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27534 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27535 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27536 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27537 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27538 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27539 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27540 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27541 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27542 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27543 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27544 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
27545 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
27546 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
27547 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27548 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27549 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
27550 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
27551 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
27552 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
27553 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
27554 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
27556 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
27557 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
27558 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
27559 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27560 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27561 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27562 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27563 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27564 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27565 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27566 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27567 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
27568 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27569 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
27570 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
27573 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27574 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27575 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27576 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27578 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27581 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
27582 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
27583 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
27584 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
27585 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
27586 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
27587 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
27590 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
27591 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
27592 the development branch build on Windows again.
27594 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27595 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
27596 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
27597 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
27598 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
27599 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
27600 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
27601 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
27602 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
27603 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
27604 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
27605 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
27606 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
27607 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
27608 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
27610 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27611 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
27612 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
27613 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27614 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
27615 and 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27616 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
27617 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
27618 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
27619 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
27620 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
27621 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27624 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
27625 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
27626 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
27627 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
27628 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
27629 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
27630 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
27631 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
27632 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
27634 o Removed features:
27635 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
27636 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
27637 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
27638 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
27642 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
27643 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
27644 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
27645 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
27647 o Directory authority changes:
27648 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
27652 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
27653 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
27654 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
27655 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
27657 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
27658 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
27659 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
27660 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
27661 documents entirely.
27662 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
27663 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
27664 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27666 o Major features (performance):
27667 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
27668 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
27669 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
27670 much faster than other AES implementations.
27672 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
27673 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
27674 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
27675 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
27676 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
27677 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
27678 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
27679 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
27680 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
27681 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
27682 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
27683 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
27684 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
27685 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
27686 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
27687 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
27688 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
27689 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
27691 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
27692 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
27693 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
27694 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27695 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
27696 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27697 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
27698 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
27699 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
27701 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
27702 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
27703 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27704 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
27705 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
27706 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
27709 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
27710 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
27711 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
27712 please let us know about it.
27713 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
27714 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
27715 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
27716 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
27717 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27718 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27719 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
27720 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
27722 o Default torrc changes:
27723 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
27724 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
27726 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
27727 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
27728 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
27731 o Removed features:
27732 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
27733 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
27734 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
27735 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
27737 o Code refactoring:
27738 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
27739 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
27740 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
27741 it would be a bad idea to start.
27744 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
27745 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
27746 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
27747 that get us closer to a release candidate.
27749 o Directory authority changes:
27750 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
27753 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
27754 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
27755 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
27756 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
27757 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
27758 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
27759 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
27760 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
27761 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
27762 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
27763 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
27764 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
27765 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
27766 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
27767 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
27768 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
27770 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
27771 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
27772 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
27773 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
27774 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
27775 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27776 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
27777 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
27778 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27779 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
27780 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
27781 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
27783 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
27784 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
27785 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27786 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
27787 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
27789 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
27790 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
27791 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
27792 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
27793 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
27794 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
27795 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
27796 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
27797 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
27798 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
27799 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
27800 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
27801 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
27802 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
27803 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
27804 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
27805 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
27806 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
27807 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
27808 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
27809 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
27810 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
27813 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
27814 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
27815 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27816 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
27817 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
27818 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
27819 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
27820 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
27821 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
27822 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
27823 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
27824 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
27825 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
27826 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
27827 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
27828 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
27829 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
27832 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
27833 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
27834 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27837 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
27838 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
27839 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
27840 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
27843 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
27844 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
27846 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
27847 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
27848 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
27849 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
27850 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
27851 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
27852 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
27853 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
27854 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
27855 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
27856 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
27857 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
27860 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
27861 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
27862 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
27863 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
27864 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
27865 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
27866 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
27869 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
27870 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
27871 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
27872 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
27873 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
27874 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
27875 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
27876 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
27877 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
27878 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
27880 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
27881 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
27882 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
27883 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
27884 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
27885 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
27886 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
27887 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
27888 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
27891 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
27892 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
27893 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
27897 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
27898 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
27899 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
27900 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
27901 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
27902 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
27905 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
27906 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
27907 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
27908 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
27909 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
27910 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
27911 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
27912 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
27914 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
27915 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
27916 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
27917 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
27918 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
27919 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
27920 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
27921 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
27923 o Major security workaround:
27924 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
27925 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
27926 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
27927 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
27928 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
27929 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
27930 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
27931 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
27932 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
27933 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
27934 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
27937 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
27938 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
27939 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
27940 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
27941 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
27942 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
27943 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
27944 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
27945 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
27946 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
27947 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
27948 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
27949 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
27951 o Minor features (controller):
27952 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
27953 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
27954 file. Resolves bug 1101.
27955 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
27956 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
27957 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
27958 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
27959 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
27960 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
27962 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
27963 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
27964 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
27965 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
27966 part of ticket 3457.
27967 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
27968 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
27969 circuit-status' control-port command.
27971 o Minor features (directory authorities):
27972 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
27973 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
27974 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
27975 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
27977 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
27978 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
27979 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
27980 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
27981 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
27982 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
27983 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
27985 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
27986 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
27988 o Minor features (other):
27989 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
27990 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
27991 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
27992 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
27993 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
27994 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
27995 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
27996 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
27998 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
27999 them from the other auths.
28000 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
28001 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
28002 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
28003 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
28004 the 0.2.3.x series.
28005 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28007 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
28008 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
28009 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
28010 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
28011 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
28012 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
28013 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
28014 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
28015 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
28016 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
28017 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28018 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
28019 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
28020 be disabled using the new
28021 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
28022 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
28023 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
28024 had its introduction cell acknowledged by the introduction-point
28025 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
28026 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
28027 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
28028 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
28029 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
28030 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
28031 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
28032 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
28034 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
28035 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
28036 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
28039 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
28040 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
28041 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
28043 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
28044 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
28045 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
28046 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
28047 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28048 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
28049 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
28051 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
28052 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
28053 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
28054 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
28055 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
28056 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
28057 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
28058 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
28060 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
28061 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
28062 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
28063 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
28064 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
28065 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
28066 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
28067 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
28068 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
28071 o Minor bugfixes (other):
28072 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
28073 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
28074 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
28075 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
28076 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
28077 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
28078 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
28079 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28080 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
28081 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
28082 accidentally been reverted.
28083 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
28084 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
28085 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
28086 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
28087 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
28088 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
28089 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
28090 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
28091 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
28092 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28093 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
28094 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
28095 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
28096 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
28097 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28098 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
28099 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
28100 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
28101 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
28104 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
28105 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
28106 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
28107 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
28108 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
28109 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
28110 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
28112 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28113 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
28114 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
28115 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
28116 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
28117 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
28118 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
28120 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
28121 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
28122 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
28123 invalid value, rather than just -1.
28124 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
28125 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
28126 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
28127 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
28128 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
28129 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
28130 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
28134 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
28135 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
28136 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
28138 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
28139 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
28140 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
28141 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
28142 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
28143 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
28144 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
28145 (which Tor does not do by default).
28147 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
28148 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
28149 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
28150 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
28151 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
28153 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
28157 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28158 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28159 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28160 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28163 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
28164 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
28165 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
28166 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
28167 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
28168 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
28169 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
28170 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
28171 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
28172 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
28173 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
28176 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28179 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
28180 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
28181 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
28183 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
28184 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
28185 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
28186 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
28187 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
28188 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
28189 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
28190 (which Tor does not do by default).
28192 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
28193 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
28194 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
28195 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
28196 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
28198 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
28199 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
28200 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
28203 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
28204 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
28205 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
28206 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
28207 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
28209 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
28210 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
28213 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28214 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28215 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28216 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28217 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28218 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28219 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28220 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28222 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28223 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28224 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28225 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28226 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28227 close based on processing a cell on it.
28228 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28229 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28230 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28231 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28232 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28233 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28234 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28235 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
28236 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
28237 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
28238 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28239 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28240 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28241 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28242 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
28245 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28246 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28247 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28248 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28249 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28250 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28251 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28253 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28254 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28255 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28256 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28257 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28258 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28259 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28260 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28261 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28262 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28263 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28264 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28265 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28266 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28267 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
28268 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
28269 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
28270 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
28271 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28272 Reported by "troll_un".
28273 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28274 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28275 Reported by "troll_un".
28276 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28277 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28278 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28279 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28282 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28283 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28284 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28285 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28286 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28287 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28288 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28289 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28290 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28291 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28292 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28294 o Packaging changes:
28295 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28296 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28299 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
28300 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28301 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28302 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28303 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28305 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
28306 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
28308 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28309 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28310 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28311 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28312 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28313 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
28314 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
28315 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
28316 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
28319 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28322 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
28323 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
28324 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
28325 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
28326 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
28327 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
28328 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
28331 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
28332 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
28333 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
28334 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
28335 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
28336 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
28337 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
28338 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
28339 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
28340 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
28341 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
28342 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
28343 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
28344 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
28345 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
28346 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
28347 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
28348 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
28349 Resolves ticket 4526.
28350 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
28351 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
28352 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
28353 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
28354 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
28355 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
28356 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
28357 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
28358 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
28359 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
28360 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
28361 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
28362 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
28363 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
28364 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
28365 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
28368 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
28369 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
28370 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
28371 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
28372 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
28373 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
28374 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
28375 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
28376 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
28377 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
28379 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
28380 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
28381 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
28382 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
28383 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
28384 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
28385 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
28386 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
28387 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
28389 o Minor features (new/different config options):
28390 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
28391 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
28392 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
28393 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
28394 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
28395 Implements issue 933.
28396 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
28397 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
28398 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
28399 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
28400 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
28401 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
28402 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
28403 appending to the list.
28404 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
28405 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
28406 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
28407 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
28409 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
28410 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
28411 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
28412 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
28413 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
28414 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
28415 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
28416 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
28419 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
28420 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
28421 Resolves ticket 2474.
28422 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
28423 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
28424 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
28425 Required by fix for bug 3460.
28426 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
28427 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
28428 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
28429 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
28430 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
28431 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
28432 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
28433 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
28434 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
28436 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28437 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
28438 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
28440 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
28442 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
28443 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
28445 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
28446 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
28447 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
28448 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
28449 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
28450 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
28451 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
28453 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
28454 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
28455 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28456 Reported by "troll_un".
28457 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
28458 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28459 Reported by "troll_un".
28460 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
28461 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
28462 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
28463 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
28465 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
28466 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
28468 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
28469 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
28470 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
28471 with help from wanoskarnet.
28472 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
28473 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
28476 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
28477 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
28478 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
28479 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28481 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
28482 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
28483 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
28484 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
28485 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
28486 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
28487 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
28488 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
28491 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
28492 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
28493 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
28494 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
28495 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
28496 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
28497 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
28498 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
28499 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
28502 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
28503 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
28504 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
28505 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
28507 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
28508 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
28509 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
28510 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
28511 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
28512 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
28513 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
28514 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
28515 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
28516 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
28517 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
28518 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
28519 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
28520 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
28521 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
28522 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
28523 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
28524 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
28525 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
28526 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
28527 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
28528 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
28529 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
28530 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
28533 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
28534 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
28535 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
28536 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
28537 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
28538 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28539 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
28540 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
28543 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28544 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
28545 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
28546 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
28547 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
28548 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
28549 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
28550 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
28551 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
28552 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
28553 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
28554 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
28555 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
28556 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
28557 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
28559 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
28560 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
28561 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
28562 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
28563 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
28564 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
28565 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
28566 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28567 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
28568 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
28569 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
28570 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
28571 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
28572 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28573 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
28574 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
28575 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
28577 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28578 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
28579 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
28580 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
28581 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28582 Found by frosty_un.
28583 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
28584 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
28585 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
28587 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
28588 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
28589 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
28591 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
28592 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
28594 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
28595 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28598 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
28599 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
28600 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
28601 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
28602 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
28603 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
28604 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
28605 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
28606 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
28607 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
28608 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
28609 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
28610 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
28611 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
28613 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
28614 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
28615 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28617 o Packaging changes:
28618 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
28619 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
28621 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28622 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
28623 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
28624 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
28625 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
28626 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
28627 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
28628 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
28629 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
28632 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
28634 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
28635 ./src/test/bench binary.
28636 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
28637 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
28640 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
28641 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
28642 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
28646 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
28647 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
28648 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
28649 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
28650 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
28651 close based on processing a cell on it.
28652 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
28653 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
28654 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
28655 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
28656 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
28657 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
28658 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
28659 cells were introduced.
28662 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
28663 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
28666 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
28667 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
28668 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
28669 users. Everybody should upgrade.
28671 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
28672 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
28675 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
28676 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
28677 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
28678 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
28679 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
28680 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
28682 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28683 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28684 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28685 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28686 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28687 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28688 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28689 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28690 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28691 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28692 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28693 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28694 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28695 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28696 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28697 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28698 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28699 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28702 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
28703 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
28704 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
28705 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
28706 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
28707 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
28708 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
28709 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
28710 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
28711 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
28712 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
28713 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
28714 Partly fixes bug 3825.
28715 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28716 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28717 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28718 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28719 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28720 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28721 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28723 o Major bugfixes (other):
28724 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28725 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28726 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28727 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28728 Found by "frosty_un".
28729 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
28730 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
28731 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
28732 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
28733 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
28734 immensely in tracking this bug down.
28735 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28736 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28739 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
28740 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28741 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28742 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28743 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28744 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28745 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
28746 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
28747 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28748 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28749 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28750 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28751 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28752 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28753 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28754 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28755 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28756 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28757 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28758 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28759 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28761 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
28762 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
28763 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
28764 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
28765 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
28766 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
28767 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
28768 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
28769 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
28770 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
28771 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
28774 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
28775 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
28776 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
28777 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
28778 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28779 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28780 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28781 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28782 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
28783 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
28784 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
28785 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
28786 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
28787 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28789 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
28790 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
28791 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
28792 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
28793 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
28794 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
28795 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
28796 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
28799 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
28800 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
28801 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
28803 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
28804 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
28805 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
28806 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
28807 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
28808 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
28809 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
28810 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
28811 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
28812 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
28813 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
28814 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
28815 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
28817 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
28818 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
28819 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
28820 currently connected to them.
28822 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
28823 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
28824 remain; see for example proposal 188.
28826 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
28827 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28828 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28829 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28830 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28831 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28832 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28833 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28834 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28835 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28836 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28837 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
28838 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
28839 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
28840 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
28841 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
28842 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
28843 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
28846 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
28847 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
28848 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
28849 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
28850 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
28851 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
28852 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
28853 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
28854 when bridges were introduced.
28855 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28856 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28857 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28858 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28859 Found by "frosty_un".
28862 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
28863 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
28865 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
28866 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
28867 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
28868 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
28869 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
28870 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
28871 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
28874 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
28875 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
28876 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
28877 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
28878 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
28879 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
28880 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
28881 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
28882 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
28883 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
28884 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
28885 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
28886 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
28887 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
28888 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
28889 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
28890 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
28891 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
28893 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
28894 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
28895 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
28896 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28897 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
28898 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
28899 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
28900 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
28901 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
28902 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
28903 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
28904 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
28907 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
28908 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
28909 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
28910 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
28913 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
28914 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
28915 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
28916 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
28917 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
28919 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28920 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
28921 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
28922 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
28923 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
28924 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
28925 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
28926 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
28927 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
28928 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
28930 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28931 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
28932 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
28933 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
28934 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
28935 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
28936 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
28937 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
28938 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
28939 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
28940 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
28941 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
28942 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
28943 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
28944 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28945 Found by "frosty_un".
28946 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
28947 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
28948 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
28949 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
28950 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
28951 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
28952 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
28953 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
28954 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
28955 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
28956 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
28957 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
28958 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
28959 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
28960 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
28961 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
28962 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
28963 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
28964 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
28966 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
28967 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
28968 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
28969 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
28970 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
28971 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
28972 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
28973 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
28975 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
28976 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
28977 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
28978 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
28979 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
28980 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
28981 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
28982 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
28983 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
28984 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
28985 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
28986 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
28988 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
28989 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28990 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
28991 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
28992 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
28993 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
28994 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
28995 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
28996 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
28998 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
29000 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
29001 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
29002 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
29003 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29004 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
29005 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
29006 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
29007 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29009 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
29010 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
29011 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
29012 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
29013 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
29015 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
29016 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
29017 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
29018 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
29019 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29022 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
29023 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
29024 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
29025 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
29026 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
29029 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
29030 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
29031 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
29032 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
29033 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
29034 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
29035 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
29036 when bridges were introduced.
29039 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
29040 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
29041 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29043 o Major features (networking):
29044 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
29045 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
29046 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
29047 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
29048 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
29052 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
29053 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
29054 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
29056 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
29057 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
29058 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
29059 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
29060 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
29062 o Minor features (diagnostics):
29063 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
29064 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
29067 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
29068 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
29069 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
29070 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
29071 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
29072 listed in the network consensus and republish.
29074 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29075 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
29076 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
29077 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
29079 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
29080 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
29081 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
29082 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
29083 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
29084 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
29085 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
29086 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
29087 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
29088 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
29089 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
29091 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29092 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
29093 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
29094 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
29095 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
29096 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
29097 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
29098 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
29099 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
29100 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29102 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29103 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
29104 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
29105 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
29106 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
29107 fixes part of bug 2442.
29108 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
29109 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
29110 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
29112 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
29113 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
29114 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
29115 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
29116 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29118 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
29119 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
29120 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
29121 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
29122 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
29125 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
29126 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
29127 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
29131 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
29132 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
29133 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
29134 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
29135 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
29136 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
29137 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
29140 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
29141 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
29142 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
29143 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
29144 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
29145 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
29146 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
29149 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
29150 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
29151 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
29152 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
29153 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
29154 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
29155 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
29156 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
29157 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29159 o Code refactoring:
29160 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
29161 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
29164 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
29165 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
29166 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
29167 reachable from Iran again.
29170 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
29171 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
29172 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
29174 o Minor features (security):
29175 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
29176 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
29177 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
29178 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
29179 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
29180 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
29181 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
29182 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
29183 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
29184 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
29187 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
29188 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
29189 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
29190 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
29191 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
29192 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
29193 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
29194 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
29195 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29197 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
29198 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
29199 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
29200 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29201 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29202 raised by bug 3898.
29203 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
29204 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
29205 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
29206 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
29207 fixes part of bug 2442.
29208 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
29209 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
29210 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
29212 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
29213 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
29214 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
29215 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
29216 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
29219 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29220 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29221 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
29222 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
29223 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
29224 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
29227 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
29228 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
29229 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
29230 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
29231 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
29232 bufferevent-based networking backend.
29234 o Major features (stream isolation):
29235 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
29236 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
29237 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
29238 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
29239 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
29240 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
29241 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
29242 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
29243 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
29244 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
29245 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
29246 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
29247 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
29248 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
29250 o Major features (other):
29251 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
29252 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
29253 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
29254 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
29255 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
29256 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
29257 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
29258 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
29259 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
29260 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
29261 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
29262 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
29263 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
29265 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29266 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
29268 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
29269 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
29270 Fixes part of bug 3752.
29271 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
29272 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
29273 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
29274 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
29275 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
29276 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
29277 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29278 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
29279 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
29280 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
29281 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
29282 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
29283 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
29284 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
29285 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
29286 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
29287 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
29289 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29290 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29291 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29292 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29293 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29294 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29297 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
29298 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
29299 user. Implements ticket 1692.
29300 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
29301 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
29302 best copy data out of a buffer.
29303 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
29304 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
29305 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
29307 o Minor features (build compatibility):
29308 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
29309 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
29310 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
29312 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29313 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29315 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
29316 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
29317 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
29318 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
29319 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
29320 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
29321 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
29323 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
29324 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
29325 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
29326 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
29327 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
29328 raised by bug 3898.
29329 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
29330 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
29331 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
29334 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
29335 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29336 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29337 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29338 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29339 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29340 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29341 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29342 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29343 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29344 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29345 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29346 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29347 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29348 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29349 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29350 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29351 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29352 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29355 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29356 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
29357 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
29361 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
29362 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
29363 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
29364 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
29365 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
29366 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
29369 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
29370 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
29371 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
29372 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
29373 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
29374 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
29375 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
29376 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
29377 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
29378 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
29380 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
29381 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
29382 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
29383 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
29384 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
29385 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
29386 many many other features and bugfixes.
29389 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
29390 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
29391 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
29394 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
29395 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
29396 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
29397 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
29398 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
29399 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
29400 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
29401 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
29404 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29407 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29408 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29409 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29410 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
29411 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
29412 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
29413 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
29414 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
29415 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
29416 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
29417 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
29418 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
29419 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
29420 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29421 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
29422 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
29423 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
29424 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
29428 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
29429 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
29430 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
29431 up a variety of recently introduced features.
29434 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
29435 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
29436 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
29437 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
29438 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
29439 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
29440 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
29441 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
29442 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
29443 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
29444 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
29445 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
29446 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
29447 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
29448 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
29449 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
29451 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29452 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
29453 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
29454 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
29455 order. Fixes bug 2798.
29456 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
29457 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
29458 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
29459 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
29460 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
29461 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
29465 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
29466 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
29467 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
29468 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
29470 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
29471 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
29472 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
29473 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
29474 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
29475 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
29476 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
29477 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
29478 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
29479 Implements ticket 3264.
29480 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
29481 implements ticket 3439.
29483 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
29484 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
29485 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
29486 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
29487 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
29488 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
29489 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
29490 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
29491 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
29492 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
29493 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
29494 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
29495 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
29496 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
29497 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
29498 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
29499 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
29500 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
29501 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
29502 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
29503 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
29504 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
29505 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
29506 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
29507 fails. Spotted by coverity.
29508 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
29509 present. Found by coverity.
29510 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
29511 a directory cache that provides them.
29513 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
29514 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
29515 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
29516 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
29517 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
29518 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
29520 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
29521 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
29522 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
29523 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
29524 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
29525 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
29526 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
29527 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
29529 o Code simplification and refactoring:
29530 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
29531 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
29532 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
29533 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
29534 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
29535 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
29537 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
29541 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
29542 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
29543 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
29546 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
29547 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
29548 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
29549 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
29552 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
29553 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
29554 discovered by katmagic.
29555 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
29556 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
29557 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
29558 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29559 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
29560 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
29561 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
29562 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
29563 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
29564 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
29565 fixes part of bug 3465.
29566 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
29567 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
29571 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29574 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
29575 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
29576 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
29577 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
29578 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
29581 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
29582 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
29583 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
29584 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
29585 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
29588 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
29589 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
29590 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
29591 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
29592 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
29593 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
29596 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
29597 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
29598 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
29599 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29600 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29601 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
29602 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
29603 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
29604 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
29605 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
29606 fixes part of bug 3407.
29607 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
29608 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
29609 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
29610 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
29611 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
29612 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
29613 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
29614 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
29615 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
29616 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
29618 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
29619 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
29620 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
29621 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
29624 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29626 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
29627 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
29628 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
29630 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
29632 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
29635 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
29636 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
29637 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
29638 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
29639 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
29640 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
29644 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
29645 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
29646 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
29647 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
29648 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
29649 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
29650 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
29652 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
29653 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
29654 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
29655 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
29656 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
29657 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
29658 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
29659 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
29660 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
29661 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
29662 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
29663 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
29664 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
29665 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
29666 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
29667 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
29668 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
29669 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
29670 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
29674 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
29675 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
29676 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
29677 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
29678 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
29679 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
29680 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
29681 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
29682 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
29686 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
29687 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
29688 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
29690 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
29692 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
29693 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
29694 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
29695 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
29696 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
29697 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
29698 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
29699 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
29700 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
29702 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
29703 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29704 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
29705 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
29706 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
29707 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
29709 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
29710 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
29712 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
29713 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
29714 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
29717 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
29718 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
29719 Resolves ticket 3252.
29720 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
29721 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
29722 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
29723 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
29724 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
29725 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
29728 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
29729 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
29732 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
29733 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
29734 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
29737 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
29738 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29739 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
29740 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
29741 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
29744 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
29745 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
29746 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
29747 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
29748 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
29749 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
29750 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
29751 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
29752 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
29756 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
29757 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
29758 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
29759 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
29760 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
29762 o Security/privacy fixes:
29763 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
29764 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
29765 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
29766 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
29767 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
29768 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
29769 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
29770 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
29771 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
29772 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
29773 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
29774 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
29775 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
29776 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
29777 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29780 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
29781 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
29782 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
29783 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
29784 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
29785 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
29786 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
29787 part of ticket 3076.
29788 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
29789 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
29790 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
29794 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
29795 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
29796 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
29797 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
29798 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
29799 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
29800 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
29801 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
29803 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
29804 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
29805 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
29806 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
29807 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
29808 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
29809 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
29810 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
29811 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
29812 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
29813 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
29814 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
29815 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
29818 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29819 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29820 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29821 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
29822 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
29823 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
29824 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
29826 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
29827 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
29828 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
29829 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
29830 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
29831 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
29832 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
29833 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
29834 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
29835 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
29836 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
29837 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
29838 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
29839 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
29840 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
29841 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
29843 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
29844 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
29846 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
29847 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
29849 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
29850 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
29852 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
29853 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
29854 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
29856 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
29857 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29858 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29859 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29860 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29861 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29862 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29863 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29864 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29865 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
29866 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
29868 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
29869 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
29870 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
29871 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
29872 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
29873 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29874 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
29875 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
29876 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
29877 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
29878 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
29879 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
29880 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
29883 o Removed features:
29884 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
29885 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
29886 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
29890 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
29891 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
29892 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
29893 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
29894 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
29895 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
29897 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
29898 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
29899 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
29902 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
29903 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
29904 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
29905 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
29906 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
29907 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
29908 zero-copy transports where available.
29909 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
29910 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
29911 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
29912 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
29913 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
29914 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
29915 debug it as it breaks.
29916 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
29917 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
29918 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
29919 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
29920 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
29921 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
29922 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
29923 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
29924 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
29925 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
29926 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
29927 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
29928 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
29929 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
29930 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
29931 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
29932 PortForwarding option.
29933 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
29934 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
29935 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
29936 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
29937 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
29938 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
29939 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
29942 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
29943 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
29944 Implements enhancement 1668.
29945 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
29947 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
29948 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
29949 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
29950 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
29951 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
29952 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
29953 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
29955 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
29956 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
29957 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
29958 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
29959 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
29960 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
29961 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
29963 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
29964 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
29965 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
29966 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
29967 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
29968 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
29969 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
29971 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
29972 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
29973 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
29974 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
29975 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
29976 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
29977 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
29978 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
29979 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
29980 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
29981 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
29982 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
29983 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
29984 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
29985 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
29988 o Minor features (controller):
29989 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
29990 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
29991 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
29992 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
29993 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
29994 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
29995 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
29998 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
29999 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
30000 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
30001 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
30002 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
30003 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
30004 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
30005 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
30007 o Minor packaging issues:
30008 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
30009 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
30011 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30012 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
30013 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
30014 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
30015 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
30016 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
30017 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
30018 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
30019 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
30020 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
30021 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
30022 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
30023 our library structure used to force them to link it.
30025 o Removed features:
30026 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
30027 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
30028 are no longer in use as servers.
30030 o Documentation fixes:
30031 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
30032 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
30033 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
30037 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
30038 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
30039 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
30040 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
30041 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
30042 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
30043 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
30044 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
30045 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
30046 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
30049 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
30050 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
30051 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
30052 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
30053 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
30054 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
30055 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
30056 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
30057 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
30058 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30059 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
30060 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
30061 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
30062 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
30063 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
30064 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
30066 o Security and stability fixes:
30067 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
30068 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
30069 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
30070 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
30071 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
30072 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
30073 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
30074 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
30075 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
30076 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
30077 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
30078 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
30079 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30080 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
30081 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
30082 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
30085 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
30086 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
30087 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
30088 contributions to the network.
30090 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
30091 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
30092 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
30093 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
30094 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
30095 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
30096 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
30097 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
30098 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
30099 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
30100 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
30101 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
30102 connections to directory servers.
30103 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
30104 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
30105 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
30106 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
30107 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
30108 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
30109 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
30110 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
30111 information, or fetch directory information.
30112 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
30113 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
30114 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
30115 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
30116 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
30117 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
30118 unless you really want your Tor to break.
30119 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
30120 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
30121 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
30122 - When StrictNodes is 1:
30123 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
30124 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
30125 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
30126 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
30127 reachability self-tests.
30128 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
30129 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
30130 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
30131 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
30132 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30133 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
30134 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
30136 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
30137 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30138 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
30139 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
30140 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
30141 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
30142 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
30143 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
30144 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
30145 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
30146 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
30149 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
30150 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
30151 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
30152 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
30153 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
30154 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
30155 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
30156 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
30157 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
30158 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
30159 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
30160 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30161 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
30162 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
30163 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
30164 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
30165 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
30167 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
30168 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
30169 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
30170 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
30171 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30172 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
30173 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
30174 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
30175 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30176 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
30177 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
30178 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
30179 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
30180 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
30181 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
30182 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
30183 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
30184 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
30185 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
30186 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
30189 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
30190 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
30191 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
30192 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
30193 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
30194 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
30195 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
30196 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
30197 Required by fix for bug 3000.
30198 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
30199 by fix for bug 3000.
30200 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
30201 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
30203 o Code simplification and refactoring:
30204 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
30205 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
30206 send a body too). Since only server versions before
30207 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
30208 keep the workaround in place.
30209 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
30210 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
30211 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
30212 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
30213 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
30214 want to do it differently.
30215 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
30216 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
30217 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
30218 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
30219 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
30223 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
30224 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
30225 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
30226 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
30227 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
30230 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
30231 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
30232 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
30233 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
30234 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
30236 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
30237 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
30238 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
30239 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
30240 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
30241 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
30242 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
30243 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
30244 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
30245 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
30246 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
30247 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
30250 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
30251 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
30252 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
30253 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
30254 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
30255 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
30256 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
30258 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
30259 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
30260 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
30261 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
30262 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
30263 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
30264 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
30265 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
30266 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
30267 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
30268 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
30269 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
30270 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
30271 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
30272 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
30273 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
30274 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30275 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
30276 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
30277 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
30278 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
30279 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
30280 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30283 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
30284 networkstatus vote.
30285 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
30286 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
30287 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
30289 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
30290 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
30291 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
30292 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
30294 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
30295 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
30296 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
30297 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30300 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
30301 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
30303 o Documentation changes:
30304 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
30305 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
30307 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
30310 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
30311 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
30312 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
30313 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
30314 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
30315 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
30318 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30319 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30320 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30321 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30322 the rest of bug 1074.
30323 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
30324 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
30325 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
30326 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
30327 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
30328 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
30329 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
30330 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30331 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30332 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30333 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30334 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30335 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30336 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30339 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
30340 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
30341 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
30342 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
30343 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
30344 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
30345 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
30346 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
30347 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
30348 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
30349 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
30350 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
30351 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
30352 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
30354 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30355 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
30356 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
30357 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
30358 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
30359 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
30361 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
30362 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
30363 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
30364 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
30365 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
30366 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
30367 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
30368 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
30369 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
30370 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
30371 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
30372 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
30373 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
30374 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
30375 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
30376 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
30377 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
30378 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
30379 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
30380 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
30381 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
30382 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
30383 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
30384 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
30385 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
30386 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
30388 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
30389 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
30390 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
30391 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
30392 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
30393 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
30395 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
30396 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
30397 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
30399 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
30400 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
30401 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
30402 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
30403 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
30404 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
30405 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
30406 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
30407 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
30408 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
30409 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
30410 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
30411 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
30415 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
30416 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
30417 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
30418 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
30419 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
30420 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
30421 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
30422 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
30423 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
30424 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
30425 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
30426 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
30428 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30430 o Minor features (log subsystem):
30431 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
30432 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
30433 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
30435 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
30436 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
30438 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
30439 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
30440 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
30443 o Packaging changes:
30444 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30445 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30446 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30449 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
30450 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
30451 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
30452 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30453 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30454 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
30457 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
30458 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
30459 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
30460 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
30461 the rest of bug 1074.
30462 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30463 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30464 Found by "piebeer".
30465 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
30466 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
30467 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
30468 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
30469 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
30470 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
30471 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
30474 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30476 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30479 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30480 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30481 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
30482 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30483 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30484 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30485 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30486 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30487 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30488 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30489 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30491 o Packaging changes:
30492 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
30493 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
30494 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
30495 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
30496 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
30497 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
30500 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
30501 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
30502 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
30503 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
30504 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
30505 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
30508 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
30509 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
30510 Found by "piebeer".
30511 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
30512 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
30513 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
30514 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
30517 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
30519 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
30520 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
30521 Implements ticket 2432.
30524 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
30525 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
30526 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
30529 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
30530 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
30531 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
30532 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
30533 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
30534 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30536 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30537 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30538 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30539 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30541 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30542 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30543 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30544 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30545 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30546 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30547 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30548 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30550 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30551 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30552 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30553 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30554 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30555 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30556 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30557 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30558 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30559 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30560 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30561 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30562 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30563 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30566 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
30567 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30568 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30569 bug reported by doorss.
30570 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30571 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30572 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30573 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30574 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30576 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30577 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30578 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30579 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
30580 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30582 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30583 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30584 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30586 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
30587 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30588 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30589 Automake 1.7 or later.
30590 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30591 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30592 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30593 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30595 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30596 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
30597 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
30600 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30601 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
30602 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
30603 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
30605 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30606 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
30607 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
30608 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
30609 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
30610 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
30611 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
30612 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
30613 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
30615 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
30616 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
30617 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
30620 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30621 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
30622 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
30623 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
30624 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
30625 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
30626 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
30627 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
30628 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
30629 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
30630 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
30631 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
30632 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
30634 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
30635 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
30639 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
30640 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
30641 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
30642 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
30643 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
30645 o Major bugfixes (security):
30646 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
30647 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
30648 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
30650 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
30651 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
30652 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
30653 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
30654 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
30655 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
30656 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
30657 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
30659 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
30660 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
30661 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
30662 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
30663 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
30664 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
30665 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
30666 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
30667 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
30668 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
30669 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
30670 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
30671 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
30672 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
30675 o Minor bugfixes (other):
30676 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
30677 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
30678 bug reported by doorss.
30679 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
30680 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
30681 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30682 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
30683 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
30685 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
30686 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
30687 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
30688 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
30689 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
30690 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
30691 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
30692 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
30693 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
30696 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30697 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
30700 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
30701 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
30702 Automake 1.7 or later.
30705 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
30706 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30707 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
30708 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
30709 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
30712 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30713 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30714 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30715 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30716 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
30717 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
30718 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
30719 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
30720 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
30721 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
30722 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
30724 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
30725 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
30726 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
30727 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
30729 o Directory authority changes:
30730 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30733 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
30734 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
30735 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
30736 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
30737 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
30738 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
30739 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
30740 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
30741 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
30744 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30745 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
30746 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
30747 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
30748 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
30749 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
30750 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
30751 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
30752 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
30753 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
30757 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
30758 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
30759 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
30760 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
30764 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
30765 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
30766 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
30767 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
30769 o Directory authority changes:
30770 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
30773 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30776 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
30777 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30778 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
30779 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
30780 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
30783 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30784 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30785 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30786 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30787 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30788 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30789 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30790 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30791 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30792 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30793 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30794 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30795 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30796 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30797 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30798 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30799 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30800 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30801 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30802 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30803 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30804 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
30805 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
30808 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
30809 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
30810 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
30811 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
30813 o New directory authorities:
30814 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
30818 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
30819 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
30820 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
30822 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30823 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30824 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
30825 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
30826 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
30827 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
30829 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
30830 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
30831 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
30834 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
30835 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
30836 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
30837 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
30838 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
30839 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
30840 Patch from mingw-san.
30843 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
30844 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
30845 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
30846 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
30847 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
30848 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
30851 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
30852 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
30853 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
30856 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
30857 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
30858 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
30859 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
30860 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
30863 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
30864 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
30865 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
30866 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
30867 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
30868 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
30869 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
30870 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
30871 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
30874 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
30875 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
30876 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
30877 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
30878 to a stable release.
30881 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
30882 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
30883 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
30884 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30885 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
30886 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
30887 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
30888 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
30889 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
30890 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
30891 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
30892 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
30893 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
30894 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
30895 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
30896 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
30897 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
30898 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
30899 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
30900 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
30901 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
30902 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
30903 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
30904 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
30905 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
30906 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
30907 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
30908 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
30909 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
30910 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
30911 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
30914 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
30915 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
30916 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
30917 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
30918 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
30919 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
30920 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
30921 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
30922 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
30923 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
30924 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
30925 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
30926 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
30927 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
30928 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
30929 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
30930 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
30932 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
30933 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
30934 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
30935 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
30936 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
30938 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
30939 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
30940 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
30941 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
30944 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
30945 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
30946 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
30947 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
30948 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
30949 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
30950 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
30951 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
30953 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
30954 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
30955 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
30956 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
30957 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
30958 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
30959 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
30960 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
30961 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
30962 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
30963 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
30964 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
30965 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
30966 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
30967 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
30970 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
30971 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
30972 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
30973 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
30974 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
30975 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
30976 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
30977 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
30978 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
30981 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
30982 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
30983 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
30984 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
30985 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
30987 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
30988 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
30989 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
30990 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
30991 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
30992 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
30993 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
30994 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
30995 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
30996 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
30997 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
30998 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
30999 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
31000 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
31002 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31003 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
31005 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
31006 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
31007 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
31008 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
31009 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
31010 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
31011 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
31012 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
31013 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
31014 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
31015 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
31016 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
31017 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
31018 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
31019 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
31020 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
31021 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
31022 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31024 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
31025 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
31026 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
31027 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
31028 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
31029 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
31030 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
31031 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
31032 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
31033 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
31034 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
31035 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
31036 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
31038 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
31039 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
31040 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
31041 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31044 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
31045 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
31046 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
31047 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
31048 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
31049 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
31050 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
31051 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
31052 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
31053 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
31054 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
31055 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
31056 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
31057 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
31058 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
31059 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
31060 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
31061 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
31062 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
31065 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31066 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
31067 based on the time during which we were active and not in
31068 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
31069 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
31070 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
31071 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
31072 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
31074 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31075 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
31076 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
31077 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
31078 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
31079 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
31080 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
31081 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
31082 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
31083 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
31086 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
31087 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
31088 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
31089 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
31091 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
31092 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
31093 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
31094 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
31095 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
31096 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
31097 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
31098 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
31099 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
31100 the longest-lived bug prize.
31101 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
31102 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
31103 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
31104 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
31105 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
31106 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
31108 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
31109 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
31110 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
31111 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
31112 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
31113 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
31117 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
31118 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
31119 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
31120 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
31121 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
31122 got suppressed since the last warning.
31123 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
31124 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
31125 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
31126 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
31127 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
31128 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
31129 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
31130 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
31131 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
31132 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
31133 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
31134 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
31135 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
31136 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
31137 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
31138 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
31139 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
31140 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
31141 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
31143 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
31144 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
31145 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
31147 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31148 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
31149 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
31150 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
31151 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
31152 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
31153 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
31154 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
31155 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
31156 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
31157 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
31158 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
31159 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
31160 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
31161 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
31163 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
31164 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
31165 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
31166 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
31167 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
31168 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31169 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
31171 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
31172 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
31173 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
31174 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
31175 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
31178 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31179 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
31180 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
31181 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
31182 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
31183 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
31184 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
31185 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
31186 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
31187 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
31188 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
31189 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
31190 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
31191 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
31192 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
31193 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
31194 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
31195 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
31198 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
31201 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
31202 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
31203 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
31204 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
31205 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
31209 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
31210 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
31211 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
31212 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
31213 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
31214 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
31215 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
31216 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
31217 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
31218 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
31219 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
31220 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
31221 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
31222 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
31223 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
31224 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
31225 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
31228 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
31229 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
31230 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
31231 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
31232 they first get the Guard flag.
31233 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
31237 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
31238 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
31239 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
31240 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
31241 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
31242 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
31243 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
31244 Patch from mingw-san.
31245 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
31246 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
31248 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
31249 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
31250 Implements enhancement 1790.
31252 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
31253 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
31254 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
31255 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
31256 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
31257 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
31258 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
31259 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
31260 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
31261 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
31262 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
31263 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
31264 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
31265 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
31266 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
31267 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
31268 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
31269 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
31270 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
31271 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
31273 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
31274 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
31275 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
31276 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
31277 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
31278 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
31279 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
31280 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
31281 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
31282 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
31283 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
31284 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
31285 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
31287 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
31288 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
31289 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
31290 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
31291 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
31292 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
31294 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31295 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
31296 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
31297 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
31298 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
31299 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
31300 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
31301 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
31302 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
31303 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
31304 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
31305 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
31307 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
31308 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
31309 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
31310 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
31311 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
31312 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
31313 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
31315 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
31317 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
31318 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
31319 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
31320 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
31321 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
31322 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
31324 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31325 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
31326 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
31327 structures and defines in or.h for now.
31328 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
31329 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
31330 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
31331 statistics code to be more easily tested.
31332 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
31333 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
31334 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
31337 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
31338 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
31339 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
31340 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
31341 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
31342 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
31346 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
31347 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
31348 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
31349 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
31350 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
31351 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
31352 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
31353 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
31354 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
31355 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
31356 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
31357 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
31358 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
31360 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
31361 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
31362 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
31363 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
31364 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
31365 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
31366 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
31367 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
31368 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
31369 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
31370 can be controlled by the consensus.
31373 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
31374 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
31375 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
31376 more accurate data for many African countries.
31377 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
31378 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
31379 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31380 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
31381 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
31382 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
31383 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
31384 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
31385 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
31386 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
31387 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
31388 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
31390 o New directory authorities:
31391 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
31395 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
31396 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
31397 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
31398 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
31399 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
31400 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
31401 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
31402 what should go in a patch.
31403 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
31404 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
31405 over our stored history.
31406 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
31407 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
31408 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
31409 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
31410 file. Fixes bug 1296.
31411 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
31412 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
31413 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
31417 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
31419 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
31420 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
31421 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
31422 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
31423 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
31424 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
31425 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
31426 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
31427 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
31428 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
31429 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
31430 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31431 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
31432 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
31433 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
31434 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
31435 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
31436 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
31437 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
31438 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
31439 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
31440 two-hop circuits are actually created.
31441 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
31442 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31443 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
31444 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
31447 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
31448 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31449 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31450 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31451 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31453 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
31454 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31457 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31458 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31459 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31460 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31461 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31462 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31463 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31464 their directory fetches over TLS).
31465 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31466 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31467 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31468 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31469 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31470 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31471 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31472 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31475 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31476 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31480 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31481 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31482 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31483 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31484 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31485 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31486 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31489 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
31490 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
31491 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
31492 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
31493 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
31496 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
31497 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
31498 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
31499 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
31500 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
31501 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
31502 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
31503 their directory fetches over TLS).
31506 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
31507 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
31509 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
31510 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
31511 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
31512 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
31513 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
31514 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
31515 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
31516 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
31517 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
31518 hour of their uptime.
31521 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
31522 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
31523 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
31527 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
31528 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
31529 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
31530 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
31531 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
31532 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
31534 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
31535 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
31536 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
31538 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
31539 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
31543 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
31544 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
31545 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
31549 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
31550 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
31551 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
31554 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
31555 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
31556 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
31557 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
31558 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
31559 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
31560 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
31561 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
31562 about the option without breaking older ones.
31563 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
31564 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
31565 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
31566 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
31569 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
31570 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
31571 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
31572 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
31574 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
31575 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
31576 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
31579 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
31580 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
31582 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
31583 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
31584 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
31585 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
31586 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
31587 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
31588 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31589 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
31590 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
31591 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
31592 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
31595 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
31596 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31597 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
31598 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
31599 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
31600 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
31601 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
31604 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
31605 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
31606 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
31607 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
31608 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
31609 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
31612 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31613 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31614 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31615 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
31617 o Major features (performance):
31618 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
31619 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
31620 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
31621 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
31622 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
31623 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
31624 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
31626 o Minor features (performance):
31627 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
31628 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
31629 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
31630 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
31631 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
31635 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
31636 speeds up the build considerably.
31638 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
31639 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
31640 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31641 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
31642 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31643 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
31644 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
31645 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
31647 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
31648 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31649 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31651 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31652 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31653 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31654 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31656 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31657 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
31658 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
31659 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
31660 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
31661 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
31664 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
31665 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
31666 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
31668 o Directory authority changes:
31669 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31670 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31671 service directory authority) from the list.
31674 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31675 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31676 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31677 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31678 libraries in a security patch.
31679 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31680 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31681 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31682 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31684 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
31685 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
31686 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
31687 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
31688 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31689 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31690 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31693 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
31694 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
31695 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
31696 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
31697 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
31698 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
31699 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
31700 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
31701 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
31702 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
31703 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
31704 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
31705 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
31707 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
31708 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
31709 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
31710 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
31711 control-spec.txt said they were.
31712 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31713 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31714 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
31715 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
31716 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31718 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
31719 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
31720 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
31721 produce nicer HTML.
31722 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
31723 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
31724 iPhone SDK versions.
31725 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
31726 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
31727 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
31728 projects directory in svn.
31729 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
31730 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
31731 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
31732 high latency links.
31735 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
31736 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
31737 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
31739 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
31740 to the circuit build timeout.
31741 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
31742 arguments we do not recognize.
31743 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
31744 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
31745 open() without checking it.
31748 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
31749 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
31750 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
31751 several minor potential security bugs.
31754 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
31755 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
31756 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
31757 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
31758 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
31759 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
31760 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
31763 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
31764 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
31766 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
31767 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
31768 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
31769 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
31773 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
31774 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
31778 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
31779 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
31780 customized patches to run/build.
31783 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
31784 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
31785 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
31788 o Major bugfixes (performance):
31789 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31790 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31791 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31792 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31793 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31794 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31795 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31798 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
31799 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
31800 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
31801 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
31802 libraries in a security patch.
31803 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
31804 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
31805 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
31806 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
31809 o Directory authority changes:
31810 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
31811 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
31812 service directory authority) from the list.
31815 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
31816 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
31819 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31820 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31821 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31822 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31823 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31826 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
31827 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
31828 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
31832 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occurred during the
31833 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
31834 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
31835 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
31836 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
31839 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
31840 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
31841 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
31845 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
31846 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
31847 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
31848 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
31849 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
31851 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
31852 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
31854 o Directory authority changes:
31855 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31858 o Major features (performance):
31859 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
31860 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
31861 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
31862 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
31863 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
31864 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
31865 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
31866 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
31867 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
31868 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
31869 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
31870 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
31871 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
31873 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
31874 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
31875 but never per-conn write limits.
31876 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
31877 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
31878 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
31879 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
31881 o Major features (relay selection options):
31882 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
31883 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
31884 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
31885 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
31886 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
31887 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
31888 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
31890 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
31891 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
31893 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
31894 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
31895 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
31896 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
31897 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
31898 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
31899 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
31900 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
31901 the network changes.
31904 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31905 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31906 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31909 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
31910 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
31911 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
31912 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
31913 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
31914 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
31915 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
31916 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
31917 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
31918 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
31919 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
31920 generated while acting as a relay.
31921 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
31922 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
31923 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
31924 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
31925 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
31926 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
31928 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
31929 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
31930 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
31931 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
31932 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
31933 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
31936 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
31937 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
31938 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
31940 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
31941 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
31942 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
31944 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
31945 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
31947 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
31948 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
31949 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
31951 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
31952 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
31955 o Minor bugfixes (other):
31956 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
31957 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
31958 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
31959 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
31960 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
31961 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
31962 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
31963 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
31965 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
31968 o Removed features:
31969 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
31970 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
31971 hidden service usage.
31974 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
31975 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
31976 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
31977 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
31978 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
31980 o Directory authority changes:
31981 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
31985 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
31986 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
31987 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
31990 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
31991 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
31992 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
31993 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
31994 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
31997 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
31998 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
31999 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
32000 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
32001 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
32002 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
32003 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
32006 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
32007 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
32008 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32009 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
32010 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
32011 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
32013 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
32014 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
32017 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
32018 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
32019 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
32020 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
32021 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
32022 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
32025 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
32026 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
32027 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
32029 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
32030 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
32031 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
32032 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
32033 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
32034 download consensus + microdescriptors".
32035 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
32036 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
32037 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
32038 hash algorithm in the future.
32039 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
32040 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
32041 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
32042 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
32043 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
32044 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
32045 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
32046 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
32047 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
32050 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
32051 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
32052 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
32053 won't work unless we say we are.
32056 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
32057 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
32058 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
32059 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
32060 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
32061 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
32062 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
32063 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
32064 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32065 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
32066 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
32067 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
32068 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
32069 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
32070 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
32071 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
32072 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
32073 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
32074 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
32075 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
32076 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
32077 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
32080 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
32081 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
32082 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
32083 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
32085 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
32086 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
32088 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
32089 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
32090 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
32091 in the Vidalia Settings window.
32094 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
32095 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
32096 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
32097 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
32098 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
32100 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
32101 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
32103 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
32104 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
32105 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
32108 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
32109 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
32110 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
32112 o New directory authorities:
32113 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
32115 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
32118 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
32119 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
32121 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
32122 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
32123 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32124 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
32125 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
32126 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
32127 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32128 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
32129 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
32130 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
32131 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
32132 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
32133 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
32134 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
32135 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
32136 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
32137 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
32139 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
32140 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
32141 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
32143 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
32144 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
32148 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
32149 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
32150 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
32151 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
32152 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
32155 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
32156 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
32159 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
32161 o Directory authorities:
32162 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
32166 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
32167 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
32168 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
32169 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
32170 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
32173 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
32174 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
32175 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
32176 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
32178 o New directory authorities:
32179 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
32182 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
32183 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
32184 SSL handshake issues.
32185 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
32186 during the TLS handshake.
32187 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
32188 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
32189 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
32190 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
32191 none of which are very big.
32194 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
32196 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
32197 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32198 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
32199 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
32200 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32201 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
32202 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
32203 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32206 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
32207 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
32208 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
32209 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
32210 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
32213 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
32214 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32217 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
32218 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
32221 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
32222 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
32223 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
32226 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
32227 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
32228 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
32229 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
32230 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
32231 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
32234 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
32235 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
32236 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
32237 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
32238 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
32239 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
32240 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
32241 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
32242 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
32243 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
32244 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
32245 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
32246 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
32247 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
32248 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
32249 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
32250 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
32251 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
32254 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
32255 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
32259 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
32260 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
32261 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
32262 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
32263 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
32264 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
32265 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32266 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
32267 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
32268 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
32269 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32270 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
32271 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
32272 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
32273 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
32274 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
32275 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
32276 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
32277 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
32278 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
32279 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
32281 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
32282 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
32283 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
32284 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32285 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
32286 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
32288 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
32289 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
32290 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
32293 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
32294 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
32295 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
32296 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
32297 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
32298 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
32301 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
32302 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
32303 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
32304 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
32305 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
32308 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
32309 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
32310 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
32313 o New directory authorities:
32314 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
32318 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
32319 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
32320 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
32321 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
32322 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
32325 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
32326 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
32327 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
32328 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
32329 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
32332 o New options for gathering stats safely:
32333 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
32334 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
32335 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
32336 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
32337 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
32338 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
32339 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
32340 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32341 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
32343 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
32344 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
32345 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
32346 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
32348 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
32349 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
32350 their extra-info documents.
32353 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
32354 source files Tor was built with.
32355 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
32356 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
32357 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
32358 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
32359 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
32360 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
32362 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
32363 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
32364 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
32365 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
32366 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
32368 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
32369 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
32372 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
32373 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
32374 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
32375 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
32376 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
32378 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
32379 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
32381 o Deprecated and removed features:
32382 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
32383 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
32384 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
32385 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
32386 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
32387 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
32388 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
32389 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
32391 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
32392 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
32393 via application-level web tricks.
32395 o Packaging changes:
32396 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
32397 installer bundles. See
32398 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
32399 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
32400 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
32401 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
32402 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
32403 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
32404 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32405 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
32406 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
32407 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
32408 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
32409 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
32412 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
32413 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
32414 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
32417 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
32418 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
32419 part of patch provided by "optimist".
32422 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
32423 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
32424 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
32425 and confuse fewer users.
32428 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
32429 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
32430 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
32431 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
32432 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
32433 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
32434 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
32437 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
32438 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
32439 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
32440 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
32441 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
32442 other features and bug fixes.
32445 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
32448 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
32449 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
32450 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
32451 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
32452 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
32455 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
32456 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
32457 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
32458 failure message (oops).
32461 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
32462 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
32463 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
32464 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
32468 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
32469 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
32470 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
32471 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
32472 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
32473 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
32474 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32475 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
32476 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
32477 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
32478 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
32479 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
32480 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
32481 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
32482 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
32485 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
32486 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32487 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
32488 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
32489 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
32490 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
32491 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
32492 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
32493 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
32494 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
32495 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
32496 Workaround for bug 1024.
32497 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
32501 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
32502 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
32503 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
32506 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
32508 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32509 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32510 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32511 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32512 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32515 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32516 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32517 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32518 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32519 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32520 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32521 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32522 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32523 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32524 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32527 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32528 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32529 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
32530 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32531 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32532 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32533 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32534 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32537 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
32538 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
32539 a bunch of minor bugs.
32542 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
32543 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
32544 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
32546 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
32547 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
32548 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
32549 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
32551 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
32555 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32556 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
32557 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
32559 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32560 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
32562 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
32563 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
32565 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
32566 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
32567 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
32568 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
32569 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
32570 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
32571 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
32572 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
32574 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32575 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
32576 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
32578 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
32579 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
32580 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
32581 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
32582 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
32586 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
32587 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32588 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
32589 of more minor bugs.
32591 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32592 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
32593 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
32594 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
32596 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
32597 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
32598 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
32599 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32600 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
32601 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
32602 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
32603 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
32604 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
32605 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
32606 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
32607 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32608 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
32609 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
32610 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
32611 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
32612 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
32614 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
32615 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
32616 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
32617 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
32619 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32620 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
32621 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
32624 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
32625 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
32626 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
32627 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
32628 addresses to fall out of the directory.
32631 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
32632 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
32633 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
32634 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
32636 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
32637 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
32638 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
32639 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
32640 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
32641 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
32642 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
32643 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
32644 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
32645 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
32646 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
32647 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
32648 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
32649 patch by Sebastian.
32650 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
32651 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
32654 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
32655 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
32656 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
32657 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
32658 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
32659 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
32661 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
32662 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
32663 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
32664 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
32665 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
32667 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
32670 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
32671 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
32673 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
32674 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
32675 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32676 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32677 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
32678 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
32680 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
32681 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32682 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
32683 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
32684 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
32685 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32686 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
32687 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
32688 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
32689 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
32690 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
32691 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
32695 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
32696 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
32697 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
32700 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
32701 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
32702 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
32704 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
32705 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
32706 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
32707 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
32708 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
32709 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
32710 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
32711 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
32712 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
32713 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
32714 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
32715 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
32716 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
32717 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
32718 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
32719 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
32720 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
32721 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
32722 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
32723 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
32724 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
32725 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
32726 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
32727 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
32728 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
32729 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
32731 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
32732 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
32733 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
32734 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
32735 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
32736 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
32737 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
32738 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
32739 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
32740 of 0. Suggested by lark.
32742 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
32743 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
32744 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
32745 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
32746 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
32749 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
32751 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
32752 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
32753 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
32754 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
32757 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
32758 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
32759 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
32760 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32761 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
32763 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
32764 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
32765 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
32766 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
32769 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32770 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32771 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32772 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32773 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32774 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
32775 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
32776 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
32779 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
32780 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32781 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32782 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32785 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
32786 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
32787 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
32788 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
32789 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
32790 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
32793 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
32794 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
32795 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
32796 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
32797 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
32798 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32801 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
32802 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
32803 reported by Matt Edman.
32804 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
32806 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
32807 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
32808 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
32809 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
32811 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
32812 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
32813 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
32814 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
32815 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
32816 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
32817 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
32818 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
32819 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
32820 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
32821 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
32822 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
32823 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
32824 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
32825 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
32826 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32827 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
32828 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
32829 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
32832 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
32833 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
32834 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
32835 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
32838 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
32839 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
32840 the letter of C99's alias rules.
32843 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
32844 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
32845 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
32846 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
32848 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
32849 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
32850 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
32853 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32854 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32857 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
32858 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
32859 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
32860 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
32861 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
32862 reported by "wood".
32863 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
32864 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
32865 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
32866 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
32867 identify a connection.
32868 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
32869 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
32870 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
32871 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
32872 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
32873 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
32874 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
32875 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
32876 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
32877 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
32879 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
32880 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
32881 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
32882 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
32883 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
32884 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
32885 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32888 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
32889 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
32891 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
32892 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
32893 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
32894 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
32895 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
32896 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
32897 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
32898 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
32900 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
32901 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
32902 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
32903 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
32904 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
32905 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
32906 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
32907 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
32908 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
32909 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
32910 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
32911 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
32912 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
32913 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
32914 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32915 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
32916 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
32917 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
32918 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
32919 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
32920 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
32921 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
32922 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
32923 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
32924 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
32925 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
32926 840. Patch from rovv.
32927 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
32928 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
32929 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
32931 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
32932 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
32933 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
32934 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
32935 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
32936 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
32937 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
32939 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
32940 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
32941 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
32944 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
32945 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
32947 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
32948 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
32949 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
32950 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
32951 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
32952 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
32953 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
32954 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
32955 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
32957 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
32959 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
32960 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
32964 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
32965 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
32966 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
32967 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
32968 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
32969 have had some time to upgrade.)
32972 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
32973 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
32976 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
32977 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
32978 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
32979 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
32980 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
32983 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
32984 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
32986 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
32987 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
32988 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
32989 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
32990 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
32991 entirely. Patch from coderman.
32994 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
32995 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
32996 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
32997 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
32998 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
32999 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33000 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
33004 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
33005 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
33006 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
33007 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
33008 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
33009 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
33010 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
33013 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
33014 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
33015 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
33016 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
33017 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
33019 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
33020 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
33021 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
33022 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
33023 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
33024 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
33025 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
33026 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
33027 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
33028 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
33032 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
33033 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
33034 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
33036 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
33037 without support for deprecated functions.
33038 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
33040 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
33041 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
33042 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
33043 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
33044 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
33045 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
33046 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
33047 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
33048 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
33049 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
33050 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
33051 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
33052 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
33053 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
33054 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
33055 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
33056 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
33057 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
33058 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
33059 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
33060 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
33061 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
33062 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
33064 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
33065 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
33066 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
33067 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
33068 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
33069 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
33071 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
33072 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
33073 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
33074 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
33075 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
33077 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
33078 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
33079 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
33081 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
33082 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
33085 o Deprecated and removed features:
33086 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
33087 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
33088 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
33091 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33092 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
33093 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
33094 with log.h on Android.
33095 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
33096 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
33099 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
33100 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
33102 o New directory authorities:
33103 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
33107 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
33108 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
33109 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
33110 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
33111 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
33112 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
33115 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
33116 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
33117 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
33118 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
33119 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
33120 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
33121 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
33122 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
33123 reported by "wood".
33124 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
33125 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
33126 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
33127 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
33130 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
33131 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
33133 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
33134 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
33135 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
33136 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
33137 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
33138 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
33139 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
33140 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
33141 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
33142 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
33143 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
33144 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
33145 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
33146 Implements proposal 148.
33147 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
33148 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
33149 system to do it for us.
33150 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
33151 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
33152 this fix will be slightly helpful.
33153 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
33154 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
33155 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
33156 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
33157 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
33158 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
33159 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
33160 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
33161 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
33164 o Minor features (controller):
33165 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
33166 been fetched and validated.
33167 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
33168 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
33169 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
33170 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
33171 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
33172 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
33175 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
33176 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33177 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
33178 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
33179 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
33181 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
33182 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
33183 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
33184 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
33185 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
33186 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
33187 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
33188 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
33189 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
33191 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
33192 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
33193 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
33194 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
33195 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
33196 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
33197 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
33198 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
33200 o Deprecated and removed features:
33201 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
33203 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
33204 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
33205 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
33207 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33208 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
33209 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
33211 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
33212 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
33213 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
33214 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
33215 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
33216 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
33219 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
33220 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
33221 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
33222 fixes a variety of other issues.
33225 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
33226 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
33227 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
33228 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
33231 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
33232 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
33233 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
33234 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
33237 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33238 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33239 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
33243 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
33245 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
33246 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
33247 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33248 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
33249 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
33250 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
33251 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33253 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
33254 rest, and don't automatically fail.
33255 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
33256 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
33257 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
33258 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
33260 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
33261 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
33262 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
33263 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
33264 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
33265 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
33266 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
33267 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
33268 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
33269 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
33271 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
33275 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
33276 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
33277 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
33279 o Minor features (controller):
33280 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
33284 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
33285 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33286 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33287 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33288 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33289 variety of other issues.
33292 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33293 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33294 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33295 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33296 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33297 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33298 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
33299 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33300 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33301 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33302 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33303 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33306 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
33307 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33309 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
33310 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33311 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33312 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33313 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33314 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33315 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33316 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33317 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33318 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
33319 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
33320 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
33321 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
33322 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
33323 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33327 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
33328 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33329 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33330 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33331 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33332 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33333 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33334 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33335 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33336 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33337 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33338 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33339 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33340 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33341 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
33342 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33343 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33344 list. It has been gone for many months.
33345 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
33346 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
33347 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
33350 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33351 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
33352 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
33355 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
33356 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
33357 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
33358 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
33359 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
33360 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
33361 variety of other issues.
33364 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
33365 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
33366 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
33367 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
33368 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
33369 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
33370 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
33371 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
33372 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
33373 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
33374 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
33375 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
33376 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
33377 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
33380 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
33381 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
33382 Suggested by Lucky Green.
33383 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
33384 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
33385 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
33386 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
33387 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
33388 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
33390 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
33391 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
33393 o Hidden service performance improvements:
33394 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
33395 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
33396 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
33397 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
33398 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
33399 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
33400 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
33401 faster after restart.
33404 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
33405 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
33406 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
33407 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
33408 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
33409 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
33410 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
33411 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
33412 840. Patch from rovv.
33413 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
33414 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
33415 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
33416 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
33417 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
33418 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
33419 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
33420 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
33421 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
33423 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
33424 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
33425 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
33426 have already been marked for close.
33427 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
33428 introduction points.
33429 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
33430 memory performance during directory parsing.
33431 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
33432 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
33433 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
33434 because of a pending download.
33437 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
33438 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
33439 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
33440 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33443 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
33444 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
33445 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
33446 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
33447 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
33448 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
33449 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
33450 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
33451 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
33452 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
33453 lookups more reliable.
33454 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
33455 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
33456 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
33457 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
33458 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
33459 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
33460 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33463 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
33464 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
33465 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33466 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
33467 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
33468 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
33469 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
33470 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
33471 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
33472 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
33473 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
33475 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
33476 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
33477 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
33478 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
33479 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
33480 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
33481 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
33482 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
33483 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33486 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
33487 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
33488 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
33489 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
33490 locked down these days.
33491 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
33492 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
33493 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
33494 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
33495 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
33497 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
33498 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
33499 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
33500 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
33501 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
33502 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
33503 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
33504 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
33505 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
33506 people find host:port too confusing.
33507 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
33508 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
33509 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
33512 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
33514 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
33515 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
33516 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
33517 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
33518 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
33520 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
33521 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
33522 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
33523 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
33524 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
33525 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
33526 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
33527 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
33528 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
33529 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
33530 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
33531 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
33533 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
33534 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
33535 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
33536 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
33537 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
33538 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
33539 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
33540 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
33541 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
33543 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
33544 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
33545 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
33546 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
33547 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
33548 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33549 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
33550 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
33551 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
33552 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
33553 bug 820, reported by seeess.
33554 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
33555 list. It has been gone for many months.
33557 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
33558 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
33559 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
33560 actual mistakes we're making here.
33561 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
33562 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
33563 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
33564 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
33567 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
33568 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
33569 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
33570 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33573 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33574 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33575 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33576 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33577 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33578 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33580 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33581 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33582 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33583 pointed out by rovv.
33586 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33587 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33588 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33589 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33590 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
33591 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
33592 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33593 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33594 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33595 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33596 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33597 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
33598 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
33599 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33600 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33601 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33602 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33603 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33604 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
33605 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
33606 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33609 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
33610 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
33611 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
33612 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
33613 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
33614 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
33615 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
33618 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
33620 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
33621 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
33622 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
33623 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
33624 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
33625 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
33626 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
33628 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
33629 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
33630 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
33631 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
33632 known descriptor before building circuits.
33634 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
33635 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
33636 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
33637 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
33638 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
33639 identify a connection.
33640 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
33641 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
33642 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
33644 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
33645 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
33646 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
33647 pointed out by rovv.
33650 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
33651 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33652 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
33653 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
33654 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
33655 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33656 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
33657 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
33658 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
33659 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
33660 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
33661 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
33662 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
33663 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
33664 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
33667 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
33668 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
33669 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
33670 answer sections match.
33671 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
33672 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
33675 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
33676 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33679 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
33680 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
33681 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
33683 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
33684 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
33685 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
33688 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
33689 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
33690 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
33691 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
33694 o Removed features:
33695 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
33696 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
33699 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
33700 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
33701 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
33702 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
33703 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
33704 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
33706 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
33707 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
33708 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
33711 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
33712 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
33713 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
33714 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
33715 be sent using an "early" cell.
33718 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
33719 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
33720 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
33721 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
33722 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
33723 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
33724 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
33727 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
33728 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
33729 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
33730 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
33731 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
33732 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
33733 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
33734 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
33735 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
33736 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
33737 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
33738 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
33739 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
33740 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
33741 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
33742 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
33745 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
33746 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
33747 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
33748 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33749 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33750 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33751 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
33752 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
33753 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
33755 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
33756 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
33757 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
33758 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
33759 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
33762 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
33763 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
33764 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
33765 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
33767 o Removed features:
33768 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
33769 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
33773 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
33775 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
33776 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
33777 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
33780 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
33781 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
33782 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33785 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
33786 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
33787 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33788 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33789 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33790 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
33791 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
33792 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
33793 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33794 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33795 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
33796 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
33797 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
33798 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
33799 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
33800 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
33801 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
33802 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
33803 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
33804 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
33805 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
33806 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
33807 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
33810 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
33811 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
33813 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
33814 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
33815 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
33816 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
33817 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
33818 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
33819 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
33821 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
33822 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
33823 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
33824 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
33825 found by Geoff Goodell.
33828 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
33829 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
33830 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
33831 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
33832 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
33833 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
33836 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
33837 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
33838 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
33841 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33842 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
33843 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
33844 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
33845 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33846 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
33847 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
33848 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
33849 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
33850 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
33851 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
33852 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
33853 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
33854 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
33857 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
33858 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
33859 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
33861 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
33862 fingerprints with or without space.
33863 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
33864 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
33865 partway through and wants to catch up.
33866 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
33867 state to start out in.
33870 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
33871 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
33872 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
33873 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
33874 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
33877 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
33878 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
33879 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
33880 some of the connection attempts fail.
33881 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
33882 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
33883 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
33884 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
33885 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
33886 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
33888 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
33889 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
33890 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
33893 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
33894 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
33895 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
33896 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
33897 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
33898 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
33899 and adds a variety of smaller features.
33902 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
33903 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
33904 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
33905 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
33907 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
33908 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
33909 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
33910 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
33912 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
33913 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
33914 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
33915 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
33916 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
33917 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
33918 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
33921 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
33922 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
33923 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
33924 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
33925 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
33927 o Memory fixes and improvements:
33928 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
33929 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
33930 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
33931 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
33932 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
33933 on a typical directory cache.
33934 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
33935 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
33936 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
33937 and may reduce fragmentation.
33938 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
33939 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
33940 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
33942 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
33943 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
33944 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
33946 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
33947 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
33951 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
33952 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
33953 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
33954 done that for a long time.
33955 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
33956 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
33957 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
33958 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
33961 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
33962 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
33963 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
33964 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
33965 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
33966 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
33968 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
33969 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
33970 output to messages of warning and error severity.
33971 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
33972 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
33973 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
33974 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
33975 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
33976 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
33977 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
33978 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
33979 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
33980 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
33981 directory requests we should expect to see.
33982 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
33984 - Lots of new unit tests.
33985 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
33986 two parallel lists in lockstep.
33989 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
33990 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
33991 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
33994 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
33995 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
33996 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
33997 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
33998 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
33999 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
34000 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
34003 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
34004 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
34005 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
34009 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
34010 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
34011 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
34014 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
34015 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
34016 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
34018 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
34019 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
34021 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
34022 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
34023 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
34024 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
34025 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34026 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
34027 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
34029 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
34030 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
34031 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
34032 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
34033 - Fix compile on Windows.
34036 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
34037 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
34038 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
34039 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
34040 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
34041 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
34042 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
34045 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
34046 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
34049 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
34050 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
34051 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
34052 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
34054 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
34055 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
34056 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
34059 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
34060 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
34061 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
34062 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
34066 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
34067 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
34068 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
34069 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
34071 o Major security fixes:
34072 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
34073 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
34074 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
34075 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
34076 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
34079 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
34080 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34083 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
34084 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
34087 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
34088 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
34091 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
34092 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
34093 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
34096 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
34097 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34100 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
34101 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
34102 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
34103 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
34104 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
34106 o New directory authorities:
34107 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
34108 it has been down for months.
34109 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
34113 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
34114 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
34116 o Minor features (security):
34117 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
34118 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
34119 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
34122 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
34123 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
34124 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
34125 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
34126 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
34127 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
34128 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
34129 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
34130 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
34132 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
34133 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
34134 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
34135 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
34136 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
34137 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
34138 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34139 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
34140 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
34142 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
34143 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
34144 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
34145 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
34146 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
34147 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
34148 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
34149 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
34150 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
34151 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
34152 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34153 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
34154 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
34155 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
34156 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
34157 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
34158 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
34159 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
34160 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
34163 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
34164 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34165 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
34166 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
34169 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
34170 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
34171 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
34172 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
34175 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
34176 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34177 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
34178 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
34179 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
34182 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
34183 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
34184 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
34185 certain censored countries by default again.
34188 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
34189 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34190 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
34191 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
34192 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34193 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
34194 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
34195 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
34197 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34198 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
34199 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
34200 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
34201 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
34202 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
34203 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
34204 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
34205 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
34206 a directory. Fix from lodger.
34208 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34209 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
34210 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
34211 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
34212 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
34213 RelayBandwidth* values.
34214 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
34215 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
34216 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
34217 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
34218 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
34219 get_interface_address6().
34220 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
34221 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
34222 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
34224 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
34225 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
34226 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
34227 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34228 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
34229 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
34230 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
34231 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
34232 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
34233 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
34236 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
34237 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
34238 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
34241 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
34242 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34243 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
34244 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
34245 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
34248 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
34249 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
34250 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
34251 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
34252 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
34253 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
34254 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
34255 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
34256 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
34259 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
34260 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
34261 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
34262 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
34265 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
34266 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
34267 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
34268 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
34269 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
34270 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
34271 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
34274 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
34275 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
34276 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
34277 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
34278 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
34279 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
34280 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
34282 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
34283 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
34284 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
34285 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
34286 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
34289 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
34290 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
34291 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
34292 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
34293 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
34294 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
34295 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34296 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
34297 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
34298 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
34299 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
34300 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
34301 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
34302 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
34303 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
34304 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34305 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
34306 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34307 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34308 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
34309 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
34310 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
34311 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
34312 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
34313 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
34314 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
34316 o Minor features (performance):
34317 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
34319 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
34320 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
34321 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
34322 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
34323 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
34324 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
34325 non-system include paths.
34326 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
34327 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
34330 o Minor features (other):
34331 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
34333 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
34334 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
34335 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
34338 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
34339 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
34340 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
34341 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
34343 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
34344 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
34345 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
34346 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
34347 Should fix bug 537.
34348 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
34349 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
34350 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34351 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
34352 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
34354 o Minor bugfixes (other):
34355 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
34356 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
34357 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
34358 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
34359 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
34360 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
34361 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
34362 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
34363 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
34364 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
34365 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
34366 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
34367 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
34368 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
34369 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34370 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
34371 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
34372 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
34373 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
34374 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
34375 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
34376 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
34377 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
34378 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
34381 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34382 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
34383 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
34387 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
34388 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
34389 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
34390 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
34391 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
34394 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
34395 Tor's x509 certificates.
34398 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
34399 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
34400 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34401 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
34402 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
34403 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34405 o Minor features (security):
34406 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
34407 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
34409 o Minor features (directory authority):
34410 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
34411 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
34412 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
34413 bandwidthburst values.
34415 o Minor features (controller):
34416 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
34417 processes from running us out of memory.
34419 o Minor features (misc):
34420 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
34421 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
34422 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
34423 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
34425 o Deprecated features (controller):
34426 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
34427 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
34428 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
34431 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
34432 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
34434 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
34435 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
34436 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34437 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
34438 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
34439 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34440 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
34441 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
34443 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
34444 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34445 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
34446 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34447 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
34448 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
34449 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
34450 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
34452 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
34453 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
34454 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
34455 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
34456 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34457 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
34458 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34459 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
34460 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34461 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
34462 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
34463 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34465 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
34466 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
34468 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
34469 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
34470 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
34471 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
34472 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
34473 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
34476 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
34477 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
34478 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
34479 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
34480 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
34482 o New directory authorities:
34483 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
34487 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
34488 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
34489 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
34490 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
34491 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
34492 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
34493 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
34494 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
34498 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
34499 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
34500 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
34501 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
34502 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
34503 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
34504 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
34505 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
34506 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
34507 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
34510 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
34511 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
34512 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
34513 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
34517 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
34518 the request isn't encrypted.
34519 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
34520 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
34521 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
34522 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
34523 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
34526 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
34527 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
34530 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
34533 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
34534 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
34535 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
34537 o New directory authorities:
34538 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
34541 o Major performance improvements:
34542 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
34543 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
34544 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
34545 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
34546 memory fragmentation.
34549 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
34550 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
34551 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
34552 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34553 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
34554 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
34555 bodies when they receive them.
34556 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
34557 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
34558 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
34560 o Minor performance improvements:
34561 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
34562 of them were actually distinct.
34563 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
34564 interested in a given message.
34567 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
34568 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
34569 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
34570 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
34571 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
34572 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
34573 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
34574 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
34575 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
34576 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
34577 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
34579 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
34580 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
34581 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
34582 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
34583 this country" and "1 person from this country".
34584 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34585 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
34586 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34587 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
34588 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
34590 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34591 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
34592 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
34594 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
34595 but client versions are not.
34596 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34597 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34599 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
34600 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
34601 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
34602 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
34603 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
34605 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
34606 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
34607 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
34610 o Minor features (controller):
34611 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
34612 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
34613 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
34614 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
34616 o Minor features (directory authorities):
34617 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
34618 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
34619 running a test network on a single host.
34620 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
34621 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
34623 o Minor features (bridges):
34624 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
34625 unencrypted connections.
34627 o Minor features (other):
34628 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
34629 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
34630 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
34631 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
34634 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
34635 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
34636 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
34637 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
34640 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34641 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34642 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34643 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34644 on network address.
34647 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
34648 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
34649 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34650 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
34651 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34652 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
34653 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34654 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34655 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
34656 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
34657 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
34658 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
34661 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34662 rebuild our server descriptor.
34663 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34664 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
34665 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
34666 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34667 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34668 nonstandard integer types.
34669 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
34670 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
34671 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
34672 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
34673 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
34675 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
34676 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
34677 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
34678 when they receive them.
34679 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
34680 This includes some 64-bit systems.
34681 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
34682 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
34683 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
34684 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
34685 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
34686 router_get_by_hexdigest().
34687 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
34688 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
34692 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
34693 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
34694 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34697 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
34698 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
34699 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
34700 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
34701 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
34702 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
34703 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
34704 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34707 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
34708 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
34709 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
34710 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
34712 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
34713 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
34716 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
34717 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
34720 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
34722 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
34723 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
34725 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
34726 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
34727 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
34728 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34729 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
34730 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
34731 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
34732 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
34733 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
34734 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
34738 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
34739 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
34740 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
34743 - Make the unit tests build again.
34744 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
34745 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
34746 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
34747 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
34748 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
34749 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34750 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
34751 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
34752 the next one as a duplicate.
34755 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
34756 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
34757 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
34758 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
34761 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
34762 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
34763 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
34766 o New directory authorities:
34767 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
34771 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
34772 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
34773 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
34774 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
34775 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
34776 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
34777 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
34779 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
34780 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
34782 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
34783 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
34784 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
34785 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
34786 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
34787 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
34789 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
34790 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
34791 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
34792 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
34793 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
34794 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34797 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
34798 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
34799 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
34800 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
34801 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
34802 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
34803 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
34804 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
34805 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
34806 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
34807 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
34808 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
34809 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
34810 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
34811 where Tor is blocked.
34812 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
34813 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
34814 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
34815 to a file periodically.
34816 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
34817 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
34818 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
34822 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
34823 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
34824 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
34825 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
34826 in the relevant networkstatus document.
34827 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
34828 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
34829 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34830 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
34831 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
34832 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
34833 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
34834 by Karsten Loesing.
34835 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
34836 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
34837 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
34838 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
34839 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
34840 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34841 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
34842 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
34843 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
34844 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34845 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
34846 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
34847 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
34848 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34849 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
34850 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
34851 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
34852 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
34853 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
34854 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34855 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34856 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
34857 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34858 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
34859 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
34860 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34861 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
34862 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34865 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
34866 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
34867 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
34868 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
34869 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
34870 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
34871 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
34872 even if your DirPort isn't on.
34873 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
34874 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
34875 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
34877 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
34878 multiple controller passwords.
34879 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
34880 router based on the router's purpose.
34881 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
34882 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
34883 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
34884 the approved-routers file.
34887 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
34888 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
34889 well as a few minor bugs.
34892 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
34893 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
34894 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
34896 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
34897 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
34898 rebuild our server descriptor.
34900 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
34901 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
34902 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
34903 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
34904 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
34905 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
34906 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
34907 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
34908 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
34909 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
34911 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
34912 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
34913 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
34914 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
34915 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
34916 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
34917 then be flexible about families.
34920 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
34921 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
34922 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
34926 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
34927 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
34928 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
34929 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
34930 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
34933 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
34934 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
34935 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
34936 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
34937 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
34940 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
34941 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
34943 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
34944 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
34945 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
34946 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
34947 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
34948 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
34949 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
34951 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
34952 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
34953 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
34954 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
34957 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
34958 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
34961 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
34962 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
34963 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
34966 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
34967 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
34968 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
34969 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
34970 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
34971 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
34972 addresses many more minor issues.
34974 o New directory authorities:
34975 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
34978 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
34979 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
34980 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
34981 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
34983 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
34984 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
34985 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
34986 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
34987 and are reaching it.
34988 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
34989 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
34990 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
34991 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
34992 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
34993 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
34996 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
34997 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
34999 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
35000 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
35001 no longer work for clients.
35002 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
35003 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
35005 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
35006 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
35007 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
35008 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
35009 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
35010 enough directory information to build a circuit.
35011 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
35012 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
35013 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
35014 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
35015 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
35016 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
35018 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
35019 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
35020 requests for all of them.
35021 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
35023 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
35024 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
35025 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
35027 o New requirements:
35028 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
35029 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
35033 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
35034 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
35035 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
35036 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
35037 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
35038 networkstatuses that we already have.
35039 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
35040 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
35041 we start knowing some directory caches.
35042 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
35043 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
35044 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
35045 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
35046 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
35047 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
35048 Good in combination with --hash-password.
35049 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
35050 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
35052 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
35053 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
35054 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
35056 o Minor features (bridges):
35057 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
35058 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
35059 back to trying the bridge directly.
35060 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
35061 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
35063 o Minor features (controller):
35064 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
35065 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
35066 report the value as a "minimum skew."
35069 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
35070 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
35074 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
35075 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
35076 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
35077 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
35078 reported by tup and ioerror.
35079 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
35080 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
35082 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
35083 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
35085 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
35086 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
35087 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
35089 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
35090 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35091 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
35092 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35093 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
35094 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35095 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
35097 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
35098 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
35099 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35101 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
35102 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
35103 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
35104 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
35105 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
35108 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
35109 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
35110 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
35111 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
35112 lists for a few hours each day.
35114 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35115 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
35116 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
35117 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
35118 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
35119 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
35120 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
35121 rend_process_relay_cell().
35123 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35124 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
35125 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
35126 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
35127 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
35128 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
35129 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
35130 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
35132 o Major bugfixes (other):
35133 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
35134 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
35135 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
35136 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
35137 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
35138 circuit cannibalization).
35139 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
35140 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
35141 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
35142 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
35143 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
35144 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
35147 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35148 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
35150 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35151 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
35152 absent. Resolves bug 467.
35153 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
35154 a way to trigger this remotely.)
35155 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
35156 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
35157 were reporting the dir port.)
35158 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
35159 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
35160 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35161 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35162 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35164 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35165 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35166 the onion key from getting rotated.
35167 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
35168 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
35169 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
35170 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
35171 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
35172 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
35173 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
35174 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
35175 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
35178 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
35179 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
35180 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
35181 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
35182 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
35183 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
35185 o Major features (directory system):
35186 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
35187 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
35188 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
35189 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
35190 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
35191 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
35192 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
35193 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
35194 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
35195 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
35196 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
35197 Partially implements proposal 122.
35198 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
35199 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
35202 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
35203 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
35204 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
35205 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
35207 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
35208 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
35209 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
35210 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
35211 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
35212 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35213 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
35214 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
35215 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35217 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
35218 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
35220 - Allow certificates to include an address.
35221 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
35222 and download operations.
35223 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
35224 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
35225 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
35226 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
35227 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
35228 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
35230 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
35231 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
35234 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
35235 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
35236 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
35237 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
35239 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
35240 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
35241 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
35243 o Minor features (performance):
35244 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
35245 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
35246 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
35247 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
35248 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
35249 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
35250 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
35253 o Minor features (compilation):
35254 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
35255 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
35257 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35258 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
35259 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
35260 stick around indefinitely.
35261 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
35263 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
35264 v3 directory authority.
35265 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
35266 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
35268 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
35269 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
35270 "moria on moria:9031."
35271 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
35272 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
35273 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
35274 - When there's no consensus, we were forming a vote every 30
35275 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
35276 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
35277 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
35278 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
35280 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
35281 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
35282 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
35283 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
35284 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
35285 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
35286 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
35287 downloads than for other types.
35289 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
35290 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
35292 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
35293 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
35294 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35296 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35297 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
35298 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35299 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
35300 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
35301 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
35302 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
35303 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
35305 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35306 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
35307 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
35308 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
35309 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35310 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
35311 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
35312 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35313 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
35314 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
35315 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
35317 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
35318 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
35321 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35322 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
35323 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
35324 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
35325 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
35326 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
35327 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
35328 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
35329 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
35330 so that they all take the same named flags.
35333 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
35334 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
35335 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
35338 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
35339 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
35340 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
35341 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
35342 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
35343 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
35345 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
35346 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
35347 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
35348 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
35349 annotations along with descriptors.
35350 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
35351 source, and its purpose.
35352 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
35354 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
35355 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
35356 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
35357 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
35360 o Major features (directory authorities):
35361 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
35363 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
35364 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
35365 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
35366 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
35367 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
35368 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
35370 o Major features (v3 directory system):
35371 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
35372 and download the descriptors listed in them.
35373 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
35374 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
35375 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
35377 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35378 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
35379 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
35380 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
35383 o Major bugfixes (performance):
35384 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
35385 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
35386 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
35387 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
35389 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
35390 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
35391 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
35392 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
35393 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
35394 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
35396 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
35397 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
35399 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
35400 certificate is requested.
35401 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
35402 certificate requests.
35404 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
35405 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
35406 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
35407 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
35410 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35411 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
35412 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
35413 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35415 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
35416 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
35418 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
35419 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
35420 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35421 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
35422 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
35423 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
35424 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
35425 downloads more sensible.
35426 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
35427 another when serving certificates.
35429 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35430 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
35431 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
35432 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
35434 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
35435 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35436 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
35438 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
35439 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35441 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
35442 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
35443 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
35444 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
35445 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
35447 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
35448 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
35449 WARN-severity events.
35450 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
35451 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
35452 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
35454 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
35455 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
35456 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
35458 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
35459 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
35460 circuit cannibalization).
35462 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35463 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
35464 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
35465 new module, networkstatus.c.
35466 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
35467 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
35468 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
35469 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
35470 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
35471 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
35472 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
35473 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
35474 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
35476 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
35478 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
35479 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35482 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
35483 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
35484 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
35485 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
35487 o New directory authorities:
35488 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
35489 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
35491 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35492 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
35493 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35495 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
35496 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
35497 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
35498 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
35499 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
35500 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
35501 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
35502 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
35503 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
35504 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
35505 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35507 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
35508 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
35509 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
35510 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
35511 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
35512 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
35513 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
35514 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
35515 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
35517 o Minor features (security):
35518 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
35519 address maps to an internal address space.
35520 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
35521 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
35523 o Minor features (guard nodes):
35524 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
35525 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
35526 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
35527 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
35529 o Minor features (speed):
35530 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
35531 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
35532 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
35533 on big-endian hosts.)
35535 o Minor features (controller):
35536 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
35537 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
35538 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
35539 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
35542 o Removed features:
35543 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
35544 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
35545 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
35546 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
35547 implementation of proposal 104.
35548 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
35549 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
35550 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
35551 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
35552 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
35553 patch from Karsten Loesing.
35554 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
35555 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
35558 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
35559 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
35560 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
35561 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
35562 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35563 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
35564 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
35565 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
35566 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
35567 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35568 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
35569 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
35570 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
35571 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35572 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
35573 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
35574 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
35575 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35576 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
35577 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
35579 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
35580 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
35581 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
35583 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
35584 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
35585 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
35586 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
35589 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
35590 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
35591 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
35592 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35593 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
35596 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
35597 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
35600 o Major bugfixes (security):
35601 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
35602 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
35603 become more of a headache than it's worth.
35605 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35606 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35607 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35609 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35610 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35611 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35612 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35613 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35614 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35616 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35617 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35618 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35619 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35620 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
35622 o Minor features (controller):
35623 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35624 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35625 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35626 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35628 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
35629 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
35630 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
35631 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35632 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
35633 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
35634 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
35635 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35637 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
35638 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35639 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35640 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
35641 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35642 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35643 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35644 if we ran off the end of the list.
35645 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35646 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35647 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35648 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35649 every time we change any piece of our config.
35650 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35651 encourage people using them to stop.
35652 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
35654 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35655 servers to choose a circuit.
35656 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35657 unparseable piece of it.
35660 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
35661 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
35662 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
35663 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
35666 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
35667 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
35668 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
35669 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
35670 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
35672 o New directory authorities:
35673 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
35676 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
35677 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
35678 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
35679 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
35681 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
35682 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
35683 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
35685 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
35686 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
35687 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
35688 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
35689 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
35690 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
35692 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
35693 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
35694 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
35697 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
35698 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
35699 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
35700 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
35704 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
35705 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
35706 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
35707 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
35709 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
35710 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
35712 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
35713 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
35714 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
35715 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
35716 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
35717 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
35718 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35719 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
35720 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
35721 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
35724 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
35725 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
35726 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
35727 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
35728 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
35729 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
35731 o Removed features:
35732 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
35733 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
35734 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
35735 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
35738 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
35739 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
35740 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
35741 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
35742 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
35745 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
35746 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
35747 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
35748 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
35749 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
35750 reported by lodger.
35752 o Minor features (directory servers):
35753 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
35754 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
35756 o Minor features (directory voting):
35757 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
35760 o Minor features (security):
35761 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
35762 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
35763 encourage people using them to stop.
35765 o Minor features (controller):
35766 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
35767 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
35768 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
35769 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
35770 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
35771 cookie authentication file, and config option
35772 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
35774 o Minor features (unit testing):
35775 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
35776 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
35777 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
35778 logging for the unit tests.
35780 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
35781 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
35782 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
35783 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
35784 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
35785 every time we change any piece of our config.
35786 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
35787 the future. Fixes bug 434.
35788 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
35790 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
35791 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
35792 the onion key from getting rotated.
35793 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
35794 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
35795 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
35798 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
35799 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
35800 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
35802 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
35803 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
35804 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
35805 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
35808 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
35809 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
35810 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
35811 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
35812 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
35813 TorK, etc. Or worse.
35815 o Major security fixes:
35816 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35817 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35820 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
35821 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
35822 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
35823 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
35825 o Major security fixes:
35826 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
35827 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
35829 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35830 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
35833 o Minor features (performance):
35834 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
35835 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
35836 performance-intensive.
35837 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
35838 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
35839 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
35840 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
35841 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
35842 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
35846 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
35847 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
35848 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
35849 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
35853 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
35854 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
35855 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
35856 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
35857 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
35859 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
35860 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
35861 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
35862 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
35864 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
35865 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
35866 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
35867 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
35868 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
35870 o Major features (experimental):
35871 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
35872 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
35873 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
35874 handling before it's ready for use.
35877 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
35878 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
35879 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
35880 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35881 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
35882 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
35884 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
35885 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
35886 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
35887 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
35888 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
35890 o Major bugfixes (directory):
35891 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
35892 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35894 o Minor features (controller):
35895 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
35896 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35897 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
35898 from Robert Hogan.)
35899 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
35900 from Robert Hogan.)
35901 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
35902 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
35904 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
35905 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
35906 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
35907 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
35908 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
35909 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
35910 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
35913 o Minor features (misc):
35914 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
35916 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
35917 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
35918 the authority identity key.
35919 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
35921 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
35922 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
35923 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
35926 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
35927 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
35928 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
35929 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
35930 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
35931 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
35932 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
35933 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
35935 o Performance improvements:
35936 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
35938 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
35939 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
35942 o Deprecated and removed features:
35943 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
35944 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
35945 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
35946 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
35948 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
35949 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
35950 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35951 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
35952 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
35953 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35954 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
35955 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
35956 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
35959 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
35960 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
35961 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
35962 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
35963 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
35965 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
35966 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
35969 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
35970 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
35971 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
35972 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
35973 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
35974 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
35975 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
35976 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
35977 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
35980 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
35981 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
35982 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
35983 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
35985 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
35986 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
35988 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
35989 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
35990 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
35991 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
35992 routerlist while inserting a new router.
35993 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
35994 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
35996 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
35997 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
35998 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
36000 o Major bugfixes (security):
36001 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
36003 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
36004 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
36005 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
36006 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
36007 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
36008 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
36009 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
36010 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
36011 guard list unless we need to.
36013 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
36014 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
36015 don't get overused as guards.
36017 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
36018 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
36019 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
36020 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
36021 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
36023 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
36024 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
36025 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
36028 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
36029 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
36030 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
36031 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
36032 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
36033 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
36034 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
36035 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
36038 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
36039 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
36040 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
36041 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
36043 o Minor features (directory):
36044 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
36045 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
36046 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
36047 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
36049 o Minor build issues:
36050 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
36051 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
36052 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
36053 in the tarball, not as "x".
36056 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
36057 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
36058 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
36059 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
36060 forward on a lot of fronts.
36062 o Major features, server usability:
36063 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
36064 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
36065 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
36066 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
36068 o Major features, client usability:
36069 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
36070 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
36071 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
36072 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
36073 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
36074 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
36075 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
36076 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
36078 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
36079 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
36080 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
36081 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
36082 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
36083 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
36085 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
36086 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
36087 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
36089 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
36090 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
36091 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
36092 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
36093 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
36095 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
36096 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
36097 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
36098 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
36100 o Major features, other:
36101 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
36102 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
36103 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
36104 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
36105 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
36108 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
36109 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
36110 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
36113 o Minor fixes (resource management):
36114 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
36115 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
36116 our allocated connection limit.
36117 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
36118 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
36119 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
36120 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
36121 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
36123 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
36124 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
36125 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
36127 o Minor features (build):
36128 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
36129 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
36130 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
36131 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
36133 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
36134 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
36135 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
36136 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
36137 Use this version consistently in log messages.
36139 o Minor features (logging):
36140 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
36141 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
36142 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
36143 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
36144 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
36147 o Minor features (directory system):
36148 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
36149 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
36150 not to serve V2 directory information.
36151 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
36152 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
36153 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
36155 o Minor features (controller):
36156 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
36157 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
36159 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
36160 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
36161 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
36162 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
36163 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
36164 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
36166 o Minor features (hidden services):
36167 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
36168 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
36169 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
36170 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
36172 o Minor features (other):
36174 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
36175 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
36176 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
36177 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
36178 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
36179 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
36180 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
36181 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
36182 longer a completely silly thing to do.
36183 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
36184 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
36185 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
36186 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
36188 o Removed features:
36189 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
36190 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
36191 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
36192 back an error and close the connection.
36193 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
36194 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
36197 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
36198 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
36199 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
36200 makes the log messages nicer.
36201 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
36202 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36203 partial results on small file reads.
36205 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
36206 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
36207 more often than they are allowed to appear.
36208 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
36209 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
36211 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
36212 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
36213 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
36214 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
36216 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36217 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
36218 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
36219 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
36220 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
36221 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
36222 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
36223 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
36224 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
36225 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
36226 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
36228 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
36229 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
36230 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
36232 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36233 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
36234 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
36235 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
36237 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36238 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
36239 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
36241 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
36242 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
36245 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
36246 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
36247 implicit in other procedure arguments.
36248 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
36249 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
36250 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
36251 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
36252 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
36253 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
36254 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
36255 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
36256 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
36259 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
36260 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
36261 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
36262 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
36264 o Directory authority changes:
36265 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
36266 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
36267 or use hidden services.
36269 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36270 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
36271 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
36272 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
36273 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
36274 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
36275 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
36276 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
36277 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
36280 o Major bugfixes (security):
36281 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
36282 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
36283 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
36285 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
36286 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
36287 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
36288 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
36289 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
36290 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
36291 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
36292 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
36293 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
36294 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
36297 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
36298 purpose=controller.
36299 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
36300 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
36302 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
36303 having a hard time downloading.
36304 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
36305 partial results on small file reads.
36306 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
36307 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
36308 the gaps in the store get very large.
36311 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
36312 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
36314 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
36315 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
36318 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
36319 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
36320 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
36321 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
36322 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
36323 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
36325 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
36326 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
36327 free speech on the Internet.
36330 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
36331 get one we don't recognize.
36332 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
36333 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
36336 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
36338 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
36339 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
36340 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
36341 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
36344 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
36345 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
36348 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
36349 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
36350 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
36351 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
36352 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
36353 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
36354 ask for GUARDS too.
36357 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
36358 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36359 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
36360 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
36361 on Win98 and friends again.
36363 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36364 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
36365 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
36368 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
36369 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
36370 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
36371 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
36372 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
36373 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
36374 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
36375 and maybe also bug 397.)
36377 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36378 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
36379 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
36381 o Minor bugfixes (server):
36382 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
36385 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
36386 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
36387 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
36388 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
36389 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
36391 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
36392 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
36393 load on authorities.
36395 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36396 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
36397 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
36398 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
36400 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
36402 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
36403 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
36404 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
36405 the last of bug 326.)
36406 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
36407 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
36411 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
36412 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
36413 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
36414 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
36415 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
36416 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
36417 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
36419 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
36420 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
36422 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
36423 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
36424 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
36426 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
36427 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
36428 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
36430 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36431 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
36432 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
36433 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
36435 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
36436 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
36438 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
36439 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
36440 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
36443 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36444 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
36445 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
36446 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
36447 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
36448 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
36449 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
36450 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
36451 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
36452 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
36453 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
36454 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
36455 other than file-not-found.
36456 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
36457 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
36458 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
36459 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
36460 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
36461 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
36462 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
36463 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
36464 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
36465 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
36466 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
36467 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
36468 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
36469 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
36470 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
36472 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
36474 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
36475 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
36477 o Minor features (controller):
36478 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
36479 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
36480 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
36482 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
36483 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
36484 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
36485 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
36486 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
36487 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
36488 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
36489 connected or resolved cell.
36491 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
36492 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
36493 some profiles, but not others.)
36494 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
36495 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
36496 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
36499 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
36501 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
36502 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
36503 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
36504 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
36505 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
36506 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
36507 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
36508 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
36509 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
36510 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
36511 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
36512 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
36513 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
36514 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
36515 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
36517 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
36520 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
36521 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
36522 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
36523 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
36524 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
36525 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
36526 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
36528 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
36529 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
36530 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
36531 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
36532 buckets go absurdly negative.
36533 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
36534 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
36537 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
36538 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
36539 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
36540 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
36541 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
36542 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
36543 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
36544 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
36547 o Major bugfixes (other):
36548 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
36549 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
36550 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
36551 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
36553 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
36555 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
36556 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
36558 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
36559 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
36560 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
36561 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
36562 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
36563 to wait for 0.2.0.)
36565 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
36566 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
36567 possible memory-stomping bugs.
36568 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
36569 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
36571 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
36572 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
36573 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
36574 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
36575 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
36576 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
36578 o Minor bugfixes (other):
36579 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
36580 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
36581 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
36583 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
36584 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
36585 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
36586 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
36587 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
36588 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
36589 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
36590 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
36591 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
36592 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
36593 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
36594 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
36595 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
36597 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
36598 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
36599 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
36600 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
36601 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
36602 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
36603 to the resulting address.
36606 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
36607 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
36608 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
36609 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
36612 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
36613 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
36615 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
36616 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
36617 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
36618 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
36619 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
36620 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
36621 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
36622 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
36623 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
36624 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
36625 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
36626 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
36627 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
36628 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
36629 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
36630 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
36631 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
36634 o Minor features (controller):
36635 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
36636 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
36637 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
36638 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
36639 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
36640 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
36641 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
36645 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
36647 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
36648 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
36649 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
36650 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
36651 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
36652 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
36655 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
36656 weren't planning to resolve.
36657 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
36658 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
36659 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
36660 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
36661 the controller from learning about current events.
36663 o Minor features (more controller status events):
36664 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
36665 learn when our address changes.
36666 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
36667 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
36668 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
36669 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
36671 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
36672 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
36673 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
36674 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
36675 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
36676 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
36677 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
36678 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
36679 are accepted by a directory.
36680 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
36681 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
36682 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
36683 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
36684 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
36686 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
36687 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
36688 about changes to DNS server status.
36690 o Minor features (directory):
36691 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
36692 too much load to the exit nodes.
36695 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
36697 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
36698 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
36699 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
36700 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
36701 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
36703 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
36704 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
36705 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
36707 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
36708 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
36709 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
36710 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
36711 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
36712 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
36713 config options if you like.
36715 o Minor features (config and docs):
36716 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
36717 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
36718 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
36719 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
36720 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
36722 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
36723 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
36724 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
36725 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
36726 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
36728 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
36729 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
36730 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
36731 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
36732 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
36733 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
36734 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
36735 documentation: "make check-docs".
36736 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
36737 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
36739 o Minor features (DNS):
36740 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
36741 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
36742 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
36743 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
36744 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
36745 our tests for DNS hijacking.
36747 o Minor features (directory):
36748 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
36749 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
36750 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
36751 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
36752 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
36753 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
36754 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
36755 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
36756 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
36757 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
36758 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
36759 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
36760 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
36761 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
36762 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
36763 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
36764 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
36765 for the thing we're trying to download.
36766 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
36767 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
36768 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
36770 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
36771 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
36772 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
36775 o Minor features (controller):
36776 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
36777 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
36779 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
36780 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
36781 entry guard status as it changes.
36783 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
36784 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
36785 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
36786 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
36787 to set log options.
36788 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
36789 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
36790 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
36791 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
36794 o Major bugfixes (security):
36795 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36796 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36797 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36798 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36800 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
36801 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
36802 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
36803 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
36804 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
36806 o Major bugfixes (other):
36807 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
36808 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
36809 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
36810 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
36812 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
36813 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
36814 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
36815 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
36816 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
36817 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
36821 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36822 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36823 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
36824 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
36825 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
36827 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
36828 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
36830 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
36831 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
36832 family lists conveniently.
36833 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
36834 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
36835 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
36837 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
36838 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
36840 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
36841 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
36842 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
36843 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
36844 if their identity keys are as expected.
36845 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
36846 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
36847 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
36849 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
36850 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
36851 reported by Mike Perry.
36852 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
36853 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
36854 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
36855 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
36858 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
36859 o Security bugfixes:
36860 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
36861 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
36862 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
36863 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
36867 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
36868 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
36869 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
36872 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
36874 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
36875 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
36876 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
36879 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
36880 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
36881 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
36882 watching for STREAM events.
36883 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
36884 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
36885 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
36886 operations, for profiling.
36889 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
36890 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
36891 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
36892 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
36893 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
36894 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
36896 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
36900 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36901 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36902 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
36903 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
36904 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
36906 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
36907 correctly in the Windows installer.
36908 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36909 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36910 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
36911 MIPSpro C compiler.
36912 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
36913 when we're running as a client.
36916 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
36918 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
36919 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
36920 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
36921 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
36922 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
36923 its circuits on demand.
36924 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
36925 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
36926 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
36927 connections more stable on average.
36928 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
36929 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
36930 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
36932 o Security bugfixes:
36933 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36934 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36937 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
36939 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
36940 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
36941 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
36942 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36943 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
36944 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
36945 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
36946 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
36949 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
36951 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
36952 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
36953 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
36954 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
36955 routers for even longer.
36956 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
36957 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
36958 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
36959 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
36960 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
36961 caching HTTP proxies.
36962 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
36965 o Minor features, controller:
36966 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
36967 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
36968 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
36969 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
36971 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
36972 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
36973 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
36974 working much like those for circuit events.
36975 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
36976 about the current status of a router.
36977 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
36978 a router's status has changed.
36979 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
36980 can tell which events and features are supported.
36981 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
36982 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
36984 o Security bugfixes:
36985 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
36986 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
36989 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
36990 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
36991 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
36992 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
36993 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
36994 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
36995 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
36996 long nicknames where appropriate.
36997 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
36998 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
36999 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
37000 chews through many circuits before giving up.
37001 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
37002 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
37003 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
37004 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
37005 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
37006 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
37008 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
37009 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
37010 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
37012 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
37013 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
37014 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
37015 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
37016 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
37017 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
37018 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
37019 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
37020 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
37021 (reported by fookoowa).
37022 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
37023 and reported by some Centos users.
37024 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
37025 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
37026 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
37027 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
37028 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
37029 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
37030 before we check for libevent.
37033 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
37035 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
37036 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
37037 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
37038 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
37039 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
37040 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
37041 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
37042 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
37043 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
37044 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
37045 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
37046 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
37047 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
37048 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
37049 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
37050 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
37051 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
37052 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
37053 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
37054 lets you turn it off.
37055 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
37056 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
37057 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
37058 us into the directory more quickly.
37060 o New/improved config options:
37061 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
37062 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
37063 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
37064 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
37065 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
37066 all the machines on the same subnet.
37067 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
37068 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
37069 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
37070 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
37071 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
37072 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
37073 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
37074 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
37075 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
37076 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
37078 o Minor features, controller:
37079 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
37080 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
37081 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
37082 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
37083 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
37084 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
37085 for more information.
37086 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
37087 best guess to the user.
37088 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
37089 descriptor has changed.
37090 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
37092 o Minor features, other:
37093 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
37094 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
37095 useful to the network.
37096 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
37097 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
37098 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
37099 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
37100 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
37101 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
37102 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
37103 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
37104 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
37105 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
37106 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
37107 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
37108 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
37109 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
37110 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
37112 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
37113 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
37114 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
37115 could return an unnamed server instead.
37116 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
37117 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
37118 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
37119 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
37120 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
37121 a more attractive target for compromise.)
37122 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
37123 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
37124 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
37126 o Major bugfixes, other:
37127 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
37128 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
37129 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
37130 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
37131 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
37132 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
37133 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
37134 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
37135 its circuits on demand.
37136 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
37137 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
37138 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
37139 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
37141 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
37142 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
37143 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
37144 we don't recognize.
37145 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
37147 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
37148 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
37149 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
37150 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
37151 "extendcircuit" request.
37152 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
37153 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
37154 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
37156 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
37157 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
37158 instead of "X resolved to X".
37159 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
37160 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
37161 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
37162 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
37163 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
37164 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
37165 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
37166 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
37167 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
37169 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
37170 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
37171 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
37172 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
37173 result more than once.
37174 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
37175 non-versioning dirservers.
37176 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
37177 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
37179 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
37180 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
37181 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
37182 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
37183 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
37184 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
37185 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
37186 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
37187 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
37189 o Packaging, features:
37190 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
37191 now universal binaries.
37192 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
37193 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
37194 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
37196 o Packaging, bugfixes:
37197 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
37198 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
37199 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
37200 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
37202 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
37203 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
37204 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
37207 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
37208 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
37209 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
37213 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
37215 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
37216 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
37217 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
37218 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
37219 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
37220 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
37221 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
37222 it can't resolve its hostname.
37225 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37226 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
37227 "extendcircuit" request.
37228 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
37229 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
37230 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37231 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37233 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
37234 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
37235 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
37237 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
37238 methods: these are known to be buggy.
37239 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
37240 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
37241 we don't recognize.
37244 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
37246 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
37247 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
37248 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
37249 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
37250 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
37251 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
37252 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
37253 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
37254 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
37255 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
37256 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
37257 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
37258 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
37259 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
37260 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
37261 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
37262 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
37263 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
37264 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
37265 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
37266 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
37267 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
37268 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
37269 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
37272 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
37273 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
37274 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
37275 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
37276 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
37277 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
37278 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
37279 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
37280 recommendation system saner.)
37281 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
37283 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
37284 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
37285 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
37286 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
37287 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
37288 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
37289 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
37290 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
37291 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
37292 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
37293 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
37294 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
37295 your ORPort is set.
37296 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
37297 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
37298 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
37299 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
37300 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
37301 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
37302 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
37303 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
37304 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
37305 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
37306 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
37307 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
37309 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
37310 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
37311 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
37312 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
37313 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
37314 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
37317 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
37318 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
37319 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
37320 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
37321 our DirPort now, etc.
37322 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
37323 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
37324 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
37325 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
37326 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
37327 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
37328 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
37330 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
37331 whether the config options are bad or good.
37332 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
37333 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
37334 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
37335 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
37336 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
37337 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
37338 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
37339 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
37342 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
37343 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
37344 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
37345 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
37346 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
37347 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
37348 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
37349 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
37350 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
37351 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
37352 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
37353 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
37354 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
37355 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
37356 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
37357 of it), is not therefore "up".
37358 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
37359 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
37360 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
37361 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
37362 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
37363 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
37366 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
37368 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
37369 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
37370 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
37371 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
37372 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
37373 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
37374 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
37375 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
37376 test reachability, so you won't publish.
37379 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
37380 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
37381 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
37382 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
37383 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
37385 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
37386 own server descriptor yet.
37389 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
37391 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
37392 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
37393 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
37394 make sure to test via one of these.
37395 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
37396 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
37397 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
37398 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
37399 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
37401 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
37402 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
37403 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
37406 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
37407 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
37408 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
37409 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
37410 directory authority.
37411 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
37412 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
37413 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
37414 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
37417 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
37418 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
37419 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
37421 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
37422 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
37423 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
37424 current guards when picking a new guard.
37425 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
37426 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
37427 when we had more than one pending.
37428 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
37429 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
37430 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
37431 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
37432 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
37433 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
37434 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
37435 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
37436 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
37437 debug the reachability problems better.
37439 o Log / documentation fixes:
37440 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
37441 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
37442 about protocol violations by others.
37443 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
37444 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
37445 about what happened to our old torrc.
37448 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
37450 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
37452 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
37453 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
37454 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
37455 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
37458 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
37460 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
37461 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
37462 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
37463 old ORPort and receive connections.
37464 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
37466 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
37467 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
37468 and network-statuses.
37469 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
37470 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
37471 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
37472 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
37474 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
37477 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
37478 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
37479 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
37482 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
37484 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
37485 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
37486 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
37487 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
37488 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
37491 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
37492 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
37494 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
37495 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
37496 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
37497 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
37498 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
37499 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
37500 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
37501 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
37502 rather than not sending anything back at all.
37503 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
37504 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
37505 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
37506 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
37507 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
37508 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
37509 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
37510 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
37511 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
37512 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
37513 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
37514 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
37515 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
37516 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
37517 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
37518 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
37519 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
37520 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
37521 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
37522 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
37523 default ulimit -n is 1024.
37526 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
37527 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
37528 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
37529 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
37532 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
37534 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
37535 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
37536 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
37537 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
37538 entry guards running these flawed versions.
37539 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
37540 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
37541 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
37542 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
37543 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
37546 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
37547 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
37549 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
37550 and it is confusing some users.
37551 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
37552 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
37553 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
37554 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
37555 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
37558 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
37560 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
37561 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
37562 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
37563 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
37564 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
37565 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
37566 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
37567 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
37568 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
37569 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
37570 dirport is set for now.
37572 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
37573 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
37574 unattached before we fail it?
37575 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
37576 at least this many seconds ago.
37577 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
37578 at least this many seconds ago.
37581 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
37582 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
37583 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
37584 or resolve-wait stream.
37585 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
37586 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
37587 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
37588 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
37589 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
37590 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
37591 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
37592 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
37594 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
37595 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
37596 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
37597 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
37598 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
37599 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
37600 given as hex digests.
37601 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
37602 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
37603 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
37604 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
37605 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
37606 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
37607 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
37608 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
37611 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37612 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
37613 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
37614 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
37615 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
37616 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
37617 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
37618 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
37619 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
37620 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
37621 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
37624 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
37625 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
37626 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
37627 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
37628 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
37629 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
37630 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
37633 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
37634 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
37635 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
37636 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
37637 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
37638 misreading their logs.
37639 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
37640 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
37641 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
37642 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
37643 valid router descriptors.
37644 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
37645 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
37646 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
37647 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
37648 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
37649 silently resetting it to its default.
37650 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
37652 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
37655 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
37656 use clean circuits.
37657 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
37658 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
37659 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
37660 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
37661 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
37663 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
37664 because older Tors do not understand it.
37665 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
37669 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
37670 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37671 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
37672 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
37673 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
37674 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
37675 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
37676 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
37677 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
37678 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
37679 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
37681 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
37682 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
37683 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
37684 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
37686 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
37687 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
37690 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
37691 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
37692 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37693 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37694 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37695 without getting overloaded.
37696 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
37698 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
37699 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
37700 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
37701 be forward-compatible.
37702 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
37703 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
37704 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
37705 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
37707 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
37708 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
37709 and OR conns to port 443.
37710 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
37711 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
37713 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
37714 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
37715 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
37716 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
37717 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
37718 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
37719 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
37722 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
37723 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37724 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
37725 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
37727 o Other important bugfixes:
37728 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37729 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37730 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37731 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37733 o Backported features:
37734 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
37735 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
37736 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
37737 without getting overloaded.
37738 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
37739 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
37740 503's whenever they feel busy.
37741 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
37742 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
37743 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
37744 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
37745 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
37748 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
37749 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37750 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
37751 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
37752 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
37753 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
37754 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
37755 know if the crashes continue.
37756 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
37757 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
37758 seg faults in at least some cases.)
37759 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
37760 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
37761 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
37764 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
37765 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
37766 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
37767 try to be a bit more fair.
37768 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
37769 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
37770 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
37771 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
37772 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
37773 bug that let it go negative.
37774 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
37775 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
37776 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
37777 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
37778 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
37779 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
37780 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
37781 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
37782 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
37783 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
37784 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
37787 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
37789 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
37790 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
37791 service descriptors.
37794 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
37795 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
37796 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
37797 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
37799 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
37800 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
37801 versions *are* still recommended.
37802 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
37803 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
37804 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
37805 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
37806 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
37807 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
37808 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
37809 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
37811 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
37812 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
37813 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
37814 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
37815 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
37816 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
37817 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
37818 on it. Not used by clients yet.
37819 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
37820 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
37821 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
37822 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
37823 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
37824 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
37825 established a circuit.
37826 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
37827 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
37828 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
37829 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
37832 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
37833 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
37834 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
37835 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
37836 quickly enough. Oops.
37837 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
37839 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37840 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
37843 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
37844 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
37845 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
37846 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
37847 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
37848 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
37849 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
37850 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
37851 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
37852 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
37853 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
37854 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
37855 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
37856 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
37857 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
37858 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
37859 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
37862 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
37863 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
37864 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
37865 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
37866 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
37867 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
37868 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
37869 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
37870 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
37871 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
37872 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
37873 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
37874 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
37875 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
37876 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
37877 connections more reliable.
37880 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
37881 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
37882 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
37883 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
37884 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
37885 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
37886 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
37887 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
37888 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
37889 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
37890 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
37891 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
37892 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
37893 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
37897 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
37898 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
37899 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
37900 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
37901 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
37902 need to be uint64_t's.
37903 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
37904 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
37905 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
37907 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
37909 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
37910 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
37911 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
37912 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
37913 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
37914 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
37915 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
37917 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
37918 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
37919 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
37920 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
37921 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
37922 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
37923 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
37924 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
37925 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
37926 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
37927 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
37928 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
37929 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
37932 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
37933 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
37934 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
37935 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
37936 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
37937 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
37938 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
37940 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
37941 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
37942 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
37943 can answer v2 directory requests too.
37944 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
37945 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
37946 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
37947 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
37949 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
37950 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
37951 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
37952 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
37953 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
37954 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
37955 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
37956 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
37957 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
37958 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
37959 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
37960 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
37961 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
37962 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
37963 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
37965 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
37966 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
37969 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
37970 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37971 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
37972 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
37973 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
37974 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
37975 too -- so detect and avoid this.
37976 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
37978 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
37979 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
37980 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
37981 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
37982 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
37983 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
37984 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
37985 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
37986 rendezvous circuits.
37987 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
37989 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
37990 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
37991 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
37992 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
37993 advertising it because of hibernation.
37994 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
37995 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
37996 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
37997 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
37998 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
37999 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
38000 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
38001 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
38002 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
38003 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
38004 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
38005 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
38006 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
38007 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
38010 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
38011 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38012 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
38013 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
38014 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
38015 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
38016 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
38017 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
38018 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
38019 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
38020 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
38021 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
38022 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
38023 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
38024 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
38025 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
38026 connections once a week.
38027 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
38028 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
38029 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
38030 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
38031 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
38032 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
38034 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
38035 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
38036 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
38038 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38039 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
38040 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
38041 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
38042 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
38043 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
38044 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
38045 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
38046 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
38047 firewall options forbid.
38048 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
38049 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
38050 can only proxy to certain destinations.
38051 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
38052 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
38053 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
38054 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
38055 aids some statistical attacks.
38056 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
38057 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
38058 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
38059 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
38061 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38062 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
38063 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
38064 server descriptor sometimes.
38065 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
38066 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
38067 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
38068 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
38069 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
38070 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
38071 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
38072 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
38074 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
38075 case the controller wants to change that too.
38076 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
38077 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
38078 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
38079 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
38081 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
38082 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
38083 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
38085 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
38086 descriptors that they know they will reject.
38088 o Features and updates:
38089 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
38090 significantly faster.
38091 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
38092 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
38093 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
38094 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
38095 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
38096 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
38097 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
38098 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
38099 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
38100 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
38101 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
38102 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
38103 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
38104 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
38105 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
38106 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
38107 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
38108 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
38109 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
38110 as authoritative dirserver.
38111 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
38112 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
38113 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
38116 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
38117 o Usability improvements:
38118 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
38119 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
38121 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
38122 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
38123 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
38125 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
38126 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
38127 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
38128 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
38129 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
38130 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
38131 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
38132 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
38133 memory leaks better.
38134 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
38135 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
38136 their operators to pay close attention.
38137 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
38138 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
38140 o Performance improvements:
38141 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
38142 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
38143 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
38144 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
38145 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
38146 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
38147 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
38148 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
38149 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
38150 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
38151 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
38152 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
38153 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
38154 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
38155 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
38156 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
38157 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
38159 o Security improvements:
38160 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
38161 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
38162 fingerprint of server.
38163 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
38164 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
38165 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
38167 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38168 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
38169 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
38170 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
38171 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
38172 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
38173 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
38174 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
38175 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
38176 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
38177 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
38178 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
38179 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
38180 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
38181 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
38182 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
38183 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
38184 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
38185 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
38186 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
38187 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
38189 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
38190 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
38191 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
38193 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
38194 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
38196 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
38197 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
38198 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
38199 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
38200 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
38201 of the controller protocol.
38202 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
38203 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
38204 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
38207 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
38208 o New features (major):
38209 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
38210 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
38211 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
38212 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
38213 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
38214 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
38215 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
38216 we're using a default DirPort.
38217 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
38219 o New features (minor):
38220 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
38221 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
38222 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
38223 mirrors still cache and serve it).
38224 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
38225 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
38226 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
38227 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
38228 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
38229 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
38230 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
38231 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
38232 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
38233 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
38234 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
38235 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
38236 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
38237 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
38238 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
38240 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
38241 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
38242 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
38243 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
38244 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
38245 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
38246 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
38247 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
38249 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
38250 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
38251 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
38252 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
38253 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
38254 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
38255 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
38256 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
38257 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
38258 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
38260 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
38261 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38262 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38263 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38264 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38266 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38267 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
38268 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
38270 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
38271 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
38273 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
38274 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
38275 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
38276 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
38277 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
38278 don't warn twice about the same name.
38279 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
38280 if we've not heard of the server.
38281 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
38282 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
38285 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
38286 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38287 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
38288 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
38289 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
38290 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38291 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38292 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
38293 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
38294 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
38295 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
38296 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
38297 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
38298 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
38299 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
38302 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
38303 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
38304 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
38305 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
38306 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
38308 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
38309 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
38310 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
38311 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
38312 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
38313 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
38317 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
38318 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
38319 nickname) is reachable by you.
38320 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
38323 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38324 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
38325 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
38326 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
38327 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
38328 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
38329 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
38330 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
38331 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
38332 we fail to connect).
38333 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
38334 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
38335 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
38336 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
38338 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
38339 it was self-testing that told us so.
38342 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
38343 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
38344 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38345 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
38346 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
38347 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
38348 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
38349 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
38350 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
38351 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
38352 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
38353 exit policy using him for any exits.
38354 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
38357 o New controller features/fixes:
38358 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
38359 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
38360 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
38361 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
38362 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
38363 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
38364 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
38365 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
38366 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
38368 o Start on the new directory design:
38369 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
38370 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
38372 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
38373 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
38374 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
38375 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
38377 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
38378 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
38379 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
38380 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
38381 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
38382 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
38383 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
38384 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
38387 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
38388 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
38389 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
38390 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
38391 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
38392 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
38393 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
38394 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
38395 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
38396 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
38398 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
38399 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
38400 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
38401 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
38402 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
38403 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
38404 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
38405 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
38406 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
38408 o Config option changes:
38409 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
38410 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
38411 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
38412 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
38413 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
38414 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
38416 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
38417 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
38418 people have started using them for spam too.
38419 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
38420 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
38421 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
38422 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
38423 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
38424 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
38425 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
38426 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
38427 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
38428 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
38429 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
38430 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
38431 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
38432 services faster on the service end.
38433 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
38434 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
38435 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
38436 it a fair shake next time we try.
38437 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
38438 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
38439 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
38440 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
38441 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
38442 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
38443 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
38444 able to discover them.
38445 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
38446 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
38447 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
38448 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
38449 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
38450 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
38451 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
38452 testing for reachability.
38453 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
38454 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
38456 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
38458 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
38459 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
38462 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
38463 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
38465 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38466 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
38467 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
38468 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
38471 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
38472 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38473 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
38475 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
38476 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
38479 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
38480 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
38483 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
38484 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
38485 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
38486 options, getinfo keys.
38489 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
38490 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38491 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
38492 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38493 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38494 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
38495 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
38497 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
38498 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
38502 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
38503 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38504 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
38506 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
38508 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
38509 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
38510 circuit events and we go offline.
38511 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
38512 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
38513 you don't have enough intro points already.
38515 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
38516 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
38517 many bytes we've used in this time period.
38518 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
38519 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
38520 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
38521 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
38522 enabled by default yet.
38524 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
38525 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
38526 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
38527 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
38528 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
38531 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
38532 o New directory servers:
38533 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38535 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38536 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38537 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38538 pthreads libraries.
38539 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
38540 claims its dirport is 0.
38541 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
38542 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
38546 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
38547 o New directory servers:
38548 - tor26 has changed IP address.
38550 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
38551 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
38553 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
38554 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
38555 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
38556 ports that have changed.
38557 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
38559 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
38560 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
38561 Windows-style errno back.
38562 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
38564 want to make it an NT service.
38565 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
38566 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
38567 name, give the full name in our response.
38568 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
38569 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
38570 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
38571 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
38572 pthreads libraries.
38574 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
38575 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
38579 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
38580 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
38581 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
38582 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
38583 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
38586 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
38587 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
38588 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
38589 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
38590 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38591 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38592 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38593 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
38596 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
38598 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
38599 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
38600 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
38601 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
38602 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
38603 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
38605 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
38606 temporarily unreachable.
38607 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
38611 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
38612 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
38613 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
38614 our protocol works.
38615 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
38619 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
38620 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
38621 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
38622 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
38623 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
38627 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
38628 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
38629 libevent before 1.1a.
38632 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
38634 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
38635 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
38636 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
38637 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
38638 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
38640 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
38641 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
38642 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
38643 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
38644 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
38645 of CPU time plus memory.
38646 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
38647 normal web requests.
38648 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
38649 tor_lookup_hostname().
38650 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
38651 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
38652 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
38653 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
38654 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
38655 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
38657 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
38658 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
38659 HttpProxyAuthenticator
38660 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
38661 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
38662 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
38664 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
38665 the user asks you to.
38666 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
38667 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
38668 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
38669 their descriptors are being rejected.
38670 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
38674 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
38676 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
38677 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
38678 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
38680 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
38682 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
38684 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
38685 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
38686 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
38687 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
38688 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
38689 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
38690 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
38691 keys) from the exit server's process.
38692 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
38693 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
38694 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
38695 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
38696 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
38697 point at your Tor server.
38698 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
38699 you're not sending a socks reply back.
38702 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
38703 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
38704 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
38705 to make it easier to write controllers.
38708 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
38710 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
38711 installing on Tiger.
38712 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
38713 complain during installation.
38714 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
38715 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
38716 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
38717 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
38718 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
38719 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
38721 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
38722 something more reasonable when first installing.
38723 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
38726 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
38728 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
38729 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
38731 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
38732 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
38733 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
38734 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
38735 when using the default exit policy.
38736 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
38737 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
38738 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
38739 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
38740 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
38741 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
38742 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
38743 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
38744 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
38745 we fetched a new directory.
38746 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
38747 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
38750 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
38751 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
38752 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
38753 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
38754 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
38755 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
38756 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
38757 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
38759 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
38760 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
38761 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
38762 save memory on systems that need to fork.
38763 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
38764 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
38765 is valid without actually launching Tor.
38766 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
38767 rather than just rejecting it.
38770 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
38772 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
38773 we didn't like its cert.
38775 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
38776 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
38777 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
38778 on patch from Adam Langley.
38779 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
38780 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
38781 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
38782 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
38784 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
38785 directory every time you regenerate it.
38786 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
38787 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
38790 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
38791 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38792 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38793 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
38794 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
38797 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
38799 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
38800 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
38801 TLS errors better in other situations too.
38802 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
38803 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
38804 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
38805 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
38806 and don't log when you are.
38807 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
38808 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
38810 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
38811 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
38812 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
38813 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
38814 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
38817 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
38818 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38819 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
38820 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
38821 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
38822 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
38823 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
38824 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
38825 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
38826 nickname+key are allowed.
38827 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
38828 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
38829 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
38830 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
38831 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
38832 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
38833 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
38834 have quite wrong clocks).
38835 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
38836 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
38837 - Efficiency improvements:
38838 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
38839 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
38840 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
38841 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
38842 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
38843 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
38844 lowercase and be done with it.
38845 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
38846 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
38847 to abandon partially built circuits.
38848 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
38849 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
38851 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
38853 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
38854 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
38855 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
38856 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
38858 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
38859 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
38861 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
38862 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
38863 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
38864 obeying the exit policy internally.
38865 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
38866 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
38868 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
38869 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
38870 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
38871 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
38873 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
38874 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
38875 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
38876 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
38877 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
38879 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
38880 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
38881 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
38882 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
38883 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
38884 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
38885 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
38886 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
38887 descriptors we just dropped.
38888 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
38889 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
38890 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
38891 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
38892 artificially capped at 500kB.
38895 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
38896 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38897 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
38898 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
38899 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
38900 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
38901 busy for more than 100 seconds.
38904 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
38905 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
38906 - Fixes on reachability detection:
38907 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
38908 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
38909 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
38910 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
38911 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
38912 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
38913 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
38914 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
38915 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
38916 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
38917 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
38918 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
38919 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
38920 server not already connected to them.
38921 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
38922 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
38923 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
38925 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
38927 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
38928 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
38929 are in a different state than they actually are.
38930 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
38931 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
38932 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
38934 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
38935 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
38936 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
38938 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
38939 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
38940 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
38941 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
38942 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
38943 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
38944 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
38946 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
38947 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
38948 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
38949 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
38952 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
38953 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
38954 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
38955 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
38956 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
38957 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
38958 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
38959 creating actual system users.
38960 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
38961 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
38965 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
38967 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
38968 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
38969 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
38970 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
38971 hidden services better.
38972 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
38974 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
38975 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
38976 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
38977 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
38978 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
38979 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
38980 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
38981 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
38982 patch by Matt Edman).
38983 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
38984 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
38985 required exit node for certain sites.
38986 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
38987 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
38988 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
38989 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
38990 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
38991 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
38992 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
38993 rather than just "success" or "failure".
38994 - A more sane version numbering system. See
38995 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
38996 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
38997 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
38999 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
39000 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
39001 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
39002 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
39003 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
39004 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
39005 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
39007 o Robustness/stability fixes:
39008 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
39009 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
39010 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
39012 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
39013 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
39014 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
39016 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
39017 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
39018 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
39020 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
39021 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
39022 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
39023 that will want high uptime circuits.
39024 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
39025 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
39026 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
39027 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
39028 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
39029 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
39030 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
39031 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
39032 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
39033 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
39034 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
39035 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
39036 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
39037 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
39038 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
39039 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
39040 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
39041 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
39042 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
39043 when we try to launch one.
39044 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
39045 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
39046 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
39047 "ShutdownWaitLength".
39048 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
39049 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
39050 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
39051 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
39052 and to take errno into account where possible.
39055 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
39056 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
39057 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
39058 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
39059 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
39060 file more reasonable.
39061 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
39062 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
39063 addresses -- it won't.
39064 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
39065 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
39066 for google.com" problem.
39067 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
39068 so it's not just "unknown platform".
39069 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
39070 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
39071 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
39072 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
39074 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
39075 they could use instead.
39076 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
39077 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
39078 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
39079 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
39080 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
39081 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
39082 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
39083 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
39084 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
39086 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
39090 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
39091 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
39093 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
39094 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
39095 private-IP addresses.
39096 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
39097 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
39099 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
39100 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
39101 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
39102 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
39103 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
39104 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
39105 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
39107 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
39108 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
39109 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
39110 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
39111 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
39112 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
39113 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
39114 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
39116 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
39118 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
39119 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
39120 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
39121 whether the server is hibernating.
39124 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
39125 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
39126 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
39127 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
39128 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
39129 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
39130 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
39131 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
39132 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
39133 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
39134 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
39135 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
39136 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
39137 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
39138 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
39140 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
39141 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
39142 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
39143 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
39144 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
39145 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
39146 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
39147 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
39148 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
39149 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
39150 existing torrc files.
39151 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
39154 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
39155 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
39156 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
39157 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
39158 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
39159 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
39160 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
39161 the win32 SYSTEM account.
39162 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
39163 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
39164 file descriptors available.
39165 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
39166 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
39167 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
39170 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
39171 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39172 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
39173 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
39175 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
39176 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
39177 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
39178 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
39179 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
39181 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
39182 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
39183 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
39184 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
39185 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
39186 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
39187 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
39188 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
39189 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
39190 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
39191 800kB/s of capacity.
39192 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
39195 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
39196 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39197 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
39198 need as much processor time.
39199 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
39200 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
39201 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
39202 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
39203 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
39204 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
39205 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
39206 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
39207 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
39208 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
39209 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
39210 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
39212 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
39213 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
39214 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
39215 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
39216 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
39217 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
39218 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
39221 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
39222 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
39223 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
39225 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
39226 style address, then we'd crash.
39227 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
39228 a dirserver is broken.
39229 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
39231 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
39232 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
39233 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
39235 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
39236 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
39237 name out of the warning/assert messages.
39238 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
39239 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
39240 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
39242 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
39243 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
39244 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
39246 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
39248 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
39249 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
39250 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
39251 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
39252 values at once couldn't work.
39253 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
39254 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
39255 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
39256 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
39257 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
39258 they can handle any number of routers.
39259 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
39260 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
39261 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
39262 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
39263 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
39264 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
39265 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
39266 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
39267 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
39270 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
39271 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
39272 - Make hibernation actually work.
39273 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
39274 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
39275 don't use the stream status code.
39278 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
39280 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
39281 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
39283 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
39286 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
39287 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
39288 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
39289 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
39290 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
39291 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
39292 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
39293 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
39294 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
39295 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
39297 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39298 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
39299 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
39300 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
39301 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
39302 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
39303 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
39304 - Make unit tests work on win32.
39307 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
39308 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39309 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
39311 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
39312 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
39313 than just chopping them off.
39314 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
39316 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39317 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
39318 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
39319 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
39320 right after sending the begin cell.
39321 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
39322 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
39323 exit nodes too. Oops.
39326 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
39327 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
39328 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
39329 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
39330 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
39331 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
39332 the user knows which one it's talking about.
39333 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
39334 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
39335 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
39338 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
39339 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39340 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
39341 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
39343 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
39345 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
39346 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
39347 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
39349 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
39350 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
39351 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
39352 Clip rather than rejecting.
39353 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
39354 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
39357 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
39358 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
39359 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
39360 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
39362 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
39365 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
39366 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39367 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
39368 win32 socket errors better.
39370 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39371 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
39374 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
39375 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39376 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
39377 so we don't see those messages days later.
39379 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39380 - Make tor-resolve work again.
39381 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
39382 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
39385 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
39386 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
39387 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
39388 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
39390 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
39391 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
39392 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
39395 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
39396 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39397 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
39398 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
39399 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
39400 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
39401 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
39402 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
39403 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
39405 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
39406 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
39407 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
39408 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
39410 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
39411 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
39414 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
39415 hibernation properties by
39416 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
39417 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
39418 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
39419 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
39420 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
39421 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
39422 get back to normal.)
39423 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
39425 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
39426 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
39427 to fill the last cell completely.
39428 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
39431 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
39432 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39433 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
39434 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
39435 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
39436 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
39437 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
39438 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
39439 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
39440 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
39441 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
39443 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
39444 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
39445 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
39446 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
39447 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
39448 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
39449 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
39450 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
39452 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
39453 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
39454 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
39455 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
39456 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
39457 have it on start-up.
39460 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
39461 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
39462 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
39463 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
39464 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
39465 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
39466 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
39467 configuration to torrc.
39468 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
39469 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
39470 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
39471 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
39472 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
39474 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
39475 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
39476 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
39477 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
39478 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
39479 log more informatively.
39480 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
39481 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
39482 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
39483 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
39484 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
39485 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
39486 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
39487 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
39488 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
39489 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
39490 from each other, to hinder linkability.
39493 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
39494 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
39495 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
39496 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
39497 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
39498 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
39499 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
39501 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
39502 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
39503 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
39504 they ran out of file descriptors.
39505 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
39506 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
39507 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
39508 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
39509 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
39510 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
39511 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
39513 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
39516 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
39517 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
39518 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
39519 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
39520 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
39521 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
39522 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
39523 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
39524 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
39525 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
39526 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
39527 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
39528 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
39529 with the control port.
39530 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
39531 use in authenticating to the control interface.
39532 - New log format in config:
39533 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
39534 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
39537 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
39538 from their dirserver.
39539 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
39541 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
39542 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
39543 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
39544 them act more like real nodes.
39545 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
39546 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
39548 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
39549 nickname to its identity key.
39550 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
39551 not on the command line.
39552 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
39553 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
39554 1024) file descriptors.
39556 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
39557 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
39559 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
39560 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
39561 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
39564 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
39565 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
39566 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
39567 exit policy, not reject *:*.
39568 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
39569 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
39570 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
39571 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
39572 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
39573 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
39574 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
39577 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
39578 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
39579 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
39580 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
39581 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
39582 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
39583 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
39586 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
39587 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
39588 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
39589 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
39590 the ones we find in directories.)
39591 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
39593 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
39594 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
39596 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
39597 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
39598 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
39600 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
39601 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
39602 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
39603 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
39605 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
39606 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
39607 any more exit policy lines.
39610 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
39611 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
39612 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
39613 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
39614 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
39615 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
39616 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
39617 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
39618 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
39619 will be able to get a directory.
39620 - Http proxy support
39621 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
39622 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
39623 be routed through this host.
39624 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
39625 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
39626 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
39627 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
39630 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
39632 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
39633 clients/servers with an open dirport.
39634 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39635 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39636 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39637 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39638 intermittent connections.
39639 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
39640 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
39642 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
39643 in reporting stats locally.
39644 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
39645 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
39646 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
39649 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
39651 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
39652 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
39655 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
39657 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
39658 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
39659 if you don't want it open.
39660 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
39661 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
39662 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
39663 intermittent connections.
39664 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
39666 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
39667 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
39668 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
39669 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
39670 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
39671 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
39672 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
39673 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
39674 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
39675 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
39676 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
39677 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
39678 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
39679 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
39680 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
39681 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
39684 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
39685 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
39686 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
39687 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
39688 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
39690 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
39692 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
39693 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
39694 specified in HTTP 1.0.
39695 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
39696 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
39697 than once per minute.
39698 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
39699 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
39702 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
39703 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
39706 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
39707 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
39708 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
39709 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
39712 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
39713 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
39715 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
39716 don't put it into the client dns cache.
39717 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
39718 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
39719 until we get our next directory.
39721 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
39722 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
39723 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
39724 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
39725 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
39726 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
39727 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
39728 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
39729 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
39730 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
39731 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
39733 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
39735 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
39736 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
39738 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
39739 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
39740 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
39742 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
39744 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
39745 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
39746 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
39747 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
39748 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
39749 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
39750 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
39751 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
39754 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
39755 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
39756 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
39757 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
39760 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
39761 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
39762 ask them to resolve the host "".
39765 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
39766 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39767 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
39768 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
39769 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
39770 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
39771 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
39772 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
39773 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
39774 clients don't use this yet.)
39775 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
39776 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
39777 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
39778 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
39779 for pointing out this bug.)
39780 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
39781 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
39782 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
39783 kazaa, gnutella ports.
39784 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
39786 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
39787 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
39788 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
39789 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
39790 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
39791 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
39792 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
39793 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
39794 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
39795 wolf unpredictably.
39796 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
39797 that's still handshaking.
39798 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
39799 you'll choose it for your path.
39800 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
39801 end relay cell, etc.
39802 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
39803 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
39804 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
39807 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
39808 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
39810 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
39811 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
39812 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
39813 list to decide who's running or verified.
39814 - Bugfixes and features:
39815 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
39816 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
39817 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
39818 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
39819 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
39820 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
39822 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
39823 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
39824 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
39825 know you might want to get it verified.
39826 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
39829 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
39831 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
39832 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
39833 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
39834 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
39836 o Protocol changes:
39837 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
39838 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
39839 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
39840 hadn't heard of before.
39843 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
39844 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
39845 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
39846 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
39847 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
39848 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
39849 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
39850 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
39851 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
39852 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
39853 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
39854 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
39855 - Directory caching.
39856 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
39857 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
39858 directory they've pulled down.
39859 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
39860 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
39861 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
39862 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
39863 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
39864 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
39865 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
39867 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
39868 This isn't used yet.
39869 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
39870 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
39871 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
39872 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
39873 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
39874 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
39875 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
39876 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
39877 - File and name management:
39878 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
39879 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
39881 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
39882 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
39883 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
39884 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
39885 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
39886 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
39887 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
39889 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
39890 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
39891 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
39892 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
39893 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
39895 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
39896 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
39897 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
39898 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
39899 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
39900 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
39901 - New docs in the tarball:
39903 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
39906 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
39907 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
39908 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
39911 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
39912 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
39913 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
39916 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
39917 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
39920 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
39921 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
39922 - Make it build on Win32 again.
39923 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
39924 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
39928 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
39930 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
39931 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
39932 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
39933 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
39934 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
39935 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
39936 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
39937 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
39938 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
39939 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
39942 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
39945 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
39946 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
39947 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
39948 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
39950 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
39951 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
39952 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
39954 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
39955 hidden service per 15-minute period.
39956 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
39957 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
39958 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
39959 o Fixes for security bugs:
39960 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
39961 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
39962 a trusted dirserver.
39964 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
39965 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
39966 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
39967 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
39968 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
39969 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
39970 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
39971 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
39972 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
39973 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
39975 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
39976 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
39977 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
39978 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
39980 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
39981 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
39982 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
39983 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
39984 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
39985 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
39986 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
39987 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
39988 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
39989 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
39990 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
39991 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
39992 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
39995 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
39996 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
39997 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
39998 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
40001 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
40002 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
40003 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
40004 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
40005 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
40006 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
40007 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
40011 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
40012 [version bump only]
40015 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
40016 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
40017 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
40018 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
40019 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
40021 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
40024 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
40025 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
40026 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
40027 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
40028 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
40029 o Better debugging for tls errors
40030 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
40031 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
40032 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
40033 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
40034 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
40035 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
40036 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
40037 o win32's close can't close a socket.
40040 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
40041 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
40042 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
40043 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
40044 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
40045 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
40046 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
40047 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
40048 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
40049 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
40050 just close the circ.
40051 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
40052 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
40053 (this was quite rare).
40056 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
40057 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
40058 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
40059 if you decrypted them correctly.
40060 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
40061 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
40062 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
40065 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
40066 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
40067 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
40068 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
40069 a second one and it works.
40070 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
40071 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
40072 alice would just have to wait to time out.
40073 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
40074 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
40075 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
40076 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
40077 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
40078 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
40079 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
40080 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
40081 i'd still like to find the bug though.
40082 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
40084 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
40088 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
40089 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
40090 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
40091 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
40092 he retries a couple of times
40093 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
40094 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
40095 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
40096 too long (they were sticking around forever).
40097 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
40101 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
40102 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
40103 - make hup work again
40104 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
40105 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
40106 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
40107 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
40108 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
40109 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
40111 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
40112 o changes from 0.0.5:
40113 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
40114 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
40115 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
40116 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
40117 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
40119 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
40120 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
40121 in-memory directories too
40124 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
40125 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
40128 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
40130 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
40131 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
40132 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
40133 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
40136 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
40137 [version bump only]
40140 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
40141 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
40143 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
40144 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
40145 but that aren't warnings
40148 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
40149 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
40150 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
40151 the dns farm to do it.
40152 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
40153 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
40155 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
40156 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
40157 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
40160 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
40161 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
40162 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
40163 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
40164 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
40165 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
40166 expect it to have a nickname.
40167 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
40168 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
40171 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
40172 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
40176 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
40177 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
40178 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
40179 - include missing header fcntl.h
40180 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
40181 - deal with hardware word alignment
40182 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
40183 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
40184 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
40185 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
40186 by kill -USR1 currently.
40187 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
40188 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
40189 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
40192 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
40193 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
40194 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
40197 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
40199 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
40200 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
40201 - And fix a few endian issues.
40204 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
40206 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
40207 try that circuit again: try a new one.
40208 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
40209 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
40210 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
40211 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
40212 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
40213 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
40215 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
40216 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
40217 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
40219 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
40221 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
40222 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
40223 side isn't reading right then.
40224 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
40225 RecommendedVersions
40226 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
40227 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
40228 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
40231 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
40233 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
40234 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
40237 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
40241 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
40243 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
40244 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
40245 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
40246 connection is finished.
40247 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
40248 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
40249 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
40250 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
40251 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
40252 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
40253 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
40254 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
40255 rather than warn and continue.
40256 - Make --version work
40257 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
40260 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
40262 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
40263 knows it's working.
40264 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
40265 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
40267 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
40268 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
40269 so you can collect coredumps there.
40271 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
40272 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
40273 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
40274 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
40275 dns cache actually gets populated.
40276 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
40277 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
40278 end cell down it first.
40279 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
40280 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
40283 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
40285 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
40286 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
40288 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
40289 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
40290 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
40291 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
40292 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
40293 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
40295 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
40297 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
40298 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
40299 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
40300 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
40301 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
40302 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
40304 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
40305 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
40308 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
40310 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
40311 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
40312 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
40313 tor. It even has a man page.
40314 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
40315 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
40316 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
40317 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
40319 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
40321 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
40324 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
40326 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
40327 it, apt-getters. :)
40328 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
40329 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
40330 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
40331 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
40332 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
40333 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
40334 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
40335 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
40336 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
40337 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
40338 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
40340 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
40341 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
40344 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
40346 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
40347 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
40350 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
40352 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
40353 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
40354 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
40355 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
40356 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
40357 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
40358 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
40359 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
40360 logfile so you know it's working.
40361 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
40362 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
40365 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
40367 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
40368 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
40369 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
40372 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
40374 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
40375 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
40376 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
40379 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
40380 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
40381 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
40383 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
40384 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
40386 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
40387 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
40388 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
40390 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
40391 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
40395 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
40397 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
40398 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
40399 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
40402 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
40403 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
40404 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
40405 - Add port ranges to exit policies
40406 - Add a conservative default exit policy
40407 - Warn if you're running tor as root
40408 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
40409 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
40410 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
40411 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
40413 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
40416 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
40417 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40418 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
40419 really screw things up.
40420 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
40422 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
40423 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
40425 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
40426 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
40427 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
40428 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
40429 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
40430 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
40433 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
40436 - Change default loglevel to warn.
40437 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
40438 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
40440 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
40443 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
40444 o Robustness and bugfixes:
40445 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
40446 - to get ownership/permissions right
40447 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
40448 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
40449 pull down a directory again
40450 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
40451 causing server crashes
40452 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
40453 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
40454 - exit if bind() fails
40455 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
40456 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
40457 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
40458 - fix minor bias in PRNG
40459 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
40462 - Wrote the design document (woo)
40464 o Circuit building and exit policies:
40465 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
40467 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
40468 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
40469 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
40470 exists, rather than failing
40471 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
40472 which AP connections are standing by
40473 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
40474 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
40475 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
40477 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
40478 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
40481 - APPort is now called SocksPort
40482 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
40484 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
40485 hardcoded (for dirservers)
40486 - Reloads config on HUP
40487 - Usage info on -h or --help
40488 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
40491 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
40492 o General stability:
40493 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
40494 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
40495 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
40496 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
40497 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
40498 to take down the network when I approve a new router
40499 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
40502 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
40503 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
40505 o Autoconf improvements:
40506 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
40507 - Make install now works
40508 - create var/lib/tor on make install
40509 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
40510 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
40512 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
40513 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
40514 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
40515 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup