1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.8.11 - 2024-04-10
6 This is a minor release mostly to upgrade the fallbackdir list.
7 Directory authorities running this version will now automatically
8 reject relays running the end of life 0.4.7.x version.
10 o Minor features (directory authorities):
11 - Reject 0.4.7.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40896.
12 - New IP address and keys for tor26.
13 - Allow BandwidthFiles "node_id" KeyValue without the dollar sign at
14 the start of the hexdigit, in order to easier database queries
15 combining Tor documents in which the relays fingerprint does not
16 include it. Fixes bug 40891; bugfix on 0.4.7 (all supported
19 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
20 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 10, 2024.
22 o Minor features (geoip data):
23 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
24 retrieved on 2024/04/10.
26 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
27 - Add a warning when publishing a vote or signatures to another
28 directory authority fails. Fixes bug 40910; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
31 Changes in version 0.4.8.10 - 2023-12-08
32 This is a security release fixing a high severity bug (TROVE-2023-007)
33 affecting Exit relays supporting Conflux. We strongly recommend to update as
36 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-007, exit):
37 - Improper error propagation from a safety check in conflux leg
38 linking led to a desynchronization of which legs were part of a
39 conflux set, ultimately causing a UAF and NULL pointer dereference
40 crash on Exit relays. Fixes bug 40897; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
42 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
43 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 08, 2023.
45 o Minor features (geoip data):
46 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
47 retrieved on 2023/12/08.
49 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, statistics):
50 - Correctly report statistics for client count over pluggable
51 transports. Fixes bug 40871; bugfix on 0.4.8.4.
54 Changes in version 0.4.8.9 - 2023-11-09
55 This is another security release fixing a high severity bug affecting onion
56 services which is tracked by TROVE-2023-006. We are also releasing a guard
57 major bugfix as well. If you are an onion service operator, we strongly
58 recommend to update as soon as possible.
60 o Major bugfixes (guard usage):
61 - When Tor excluded a guard due to temporary circuit restrictions,
62 it considered *additional* primary guards for potential usage by
63 that circuit. This could result in more than the specified number
64 of guards (currently 2) being used, long-term, by the tor client.
65 This could happen when a Guard was also selected as an Exit node,
66 but it was exacerbated by the Conflux guard restrictions. Both
67 instances have been fixed. Fixes bug 40876; bugfix
70 o Major bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2023-006):
71 - Fix a possible hard assert on a NULL pointer when recording a
72 failed rendezvous circuit on the service side for the MetricsPort.
73 Fixes bug 40883; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
75 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
76 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 09, 2023.
78 o Minor features (geoip data):
79 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
80 retrieved on 2023/11/09.
83 Changes in version 0.4.8.8 - 2023-11-03
84 We are releasing today a fix for a high security issue, TROVE-2023-004, that
85 is affecting relays. Also a few minor bugfixes detailed below. Please upgrade
88 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2023-004, relay):
89 - Mitigate an issue when Tor compiled with OpenSSL can crash during
90 handshake with a remote relay. Fixes bug 40874; bugfix
93 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
94 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 03, 2023.
96 o Minor features (geoip data):
97 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
98 retrieved on 2023/11/03.
100 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
101 - Look at the network parameter "maxunmeasuredbw" with the correct
102 spelling. Fixes bug 40869; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
104 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards addon support):
105 - Count the conflux linked cell as valid when it is successfully
106 processed. This will quiet a spurious warn in the vanguards addon.
107 Fixes bug 40878; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
110 Changes in version 0.4.8.7 - 2023-09-25
111 This version fixes a single major bug in the Conflux subsystem on the client
112 side. See below for more information. The upcoming Tor Browser 13 stable will
115 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
116 - Fix an issue that prevented us from pre-building more conflux sets
117 after existing sets had been used. Fixes bug 40862; bugfix
120 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
121 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 25, 2023.
123 o Minor features (geoip data):
124 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
125 retrieved on 2023/09/25.
128 Changes in version 0.4.8.6 - 2023-09-18
129 This version contains an important fix for onion service regarding congestion
130 control and its reliability. Apart from that, unneeded BUG warnings have been
131 suppressed especially about a compression bomb seen on relays. We strongly
132 recommend, in particular onion service operators, to upgrade as soon as
133 possible to this latest stable.
135 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
136 - Fix a reliability issue where services were expiring their
137 introduction points every consensus update. This caused
138 connectivity issues for clients caching the old descriptor and
139 intro points. Bug reported and fixed by gitlab user
140 @hyunsoo.kim676. Fixes bug 40858; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
142 o Minor features (debugging, compression):
143 - Log the input and output buffer sizes when we detect a potential
144 compression bomb. Diagnostic for ticket 40739.
146 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
147 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on September 18, 2023.
149 o Minor features (geoip data):
150 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
151 retrieved on 2023/09/18.
153 o Minor bugfix (defensive programming):
154 - Disable multiple BUG warnings of a missing relay identity key when
155 starting an instance of Tor compiled without relay support. Fixes
156 bug 40848; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
158 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
159 - When reporting a pseudo-networkstatus as a bridge authority, or
160 answering "ns/purpose/*" controller requests, include accurate
161 published-on dates from our list of router descriptors. Fixes bug
162 40855; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
164 o Minor bugfixes (compression, zstd):
165 - Use less frightening language and lower the log-level of our run-
166 time ABI compatibility check message in our Zstd compression
167 subsystem. Fixes bug 40815; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
170 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
171 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
172 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
173 failures and PoW unit test.
175 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
176 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
178 o Minor features (geoip data):
179 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
180 retrieved on 2023/08/30.
182 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
183 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
184 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
185 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
187 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
188 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
189 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
190 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
192 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
193 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
194 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
195 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
196 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
197 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
198 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
202 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
203 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
204 among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
205 available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
208 o Major feature (denial of service):
209 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
210 Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
211 onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
213 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
214 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
215 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
216 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
217 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
218 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
220 o Major features (conflux):
221 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
222 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
223 circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
224 pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
225 circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
226 the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
227 throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
228 Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
229 when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
230 latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
231 arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
232 protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
234 o Major features (dirauth):
235 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
236 authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
237 upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
238 the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
239 consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
240 address. Implements ticket 40705.
242 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
243 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
244 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
245 log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
248 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
249 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
250 between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
251 set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
252 last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
253 to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
255 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
256 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
257 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
259 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
260 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
261 Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
262 list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
263 wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
264 make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
266 o Minor features (bridge):
267 - warn when a bridge is also configure to be an exit relay.
270 o Minor features (geoip data):
271 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
272 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
274 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
275 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
277 o Minor features (testing):
278 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
279 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
280 run as part of GitLab CI.
282 o Minor feature (CI):
283 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
285 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
286 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
287 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
289 o Minor feature (compilation):
290 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
291 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
294 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
295 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
296 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
297 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
299 o Minor feature (lzma):
300 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
302 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
303 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
306 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
307 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
308 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
310 o Minor features (directory authorities):
311 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
312 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
313 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
314 Implements ticket 40753.
316 o Minor features (directory authority):
317 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
318 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
319 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
320 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
321 40130; implements proposal 275.
323 o Minor features (network documents):
324 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
325 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
326 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
327 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
329 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
330 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
332 o Minor features (geoip data):
333 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
334 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
336 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
337 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
338 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
339 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
341 o Minor features (metrics):
342 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
343 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
344 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
345 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
347 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
348 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
349 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
351 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
352 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
353 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
355 o Minor features (relay):
356 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
357 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
359 o Minor features (relays):
360 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
361 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
362 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
363 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
365 o Minor features (tests):
366 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
367 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
370 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
373 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
374 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
375 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
377 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
378 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
379 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
380 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
381 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
384 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
385 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
386 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
388 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
389 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
390 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
392 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
393 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
394 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
395 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
396 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
397 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
398 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
399 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
400 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
402 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
403 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
404 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
405 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
407 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
408 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
409 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
410 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
411 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
412 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
413 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
414 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
416 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
417 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
418 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
419 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
420 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
421 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
423 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
424 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
427 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
428 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
429 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
430 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
431 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
432 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
434 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
435 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
436 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
438 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
439 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
440 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
441 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
442 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
444 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
445 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
446 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
448 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
449 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
450 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
451 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
453 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
454 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
455 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
457 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
458 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
459 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
461 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
462 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
463 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
464 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
465 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
466 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
467 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
468 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
470 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
471 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
472 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
473 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
476 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
477 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
478 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
481 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
482 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
483 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
484 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
485 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
486 congestion control fix detailed below.
488 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
489 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
490 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
491 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
492 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
493 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
494 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
496 o Major bugfixes (relay):
497 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
498 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
499 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
500 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
501 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
502 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
505 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
506 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
507 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
508 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
509 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
511 o Minor feature (authority):
512 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
514 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
515 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
517 o Minor features (geoip data):
518 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
519 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
521 o Minor features (relays):
522 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
523 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
524 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
525 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
528 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
529 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
530 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
532 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
533 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
534 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
535 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
537 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
538 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
539 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
540 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
543 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
544 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
545 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
546 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
549 o Major bugfixes (relay):
550 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
551 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
552 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
553 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
554 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
555 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
558 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
559 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
560 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
561 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
562 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
564 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
565 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
567 o Minor features (geoip data):
568 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
569 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
572 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
573 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
574 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
577 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
578 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
579 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
580 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
581 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
583 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
584 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
587 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
588 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
590 o Minor features (geoip data):
591 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
592 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
594 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
595 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
596 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
599 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
600 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
601 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
602 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
604 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
605 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
607 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
608 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
609 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
611 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
612 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
613 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
614 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
615 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
617 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
618 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
619 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
620 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
621 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
624 o Major bugfixes (relay):
625 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
626 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
628 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
629 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
631 o Minor features (geoip data):
632 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
633 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
636 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
637 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
638 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
639 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
642 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
643 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
645 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
646 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
647 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
648 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
650 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
651 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
652 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
653 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
654 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
656 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
657 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
658 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
659 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
660 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
662 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
663 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
664 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
665 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
666 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
669 o Major bugfixes (relay):
670 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
671 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
673 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
674 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
675 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
676 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
677 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
678 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
680 o Minor feature (metrics):
681 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
684 o Minor feature (performance):
685 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
686 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
687 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
689 o Minor feature (relay):
690 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
692 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
693 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
694 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
695 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
697 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
698 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
699 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
700 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
701 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
703 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
704 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
705 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
706 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
707 are currently opened and how many were created.
708 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
709 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
710 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
711 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
712 - Related to ticket 40194.
714 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
715 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
717 o Minor features (geoip data):
718 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
719 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
721 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
722 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
723 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
725 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
726 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
727 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
728 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
729 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
730 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
731 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
732 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
733 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
734 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
735 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
737 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
738 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
739 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
742 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
743 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
744 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
747 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
748 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
749 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
750 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
751 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
752 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
753 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
755 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
756 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
757 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
760 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
761 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
762 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
763 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
766 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
767 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
768 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
769 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
770 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
773 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
774 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
775 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
776 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
779 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
780 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
781 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
782 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
783 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
786 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
787 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
788 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
789 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
792 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
793 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
794 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
795 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
796 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
799 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
800 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
801 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
802 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
803 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
806 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
807 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
809 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
810 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
811 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
812 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
813 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
814 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
815 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
816 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
817 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
820 o Major bugfixes (relay):
821 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
822 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
823 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
824 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
825 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
826 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
827 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
829 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
830 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
831 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
832 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
833 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
836 o Minor features (dirauth):
837 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
838 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
839 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
840 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
841 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
842 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
843 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
844 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
847 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
848 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
850 o Minor features (geoip data):
851 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
852 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
854 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
855 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
856 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
857 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
858 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
859 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
860 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
862 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
863 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
864 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
865 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
866 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
868 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
869 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
870 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
871 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
874 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
875 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
876 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
877 stability or safety purposes.
879 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
880 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
881 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
883 o Major bugfixes (relay):
884 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
885 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
886 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
887 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
888 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
889 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
890 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
892 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
893 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
895 o Minor features (geoip data):
896 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
897 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
899 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
900 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
901 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
903 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
904 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
905 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
906 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
907 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
908 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
910 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
911 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
912 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
913 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
914 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
916 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
917 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
918 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
919 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
921 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
922 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
923 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
924 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
925 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
927 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
928 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
929 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
931 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
932 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
933 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
934 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
935 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
936 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
938 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
939 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
940 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
941 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
944 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
945 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
946 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
947 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
948 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
950 o Major bugfixes (relay):
951 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
952 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
953 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
954 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
955 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
956 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
957 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
959 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
960 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
962 o Minor features (geoip data):
963 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
964 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
966 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
967 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
968 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
970 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
971 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
972 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
973 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
974 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
975 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
977 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
978 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
979 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
980 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
981 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
983 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
984 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
985 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
986 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
988 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
989 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
990 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
991 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
992 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
994 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
995 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
996 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
998 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
999 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1000 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1001 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1002 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1003 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1005 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1006 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
1007 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
1008 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
1011 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
1012 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
1013 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
1014 should upgrade to this version.
1016 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
1017 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
1018 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
1019 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
1020 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
1021 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1023 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1024 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
1026 o Minor features (geoip data):
1027 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1028 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
1030 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1031 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
1032 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
1033 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
1035 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1036 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
1037 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
1038 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
1039 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1040 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
1041 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
1042 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
1043 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1045 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
1046 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
1047 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
1050 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
1051 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
1052 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
1053 including one massive new one: congestion control.
1055 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
1056 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
1057 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
1059 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
1061 o Major features (congestion control):
1062 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
1063 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
1065 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
1066 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
1067 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
1068 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
1070 o Major features (directory authority):
1071 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
1072 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
1073 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
1074 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
1075 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
1076 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
1077 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
1078 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
1079 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
1081 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
1082 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
1083 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
1084 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
1085 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
1086 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
1087 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
1088 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
1089 40363; implements proposal 333.
1091 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
1092 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
1093 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
1094 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
1095 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1097 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1098 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
1099 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
1100 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
1101 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
1102 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
1103 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
1104 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
1107 o Major bugfixes (client):
1108 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
1109 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
1110 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
1111 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
1112 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
1113 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
1115 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
1116 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
1117 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
1118 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1120 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
1121 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
1122 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
1123 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
1124 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
1125 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1127 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1128 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1129 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1130 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1131 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1132 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1133 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1135 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1136 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
1137 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
1138 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1139 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
1140 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
1141 and not the DNS server itself.
1142 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
1143 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
1144 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
1145 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1146 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1147 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1148 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1150 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
1151 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
1152 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
1153 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
1156 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
1157 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
1158 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
1159 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
1160 Closes ticket 40476.
1161 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1162 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1164 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1165 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1166 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1169 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1170 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1171 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1172 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1174 o Minor features (compilation):
1175 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1176 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1177 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1178 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1181 o Minor features (control port):
1182 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
1183 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
1185 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1186 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
1188 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1189 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1190 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1191 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1193 o Minor features (geoip data):
1194 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1195 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1197 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1198 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1199 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1200 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1201 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1202 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1203 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1205 o Minor features (portability):
1206 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1207 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1208 Closes ticket 40355.
1210 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1211 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1212 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1213 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1214 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1215 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1216 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1217 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1218 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1219 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1220 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1221 fix for ticket 40337.
1222 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1223 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1224 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1226 o Minor features (testing):
1227 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1228 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1231 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1232 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
1233 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1235 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1236 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1237 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1239 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1240 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1241 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1242 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1244 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1245 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1246 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1249 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1250 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1251 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1252 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1253 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1254 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1255 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1256 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1258 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1259 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1260 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1261 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1264 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1265 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1266 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1267 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1269 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1270 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1271 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1272 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1273 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1276 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1277 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1278 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1279 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1280 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1281 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1282 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1283 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1284 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1286 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1287 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1288 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1290 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1291 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
1292 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
1295 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1296 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1297 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1298 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1299 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1301 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1302 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1303 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1304 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1305 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1306 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1308 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1309 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1310 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1311 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1314 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1315 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1316 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1318 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1319 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1320 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1321 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1322 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1323 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1324 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1325 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1327 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1328 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1329 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1330 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1332 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1333 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1334 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1335 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1336 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1337 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1338 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1339 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1340 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1342 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1343 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1344 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1345 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1347 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1348 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1349 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1350 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1353 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1354 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1355 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1356 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1357 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1359 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1360 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1361 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1362 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1363 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1364 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1365 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1366 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1367 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1369 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1370 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1371 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1372 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1374 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1375 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1376 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1377 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1379 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1380 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1381 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1382 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1383 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1384 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1385 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1386 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1387 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1389 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1390 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1391 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1392 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1393 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1394 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1397 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1398 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1399 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1400 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1402 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1403 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1404 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1405 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1406 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1408 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1409 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1410 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1411 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1412 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1414 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1415 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1416 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1417 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1419 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1420 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1421 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1423 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1424 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1425 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1426 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1427 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1429 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1430 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1431 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1432 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1433 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1435 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1436 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1437 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1438 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1439 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1442 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1443 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1445 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1446 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1447 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1448 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1449 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1450 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1453 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1456 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1457 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1458 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1460 o Documentation (man, relay):
1461 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1462 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1464 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1465 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1466 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1470 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1471 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1472 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1474 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1475 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1477 o Minor features (geoip data):
1478 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1479 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1481 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1482 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1483 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1485 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1486 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1487 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1490 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1491 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1492 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1495 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1496 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1497 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1498 See below for more details.
1500 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1501 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1502 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1503 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1504 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1506 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1507 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1508 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1511 o Minor features (compilation):
1512 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1513 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1514 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1515 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1518 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1519 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1521 o Minor features (geoip data):
1522 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1523 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1525 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1526 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1527 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1528 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1529 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1531 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1532 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1533 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1534 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1535 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1537 o Documentation (man, relay):
1538 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1539 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1542 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1543 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1544 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1547 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1548 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1549 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1550 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1551 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1552 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1553 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1555 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1556 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1559 o Minor features (testing):
1560 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1561 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1562 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1563 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1564 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1565 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1566 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1567 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1568 fix for ticket 40337.
1569 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1570 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1571 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1573 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1574 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1575 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1576 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1577 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1578 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1579 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1580 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1582 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1583 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1584 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1586 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1587 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1588 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1589 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1590 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1593 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1594 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1595 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1596 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1597 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1598 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1601 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1602 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1603 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1604 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1605 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1606 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1607 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1610 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1611 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1612 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1613 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1614 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1616 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1617 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1618 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1619 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1621 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1622 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1623 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1624 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1626 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1627 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1630 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1631 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1632 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1633 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1634 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1636 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1637 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1638 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1639 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1640 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1641 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1642 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1643 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1644 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1645 fix for ticket 40337.
1646 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1647 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1648 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1650 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1651 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1652 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1654 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1655 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1656 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1657 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1658 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1659 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1661 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1662 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1663 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1664 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1665 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1668 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1669 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1670 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1671 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1672 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1674 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1675 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1676 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1677 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1678 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1679 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1682 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1683 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1684 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1685 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1686 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1687 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1688 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1691 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1692 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1693 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1694 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1695 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1697 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1698 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1699 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1700 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1702 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1703 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1704 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1705 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1707 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1708 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1711 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1712 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1713 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1714 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1715 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1719 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1720 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1721 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1722 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1723 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1725 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1726 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1727 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1728 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1729 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1730 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1731 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1734 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1735 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1737 o Minor features (geoip data):
1738 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1739 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1741 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1742 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1743 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1745 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1746 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1747 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1749 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1750 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1751 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1753 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1754 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1755 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1756 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1758 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1759 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1760 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1761 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1762 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1763 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1764 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1767 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1768 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1769 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1770 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1771 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1773 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1774 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1775 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1776 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1777 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1778 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1779 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1782 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1783 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1785 o Minor features (geoip data):
1786 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1787 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1789 o Minor features (testing):
1790 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1791 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1793 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1794 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1795 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1797 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1798 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1799 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1801 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1802 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1803 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1804 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1805 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1806 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1807 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1809 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1810 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1811 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1814 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1815 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1816 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1817 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1818 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1820 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1821 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1822 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1823 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1824 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1825 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1826 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1829 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1830 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1832 o Minor features (geoip data):
1833 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1834 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1836 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1837 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1838 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1840 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1841 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1842 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1845 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1846 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1847 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1848 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1849 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1851 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1852 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1853 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1854 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1855 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1856 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1858 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1859 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1860 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1864 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1865 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1866 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1867 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1868 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1871 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1872 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1873 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1874 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1876 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1877 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1879 o Major bugfixes (security):
1880 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1881 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1882 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1883 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1884 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1885 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1887 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1888 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1889 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1890 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1891 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1892 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1893 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1894 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1896 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1897 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1898 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1899 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1900 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1901 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1902 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1903 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1904 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1905 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1906 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1907 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1908 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1909 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1910 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1912 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1913 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1914 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1915 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1918 o Major features (directory authority):
1919 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1920 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1921 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1922 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1924 o Major features (metrics):
1925 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1926 documents. This information is controlled with the
1927 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1928 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1929 328; closes ticket 40222.
1931 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1932 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1933 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1935 o Major features (statistics):
1936 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1937 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1938 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1940 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1941 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1942 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1943 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1944 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1945 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1946 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1947 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1948 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1949 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1950 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1951 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1952 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1953 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1954 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1955 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1956 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1957 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1958 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1959 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1962 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1963 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1964 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1965 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1967 o Minor features (bridge):
1968 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1969 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1970 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1972 o Minor features (build system):
1973 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1974 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1975 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1977 o Minor features (client):
1978 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1979 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1980 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1981 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1983 o Minor features (command line):
1984 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1985 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1988 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1989 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1990 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1991 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1992 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1993 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1994 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1995 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1996 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1997 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1998 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2000 o Minor features (compatibility):
2001 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2002 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2003 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2006 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
2007 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
2008 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2010 o Minor features (dormant mode):
2011 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
2012 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
2013 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2014 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
2015 control over whether the client can become dormant from
2016 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
2018 o Minor features (geoip data):
2019 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2020 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2022 o Minor features (logging):
2023 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
2024 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
2026 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
2027 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
2028 any). Closes ticket 40308.
2029 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
2030 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
2031 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2033 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
2034 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
2035 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
2036 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
2037 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
2039 o Minor features (onion services):
2040 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
2041 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
2043 o Minor features (performance, windows):
2044 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
2045 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
2046 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
2047 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2049 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2050 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
2051 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
2053 o Minor features (tests, portability):
2054 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
2055 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
2058 o Minor features (vote document):
2059 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
2060 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
2061 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
2063 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2064 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
2065 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
2066 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2068 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
2069 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
2070 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
2071 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
2074 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2075 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
2076 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
2077 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2079 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
2080 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
2081 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
2082 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
2083 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2085 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
2086 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2087 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2088 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2089 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2090 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2093 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
2094 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
2095 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
2096 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
2097 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
2098 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
2100 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
2101 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
2102 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
2103 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
2104 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2106 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
2107 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
2108 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
2109 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
2110 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2112 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
2113 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
2114 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2116 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2117 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2118 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2121 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
2122 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
2123 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
2124 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2126 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2127 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
2128 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
2129 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2131 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
2132 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2133 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2136 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2137 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
2138 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
2139 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2142 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
2143 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
2144 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
2145 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
2146 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
2147 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
2148 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
2149 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
2150 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
2151 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
2154 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
2155 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
2156 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
2158 o Documentation (manual):
2159 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
2161 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
2162 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
2163 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
2164 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
2166 o Removed features (relay):
2167 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
2168 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2169 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2170 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2171 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2174 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
2175 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2176 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2177 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2178 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2180 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2181 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2182 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2183 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2184 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2185 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2186 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2188 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2189 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2190 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2191 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2192 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2193 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2194 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2195 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2197 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2198 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2199 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2200 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2201 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2202 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2203 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2204 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2205 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2206 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2207 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2208 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2209 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2210 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2211 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2213 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2214 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2215 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2216 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2219 o Minor features (geoip data):
2220 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2221 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2223 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2224 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2225 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2226 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2227 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2228 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2231 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2232 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2233 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2237 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2238 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2239 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2240 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2241 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2243 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2244 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2245 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2247 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2248 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2249 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2250 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2251 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2252 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2253 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2255 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2256 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2257 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2258 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2259 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2260 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2261 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2262 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2264 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2265 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2266 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2267 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2268 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2269 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2270 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2271 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2272 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2273 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2274 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2275 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2276 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2277 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2278 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2280 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2281 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2282 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2283 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2286 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2287 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2288 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2290 o Minor features (geoip data):
2291 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2292 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2294 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2295 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2296 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2297 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2299 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2300 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2301 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2304 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2305 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2306 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2307 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2308 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2310 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2311 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2312 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2313 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2314 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2315 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2316 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2318 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2319 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2320 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2321 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2322 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2323 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2324 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2325 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2327 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2328 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2329 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2330 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2331 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2332 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2333 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2334 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2335 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2336 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2337 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2338 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2339 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2340 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2341 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2343 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2344 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2345 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2347 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2348 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2349 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2350 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2353 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2354 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2355 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2357 o Minor features (geoip data):
2358 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2359 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2362 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2363 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2364 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2366 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2367 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2368 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2369 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2370 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2372 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2373 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2374 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2376 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2377 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2378 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2380 o Minor features (geoip data):
2381 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2382 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2384 o Minor features (onion services):
2385 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2386 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2387 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2389 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2390 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2391 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2392 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2394 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2395 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2396 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2397 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2399 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2400 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2401 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2402 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2404 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2405 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2406 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2408 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2409 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2410 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2411 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2413 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2414 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2415 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2416 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2418 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2419 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2420 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2424 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2425 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2426 in earlier versions of Tor.
2428 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2429 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2430 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2431 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2432 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2433 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2434 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2435 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2436 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2439 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2440 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2443 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2444 compatibility issue.
2446 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2447 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2448 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2449 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2450 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2451 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2452 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2453 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2454 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2457 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2458 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2459 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2460 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2461 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2462 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2463 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2464 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2467 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2468 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2469 Closes ticket 40309.
2472 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2473 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2474 in earlier versions of Tor.
2476 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2477 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2478 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2479 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2480 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2481 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2482 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2483 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2484 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2487 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2488 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2491 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2492 compatibility issue.
2494 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2495 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2496 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2497 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2498 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2499 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2500 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2501 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2502 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2505 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2506 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2507 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2508 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2509 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2510 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2511 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2512 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2515 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2516 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2517 Closes ticket 40309.
2520 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2521 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2524 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2525 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2526 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2527 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2528 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2529 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2530 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2531 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2532 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2535 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2536 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2539 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2540 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2542 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2543 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2544 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2545 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2546 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2547 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2548 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2549 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2550 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2553 o Minor features (geoip data):
2554 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2555 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2556 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2557 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2558 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2559 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2560 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2563 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2564 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2565 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2566 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2567 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2569 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2570 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2571 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2573 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2574 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2575 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2576 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2577 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2579 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2580 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2581 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2583 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2584 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2585 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2587 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2588 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2589 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2591 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2592 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2593 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2594 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2595 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2596 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2597 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2598 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2600 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2601 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2602 Closes ticket 40309.
2605 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2606 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2607 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2608 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2609 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2610 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2611 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2612 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2613 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2614 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2616 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2617 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2618 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2619 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2620 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2621 smaller features and bugfixes.
2623 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2624 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2626 o Major features (build):
2627 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2628 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2629 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2630 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2631 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2633 o Major features (metrics):
2634 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2635 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2636 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2637 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2638 information and security considerations.
2640 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2641 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2642 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2643 Closes ticket 33233.
2644 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2645 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2646 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2647 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2648 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2649 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2650 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2651 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2652 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2653 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2654 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2655 Closes ticket 34067.
2657 o Major features (tracing):
2658 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2659 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2660 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2661 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2662 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2664 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2665 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2666 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2667 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2668 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2670 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2671 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2672 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2673 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2674 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2675 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2676 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2678 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2679 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2680 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2681 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2682 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2683 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2685 o Minor features (address discovery):
2686 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2687 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2688 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2689 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2691 o Minor features (admin tools):
2692 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2693 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2694 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2697 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2698 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2699 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2700 Closes ticket 40245.
2702 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2703 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2704 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2705 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2706 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2707 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2709 o Minor features (build):
2710 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2711 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2712 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2713 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2714 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2716 o Minor features (configuration):
2717 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2718 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2719 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2720 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2721 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2722 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2724 o Minor features (control port):
2725 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2726 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2727 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2728 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2730 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2731 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2732 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2735 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2736 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2737 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2738 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2739 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2740 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2741 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2743 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2744 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2745 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2747 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2748 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2749 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2750 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2751 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2752 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2753 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2754 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2755 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2756 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2757 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2759 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2760 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2761 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2762 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2764 o Minor features (documentation):
2765 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2766 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2767 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2769 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2770 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2771 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2772 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2774 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2775 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2776 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2778 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2779 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2780 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2782 o Minor features (logging):
2783 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2784 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2785 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2786 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2787 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2788 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2790 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2791 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2792 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2793 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2795 o Minor features (onion services):
2796 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2797 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2798 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2800 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2801 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2802 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2803 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2804 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2805 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2807 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2808 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2809 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2810 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2811 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2813 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2814 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2815 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2816 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2817 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2818 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2819 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2821 o Minor features (relay):
2822 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2823 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2824 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2825 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2826 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2827 Closes ticket 34137.
2829 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2830 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2831 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2834 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2835 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2836 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2837 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2838 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2839 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2840 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2841 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2842 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2844 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2845 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2847 o Minor features (safety):
2848 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2849 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2852 o Minor features (specification update):
2853 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2854 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2855 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2857 o Minor features (state management):
2858 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2859 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2860 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2861 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2862 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2864 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2865 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2866 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2867 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2868 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2870 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2871 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2872 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2874 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2875 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2876 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2877 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2878 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2880 o Minor features (testing):
2881 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2882 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2884 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2885 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2886 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2887 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2889 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2890 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2891 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2892 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2893 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2894 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2895 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2896 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2897 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2899 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2900 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2901 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2902 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2903 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2904 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2906 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2907 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2908 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2909 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2910 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2911 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2914 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2915 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2916 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2917 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2918 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2919 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2922 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2923 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2924 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2925 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2926 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2928 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2929 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2930 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2931 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2933 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2934 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2935 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2936 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2937 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2938 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2939 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2940 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2942 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2943 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2944 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2945 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2946 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2947 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2948 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2949 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2952 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2953 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2954 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2955 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2957 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2958 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2959 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2960 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2961 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2962 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2963 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2965 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2966 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2967 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2968 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2969 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2970 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2972 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2973 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2974 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2976 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2977 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2978 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2979 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2980 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2981 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2982 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2983 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2985 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2986 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2987 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2988 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2989 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2990 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2991 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2992 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2993 Closes ticket 34200.
2994 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2995 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2996 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2997 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2998 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2999 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
3000 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
3002 - Split implementation of several command line options from
3003 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
3004 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
3005 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
3006 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
3007 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
3010 o Deprecated features:
3011 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
3012 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
3013 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
3016 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
3017 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
3020 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
3021 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
3022 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
3023 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
3025 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
3026 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
3028 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
3029 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
3030 directory. Closes part of 40139.
3031 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
3032 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
3036 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
3037 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3039 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
3040 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
3041 31699; Patch by @bduszel
3043 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
3044 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
3045 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
3046 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
3047 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
3049 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
3050 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
3051 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
3052 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
3053 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
3055 o Documentation (manual page):
3056 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
3057 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
3058 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
3059 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
3061 o Documentation (tracing):
3062 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
3063 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
3065 o Removed features (controller):
3066 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
3067 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
3070 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
3071 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3072 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3073 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3074 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3076 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3077 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3078 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3079 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3080 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3083 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3084 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3085 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3086 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3089 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3090 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3091 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3092 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3094 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3095 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3096 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3097 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3098 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3100 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3101 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3102 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3103 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3104 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3105 weasel for diagnosing this.
3107 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3108 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3109 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3110 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3111 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3112 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3113 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3115 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3116 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3117 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3118 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3120 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3121 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3122 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3123 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3125 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3126 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3127 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3128 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3129 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3130 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3131 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3133 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3134 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3137 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
3138 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3139 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3140 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3141 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3143 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
3144 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
3146 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3147 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3148 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3149 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3150 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3153 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3154 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3155 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3156 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3157 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3159 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3160 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3161 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3162 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3165 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3166 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3167 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3168 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3170 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3171 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3172 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3173 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3174 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3176 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3177 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3178 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3179 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3180 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3181 weasel for diagnosing this.
3183 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3184 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3185 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3186 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3187 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3188 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3189 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3191 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3192 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3193 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3195 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3196 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3197 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3198 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3200 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3201 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3202 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3203 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3205 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3206 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3207 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3208 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3209 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3210 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3211 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3213 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3214 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3217 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3218 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3219 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3220 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3221 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3223 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3224 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3225 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3226 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3227 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3230 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3231 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3232 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3233 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3234 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3236 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3237 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3238 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3239 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3242 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3243 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3244 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3245 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3247 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3248 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3249 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3250 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3251 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3253 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3254 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3255 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3256 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3257 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3258 weasel for diagnosing this.
3260 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3261 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3262 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3263 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3264 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3265 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3266 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3268 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3269 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3270 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3272 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3273 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3274 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3275 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3277 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3278 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3279 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3280 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3282 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3283 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3284 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3285 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3287 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3288 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3291 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3292 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3293 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3294 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3295 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3296 intended for a different relay.
3298 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3299 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3300 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3301 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3302 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3303 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3304 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3306 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3307 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3308 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3309 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3310 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3311 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3312 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3313 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3314 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3315 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3316 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3318 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3319 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3320 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3321 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3322 closes ticket 40133.
3324 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3325 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3326 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3328 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3329 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3330 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3332 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3333 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3334 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3335 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3336 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3337 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3339 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3340 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3341 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3343 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3344 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3345 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3348 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3349 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3350 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3351 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3354 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3355 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3356 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3357 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3358 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3360 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3361 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3362 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3365 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3366 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3367 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3368 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3370 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3371 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3372 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3373 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3374 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3375 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3376 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3378 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3379 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3380 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3381 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3382 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3385 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3386 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3387 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3388 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3389 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3390 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3392 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3393 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3394 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3395 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3396 closes ticket 40133.
3398 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3399 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3400 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3401 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3403 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3404 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3405 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3407 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3408 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3409 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3411 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3412 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3413 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3414 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3415 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3417 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3418 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3419 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3421 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3422 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3423 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3424 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3425 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3426 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3427 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3429 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3430 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3431 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3434 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3435 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3436 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3437 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3438 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3439 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3442 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3443 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3444 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3445 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3447 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3448 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3449 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3450 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3452 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3453 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3454 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3456 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3457 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3460 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3461 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3462 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3463 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3464 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3465 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3466 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3469 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3470 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3471 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3472 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3473 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3475 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3476 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3477 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3478 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3480 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3481 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3482 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3483 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3484 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3485 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3486 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3488 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3489 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3490 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3491 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3492 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3495 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3496 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3497 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3498 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3499 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3500 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3502 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3503 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3504 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3505 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3507 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3508 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3509 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3510 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3511 closes ticket 40133.
3513 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3514 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3515 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3516 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3518 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3519 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3520 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3522 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3523 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3524 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3526 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3527 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3528 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3529 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3530 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3532 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3533 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3534 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3536 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3537 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3538 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3539 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3540 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3541 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3542 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3544 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3545 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3546 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3549 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3550 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3551 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3552 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3553 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3554 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3557 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3558 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3559 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3560 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3562 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3563 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3564 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3565 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3567 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3568 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3569 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3571 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3572 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3575 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3576 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3577 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3578 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3579 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3580 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3581 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3583 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3584 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3585 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3586 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3587 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3589 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3590 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3591 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3593 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3594 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3596 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3597 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3598 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3599 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3600 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3601 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3602 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3603 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3604 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3605 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3607 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3608 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3609 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3610 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3612 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3613 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3614 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3615 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3616 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3617 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3618 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3620 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3622 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3623 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3624 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3625 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3627 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3628 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3629 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3630 Closes ticket 32709.
3632 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3633 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3634 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3635 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3636 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3639 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3640 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3641 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3642 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3643 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3644 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3646 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3647 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3648 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3649 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3650 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3652 o Minor features (security):
3653 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3654 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3655 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3656 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3657 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3659 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3660 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3661 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3662 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3663 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3666 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3667 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3668 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3669 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3670 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3671 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3672 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3674 o Minor features (code safety):
3675 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3676 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3677 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3678 Resolves issue 33788.
3680 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3681 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3682 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3683 Resolves ticket 32143.
3685 o Minor features (control port):
3686 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3687 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3688 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3689 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3690 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3691 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3692 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3694 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3695 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3696 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3698 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3699 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3700 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3701 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3702 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3703 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3705 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3706 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3707 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3708 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3709 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3710 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3711 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3712 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3714 o Minor features (directory authority):
3715 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3716 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3717 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3718 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3719 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3721 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3722 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3723 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3724 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3726 o Minor features (directory):
3727 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3728 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3729 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3732 o Minor features (entry guards):
3733 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3734 Closes ticket 40001.
3736 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3737 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3738 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3740 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3741 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3742 Closes ticket 33901.
3744 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3745 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3746 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3747 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3748 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3749 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3750 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3752 o Minor features (logging):
3753 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3754 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3756 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3757 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3758 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3759 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3762 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3763 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3764 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3766 o Minor features (python scripts):
3767 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3768 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3769 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3770 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3772 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3773 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3774 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3775 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3776 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3777 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3778 up from ticket 33316.
3779 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3780 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3781 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3783 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3784 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3785 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3786 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3788 o Minor features (windows):
3789 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3790 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3792 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3793 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3794 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3795 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3797 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3798 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3799 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3800 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3801 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3803 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3804 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3805 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3806 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3807 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3808 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3810 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3811 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3812 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3813 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3815 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3816 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3817 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3818 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3819 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3821 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3822 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3823 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3825 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3826 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3827 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3828 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3829 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3830 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3831 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3832 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3833 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3834 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3836 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3837 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3838 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3839 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3840 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3842 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3843 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3844 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3845 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3848 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3849 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3850 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3851 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3852 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3853 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3854 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3856 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3857 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3858 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3860 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3861 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3862 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3864 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3865 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3866 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3868 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3869 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3870 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3873 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3874 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3875 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3878 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3879 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3880 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3881 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3882 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3883 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3884 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3886 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3887 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3888 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3889 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3891 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3892 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3893 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3894 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3895 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3898 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3899 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3900 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3901 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3902 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3903 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3906 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3907 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3908 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3911 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3912 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3913 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3914 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3916 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3917 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3918 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3919 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3920 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3923 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3924 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3925 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3927 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3928 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3929 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3930 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3931 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3932 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3933 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3934 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3935 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3936 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3937 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3938 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3940 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3941 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3942 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3943 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3945 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3946 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3947 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3948 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3951 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3952 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3953 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3954 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3955 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3956 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3959 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3960 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3961 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3962 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3963 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3964 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3965 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3966 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3967 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3968 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3969 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3970 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3971 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3974 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3975 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3976 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3977 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3978 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3979 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3980 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3981 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3983 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3984 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3986 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3987 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3988 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3989 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3990 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3991 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3992 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3993 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3994 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3995 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3996 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3997 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3999 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
4000 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
4003 o Documentation (manual page):
4004 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
4005 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4006 Google Season of Docs.
4007 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
4008 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
4009 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
4010 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4011 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
4012 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
4013 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
4014 Closes ticket 33778.
4017 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
4018 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
4019 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
4021 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4022 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4023 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4024 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4025 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4026 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4027 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4030 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4031 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4032 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4033 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4036 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4037 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4038 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4039 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4040 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4041 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4043 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4044 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4045 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4046 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4047 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4048 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4050 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4051 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4052 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4054 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4055 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4056 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4057 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4060 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4061 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4062 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4063 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4066 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4067 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4068 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4069 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4070 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4072 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4073 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4074 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4076 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4077 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4078 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4079 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4080 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4083 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4084 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4085 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4086 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4087 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4088 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4090 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4091 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4092 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4093 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4095 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4096 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4097 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4098 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4101 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4102 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4103 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4104 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4105 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4106 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4107 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4108 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4112 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
4113 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
4114 several that affect usability and portability.
4116 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4117 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4118 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4119 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4120 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4121 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4122 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4125 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4126 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4127 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4128 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4131 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4132 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4133 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4134 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4135 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4136 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4138 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
4139 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4140 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4141 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4142 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4144 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4145 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4146 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4147 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4149 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4150 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4151 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4152 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4153 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4154 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4156 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4157 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4158 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4160 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4161 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4162 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4163 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4166 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4167 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4168 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4169 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4172 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4173 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4174 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4175 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4176 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4177 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4180 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4181 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4182 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4184 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4185 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4186 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4187 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4189 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4190 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4191 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4192 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4193 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4196 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4197 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4198 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4199 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4200 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4201 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4203 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4204 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4205 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4206 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4207 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4209 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4210 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4211 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4212 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4214 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4215 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4216 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4217 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4219 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4220 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4221 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4222 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4225 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4226 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4227 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4228 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4229 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4230 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4231 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4232 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4236 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4237 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4238 some affecting usability.
4240 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4241 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4242 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4243 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4244 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4245 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4246 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4249 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4250 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4251 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4252 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4255 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4256 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4257 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4259 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4260 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4261 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4262 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4265 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4266 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4267 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4269 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4270 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4271 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4272 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4274 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4275 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4276 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4277 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4279 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4280 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4281 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4283 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4284 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4285 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4286 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4287 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4289 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4290 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4291 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4293 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4294 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4295 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4296 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4298 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4299 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4303 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4304 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4305 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4306 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4307 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4308 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4311 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4312 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4313 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4314 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4315 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4317 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4318 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4319 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4322 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
4323 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4325 o New system requirements:
4326 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4327 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4328 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4330 o Major features (build system):
4331 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4332 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4333 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4334 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4335 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4337 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4338 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4339 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4340 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4341 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4343 o Major features (onion services):
4344 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4345 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4346 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4347 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4348 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4349 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4350 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4352 o Major features (proxy):
4353 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4354 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4355 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4356 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4357 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4358 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4360 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4361 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4362 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4363 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4364 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4365 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4366 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4367 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4368 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4370 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4371 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4372 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4373 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4374 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4376 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4377 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4378 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4379 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4380 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4382 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4383 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4384 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4385 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4386 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4387 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4389 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4390 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4391 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4392 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4394 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4395 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4396 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4397 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4398 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4399 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4401 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4402 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4403 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4405 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4406 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4407 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4408 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4409 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4411 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4412 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4413 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4414 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4416 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4417 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4418 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4419 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4420 Closes ticket 31241.
4422 o Minor features (configuration):
4423 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4424 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4426 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4427 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4428 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4429 Implements ticket 32404.
4431 o Minor features (configure, build system):
4432 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4433 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4435 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4436 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4437 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4438 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4439 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4440 Closes ticket 33075.
4442 o Minor features (controller):
4443 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4444 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4445 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4447 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4448 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4449 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4450 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4452 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4453 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4454 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4457 o Minor features (developer tools):
4458 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4459 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4460 Closes ticket 32772.
4461 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4462 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4463 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4464 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4465 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4466 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4467 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4468 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4470 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4471 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4472 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4473 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4475 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4476 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4477 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4478 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4480 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4481 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4482 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4483 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4485 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4486 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4487 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4488 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4490 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4491 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4492 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4493 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4494 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4495 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4496 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4497 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4499 o Minor features (git scripts):
4500 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4501 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4502 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4503 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4504 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4505 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4506 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4507 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4508 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4509 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4510 Closes ticket 32216.
4511 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4512 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4513 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4514 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4516 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4517 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4518 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4519 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4520 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4521 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4523 o Minor features (portability, android):
4524 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4525 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4526 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4528 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4529 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4530 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4531 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4532 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4533 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4534 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4535 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4536 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4537 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4539 o Minor features (release tools):
4540 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4541 Closes ticket 32704.
4543 o Minor features (testing):
4544 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4545 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4546 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4547 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4548 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4549 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4550 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4551 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4552 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4553 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4554 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4556 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4557 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4558 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4560 o Minor features (usability):
4561 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4562 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4563 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4565 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4566 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4567 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4568 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4571 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4572 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4573 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4575 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4576 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4577 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4579 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4580 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4581 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4582 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4583 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4584 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4587 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4588 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4589 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4590 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4591 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4592 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4593 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4594 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4595 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4596 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4597 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4598 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4599 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4600 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4601 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4602 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4603 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4604 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4606 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4607 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4610 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4611 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4612 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4613 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4615 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4616 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4617 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4620 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4621 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4622 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4624 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4625 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4626 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4627 Closes ticket 32213.
4628 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4629 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4630 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4632 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4633 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4634 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4635 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4636 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4639 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4640 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4642 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4643 Closes ticket 32216.
4645 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4646 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4647 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4648 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4649 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4650 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4652 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4653 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4654 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4655 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4656 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4657 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4658 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4659 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4661 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4662 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4663 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4664 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4666 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4667 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4668 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4669 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4671 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4672 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4673 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4674 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4675 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4676 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4677 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4678 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4681 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4682 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4683 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4684 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4686 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4687 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4688 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4689 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4690 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4691 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4692 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4694 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4695 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4696 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4697 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4698 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4700 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4701 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4702 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4703 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4706 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4707 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4708 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4709 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4710 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4712 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4713 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4714 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4715 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4717 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4718 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4719 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4720 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4722 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4723 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4724 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4726 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4727 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4728 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4729 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4731 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4732 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4733 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4734 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4735 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4736 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4737 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4739 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4740 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4741 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4742 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4743 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4745 o Deprecated features:
4746 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4747 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4748 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4752 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4753 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4754 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4755 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4756 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4757 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4758 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4759 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4761 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4762 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4765 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4766 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4767 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4768 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4769 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4770 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4772 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4773 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4774 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4775 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4776 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4779 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4780 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4781 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4782 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4783 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4785 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4786 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4788 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4789 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4790 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4791 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4792 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4795 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4796 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4797 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4799 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4800 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4801 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4802 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4803 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4804 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4805 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4806 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4807 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4808 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4809 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4810 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4811 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4812 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4813 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4814 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4815 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4817 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4818 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4820 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4821 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4822 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4824 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4825 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4826 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4827 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4828 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4829 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4831 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4832 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4833 Closes ticket 32163.
4834 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4836 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4838 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4839 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4840 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4842 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4843 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4844 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4845 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4846 Closes ticket 32304.
4847 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4848 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4849 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4850 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4851 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4854 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4855 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4857 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4860 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4861 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4862 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4863 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4864 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4865 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4866 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4867 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4869 o Documentation (manpage):
4870 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4871 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4872 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4873 Google Season of Docs.
4874 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4875 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4876 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4877 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4878 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4879 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4881 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4883 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4884 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4885 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4887 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4888 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4889 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4891 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4892 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4893 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4894 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4895 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4896 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4897 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4898 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4901 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4902 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4905 o Testing (Travis CI):
4906 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4907 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4908 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4910 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4911 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4912 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4913 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4914 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4917 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4918 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4919 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4920 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4921 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4922 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4923 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4924 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4925 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4926 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4927 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4928 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4930 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4931 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4932 as soon as packages are available.
4934 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4935 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4936 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4937 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4938 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4939 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4940 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4941 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4942 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4944 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4945 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4946 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4947 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4948 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4950 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4951 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4952 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4953 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4954 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4956 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4957 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4958 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4959 Closes ticket 33075.
4961 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4962 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4963 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4965 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4966 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4967 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4968 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4969 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4972 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4973 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4974 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4975 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4978 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4979 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4980 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4981 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4983 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4984 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4985 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4986 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4988 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4989 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4990 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4991 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4992 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4995 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4996 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4997 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4998 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4999 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
5000 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
5001 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
5002 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
5003 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
5004 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
5005 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
5006 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
5008 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5009 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5010 as soon as packages are available.
5012 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5013 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5014 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5015 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5016 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5017 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5018 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5019 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5020 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5022 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5023 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
5024 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
5025 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
5026 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
5028 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5029 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5030 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5032 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5033 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5034 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5035 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5036 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5039 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5040 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5041 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5042 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5045 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5046 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5047 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5048 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5050 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5051 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5052 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5053 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5055 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5056 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5057 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
5058 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5059 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5062 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
5063 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
5064 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
5065 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
5066 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
5067 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
5068 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
5069 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
5070 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
5071 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
5072 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
5075 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
5076 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
5077 as soon as packages are available.
5079 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5080 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
5081 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
5082 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
5083 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
5084 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
5085 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
5086 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
5087 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
5089 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5090 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5091 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5092 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5093 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
5094 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5095 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5096 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5099 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5100 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
5101 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
5102 Closes ticket 33075.
5104 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5105 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
5106 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
5108 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5109 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5110 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5111 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5112 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5114 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5115 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
5116 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
5117 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
5118 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
5121 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5122 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
5123 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
5124 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
5127 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
5128 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
5129 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
5130 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5132 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5133 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5134 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5135 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5136 Closes ticket 32629.
5137 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5138 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5139 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5141 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5142 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5144 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
5145 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
5146 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
5147 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
5149 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
5150 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
5151 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
5152 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
5155 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
5156 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
5157 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
5158 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
5159 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
5160 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
5162 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5163 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5164 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5165 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5166 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5167 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5168 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5169 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5171 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5172 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5173 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5175 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5176 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5177 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5178 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5180 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5181 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5182 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5183 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5185 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5186 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5187 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5188 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5189 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5190 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5193 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5194 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5195 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5197 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5198 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5199 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5200 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5201 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5202 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5203 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5204 Closes ticket 32629.
5206 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5207 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5210 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5211 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5212 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5213 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5214 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5215 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5217 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5218 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5219 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5220 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5221 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5222 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5223 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5224 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5226 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5227 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5228 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5230 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5231 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5232 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5233 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5234 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5236 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5237 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5238 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5240 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5241 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5242 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5243 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5244 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5245 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5246 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5247 Closes ticket 32629.
5249 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5250 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5253 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5254 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5255 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5256 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5257 bugs present in previous series.
5259 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5260 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5261 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5262 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5264 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
5265 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5267 o Major features (directory authorities):
5268 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5269 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5270 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5272 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5273 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5274 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5275 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5276 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5277 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5280 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5281 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5282 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5283 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5284 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5285 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5288 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5289 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5290 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5291 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5292 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5293 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5294 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5295 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5296 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5298 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5299 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5300 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5301 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5303 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5304 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5305 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5306 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5307 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5308 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5309 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5310 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5312 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5313 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5314 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5315 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5316 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5318 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5319 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5320 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5321 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5322 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5325 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5326 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5327 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5328 Closes ticket 29669.
5330 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5331 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5332 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5333 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5334 Closes ticket 31779.
5336 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5337 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5338 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5339 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5340 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5341 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5342 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5343 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5344 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5345 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5346 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5347 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5348 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5349 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5350 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5352 o Minor features (build system):
5353 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5354 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5355 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5356 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5357 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5359 o Minor features (compilation):
5360 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5361 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5362 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5364 o Minor features (configuration):
5365 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5366 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5367 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5368 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5370 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5371 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5372 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5373 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5374 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5375 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5376 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5378 o Minor features (debugging):
5379 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5380 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5381 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5382 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5384 o Minor features (geoip):
5385 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5386 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5388 o Minor features (git hooks):
5389 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5390 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5391 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5392 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5393 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5395 o Minor features (git scripts):
5396 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5397 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5398 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5399 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5400 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5401 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5402 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5403 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5404 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5405 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5406 Closes ticket 31314.
5407 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5408 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5409 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5410 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5411 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5412 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5413 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5414 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5415 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5417 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5418 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5419 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5422 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5423 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5424 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5426 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5427 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5428 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5429 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5430 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5431 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5432 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5434 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5435 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5436 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5438 o Minor features (onion service):
5439 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5440 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5441 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5442 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5444 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5445 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5446 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5449 o Minor features (stem tests):
5450 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5451 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5454 o Minor features (testing):
5455 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5456 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5457 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5458 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5459 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5460 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5461 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5462 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5463 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5464 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5465 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5466 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5467 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5468 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5469 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5471 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5472 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5473 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5474 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5476 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5477 Closes ticket 31859.
5478 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5479 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5481 o Minor features (token bucket):
5482 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5483 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5485 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5486 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5487 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5489 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5490 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5491 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5492 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5493 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5494 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5495 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5496 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5499 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5500 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5501 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5502 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5504 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5505 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5506 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5507 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5508 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5509 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5510 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5512 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5513 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5514 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5515 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5516 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5517 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5519 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5520 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5521 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5522 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5523 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5524 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5526 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5527 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5528 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5530 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5531 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5532 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5533 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5534 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5536 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5537 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5538 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5540 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5541 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5542 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5543 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5545 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5546 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5547 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5548 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5550 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5551 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5552 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5553 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5555 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5556 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5557 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5558 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5559 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5560 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5561 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5562 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5563 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5564 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5566 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5567 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5568 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5569 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5570 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5572 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5573 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5574 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5577 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5578 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5579 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5581 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5582 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5583 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5584 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5585 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5586 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5587 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5588 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5589 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5590 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5591 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5592 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5595 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5596 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5597 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5598 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5601 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5602 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5603 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5604 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5606 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5607 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5608 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5609 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5610 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5611 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5612 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5613 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5614 Closes ticket 31678.
5616 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5617 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5618 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5619 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5620 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5622 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5623 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5624 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5625 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5626 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5627 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5628 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5629 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5630 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5633 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5634 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5635 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5636 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5637 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5638 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5639 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5640 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5641 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5642 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5643 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5644 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5645 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5647 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5648 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5649 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5651 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5652 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5653 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5654 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5656 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5657 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5658 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5659 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5660 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5663 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5664 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5665 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5668 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5669 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5670 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5673 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5674 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5675 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5677 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5678 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5679 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5680 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5681 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5682 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5684 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5685 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5686 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5687 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5690 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5691 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5692 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5693 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5694 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5696 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5697 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5698 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5699 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5700 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5701 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5703 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5704 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5705 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5706 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5708 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5709 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5710 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5712 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5713 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5714 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5716 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5717 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5718 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5719 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5721 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5722 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5723 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5724 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5725 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5727 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5728 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5729 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5730 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5732 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5733 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5734 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5735 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5736 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5738 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5739 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5740 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5741 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5742 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5745 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5746 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5747 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5749 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5750 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5751 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5752 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5753 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5754 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5757 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5758 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5759 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5761 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5762 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5763 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5766 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5767 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5768 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5769 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5770 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5771 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5773 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5774 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5775 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5776 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5777 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5779 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5780 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5781 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5782 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5783 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5784 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5785 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5786 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5787 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5788 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5790 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5791 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5792 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5793 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5794 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5795 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5796 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5798 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5802 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5803 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5804 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5805 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5806 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5807 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5808 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5809 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5811 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5812 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5813 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5814 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5815 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5816 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5817 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5818 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5819 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5820 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5821 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5822 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5823 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5826 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5827 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5828 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5829 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5830 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5831 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5833 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5837 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5838 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5839 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5840 Closes ticket 32500.
5841 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5842 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5843 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5844 Closes ticket 30967.
5846 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5847 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5848 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5849 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5850 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5851 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5852 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5853 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5854 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5855 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5856 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5857 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5858 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5859 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5860 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5861 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5863 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5864 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5865 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5866 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5867 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5868 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5869 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5870 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5871 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5872 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5874 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5875 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5876 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5878 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5879 Closes ticket 30806.
5880 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5881 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5884 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5885 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5886 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5888 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5889 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5890 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5892 o Testing (continuous integration):
5893 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5894 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5895 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5896 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5897 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5898 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5899 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5900 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5901 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5904 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5905 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5906 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5907 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5909 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5910 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5911 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5912 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5914 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5915 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5916 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5917 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5919 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5920 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5921 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5922 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5923 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5924 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5925 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5926 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5928 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5929 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5930 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5931 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5932 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5934 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5935 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5936 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5937 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5938 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5941 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5942 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5943 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5944 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5946 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5947 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5948 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5950 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5951 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5952 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5954 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5955 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5956 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5957 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5958 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5959 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5961 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5962 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5963 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5964 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5966 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5967 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5968 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5969 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5970 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5971 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5972 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5973 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5974 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5975 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5978 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5979 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5980 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5981 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5982 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5983 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5984 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5985 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5986 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5988 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5989 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5990 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5991 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5993 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5994 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5995 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5996 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5997 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6000 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6001 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
6002 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
6004 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6005 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6006 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6008 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6009 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6010 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6012 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6013 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6014 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6015 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6017 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6018 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6019 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6020 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6021 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6023 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6024 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
6025 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6027 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6028 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6029 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6032 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6033 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
6034 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
6036 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6037 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6038 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6039 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6041 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6042 Closes ticket 31859.
6043 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6044 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6046 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6047 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6048 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6049 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6050 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6051 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6052 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6053 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6054 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6055 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6057 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6058 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6059 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6060 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6061 Closes ticket 32500.
6064 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
6065 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
6066 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
6067 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
6068 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
6070 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
6071 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
6072 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
6073 support until 1 Feb 2022.
6075 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6076 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6079 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6080 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6081 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6082 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6083 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6084 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6085 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6086 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6087 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6088 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6089 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6091 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6092 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6093 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6094 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6095 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6096 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6098 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6099 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6100 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6101 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6102 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6105 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6106 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6107 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6108 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6109 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6111 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6112 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6113 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6114 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6117 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6118 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
6119 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
6120 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
6121 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
6122 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
6123 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
6124 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6126 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6127 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6128 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6129 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6130 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6132 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6133 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6134 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6135 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6136 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6139 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6140 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6141 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6143 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6144 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6145 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6148 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6149 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6150 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6152 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6153 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6154 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6155 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6157 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6158 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6159 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6160 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6161 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
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 features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6168 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6169 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6172 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6173 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6174 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6176 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6177 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6178 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6180 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6181 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6182 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6184 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6185 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6186 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6189 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6190 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6191 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6192 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6193 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6194 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6196 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6197 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6198 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6199 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6200 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6202 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6203 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6204 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6207 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6208 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6209 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6211 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6212 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6213 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6214 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6216 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6217 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6218 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6219 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6221 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6222 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6223 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6224 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6226 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6227 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6228 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6229 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6231 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6232 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6233 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6234 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6235 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6236 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6237 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6239 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6240 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6241 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6242 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6244 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6245 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6246 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6247 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6249 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6250 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6251 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6254 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6255 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6256 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6257 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6258 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6259 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6260 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6262 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6263 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6264 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6265 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6268 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6269 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6270 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6271 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6272 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6274 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6275 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6276 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6277 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6278 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6280 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6281 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6282 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6285 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6286 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6287 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6288 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6289 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6291 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6292 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6293 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6294 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6296 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6297 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6298 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6299 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6300 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6303 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6304 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6305 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6308 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6309 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6310 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6311 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6313 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6314 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6315 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6316 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6318 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6319 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6320 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6321 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6323 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6324 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6325 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6326 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6329 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6330 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6331 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6332 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6333 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6334 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6337 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6338 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6339 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6341 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6342 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6343 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6345 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6346 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6347 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6348 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6350 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6351 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6352 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6354 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6355 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6356 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6357 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6358 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6360 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6361 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6362 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6365 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6366 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6367 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6368 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6369 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6370 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6371 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6372 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6373 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6374 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6376 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6377 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6378 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6379 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6381 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6382 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6383 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6384 Resolves issue 29702.
6386 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6387 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6389 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6390 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6391 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6392 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6395 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6396 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6397 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6398 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6400 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6401 Closes ticket 31859.
6402 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6403 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6405 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6406 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6407 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6408 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6409 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6410 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6411 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6412 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6413 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6414 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6416 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6417 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6418 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6419 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6420 Closes ticket 32500.
6423 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6424 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6425 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6428 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6429 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6432 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6433 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6434 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6435 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6436 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6437 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6438 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6439 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6440 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6441 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6442 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6444 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6445 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6446 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6447 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6448 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6449 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6451 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6452 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6453 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6454 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6455 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6456 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6458 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6459 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6460 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6461 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6462 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6465 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6466 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6467 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6468 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6469 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6471 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6472 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6473 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6474 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6477 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6478 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6479 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6480 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6481 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6483 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6484 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6485 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6486 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6487 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6490 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6491 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6492 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6493 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6494 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6495 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6496 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6497 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6499 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6500 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6501 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6502 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6503 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6506 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6507 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6508 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6510 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6511 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6512 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6515 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6516 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6517 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6518 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6520 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6521 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6522 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6525 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6526 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6527 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6529 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6530 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6531 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6532 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6534 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6535 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6536 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6537 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6538 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6540 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6541 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6542 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6544 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6545 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6546 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6547 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6549 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6550 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6551 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6554 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6555 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6556 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6557 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6558 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6559 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6560 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6561 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6562 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6563 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6564 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6565 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6566 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6569 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6570 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6571 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6572 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6573 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6575 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6576 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6577 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6579 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6580 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6581 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6583 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6584 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6585 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6587 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6588 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6589 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6592 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6593 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6594 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6596 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6597 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6598 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6599 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6600 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6601 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6603 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6604 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6605 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6606 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6607 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6609 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6610 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6611 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6614 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6615 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6616 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6618 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6619 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6620 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6622 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6623 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6624 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6625 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6627 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6628 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6629 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6630 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6632 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6633 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6634 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6635 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6637 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6638 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6639 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6640 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6642 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6643 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6644 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6645 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6646 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6647 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6648 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6650 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6651 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6652 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6653 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6655 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6656 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6657 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6658 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6660 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6661 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6662 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6665 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6666 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6667 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6668 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6669 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6670 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6671 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6673 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6674 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6675 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6676 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6679 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6680 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6681 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6682 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6683 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6685 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6686 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6687 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6689 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6690 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6691 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6692 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6693 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6694 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6695 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6696 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6697 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6698 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6699 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6701 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6702 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6703 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6704 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6705 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6707 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6708 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6709 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6712 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6713 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6714 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6715 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6716 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6718 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6719 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6720 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6721 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6723 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6724 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6725 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6726 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6727 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6730 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6731 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6732 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6735 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6736 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6737 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6738 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6740 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6741 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6742 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6743 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6745 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6746 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6747 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6749 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6750 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6751 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6752 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6754 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6755 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6756 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6757 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6760 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6761 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6762 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6763 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6764 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6765 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6768 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6769 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6770 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6771 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6773 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6774 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6775 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6777 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6778 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6779 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6781 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6782 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6783 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6784 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6785 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6786 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6787 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6789 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6790 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6791 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6794 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6795 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6796 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6797 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6798 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6799 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6800 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6801 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6803 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6804 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6805 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6806 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6807 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6808 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6811 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6812 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6813 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6814 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6815 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6817 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6818 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6819 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6820 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6821 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6822 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6823 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6824 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6826 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6827 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6828 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6831 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6832 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6833 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6834 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6835 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6836 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6837 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6838 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6839 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6840 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6842 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6843 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6844 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6845 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6846 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6847 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6849 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6850 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6851 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6852 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6854 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6855 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6856 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6857 Resolves issue 29702.
6859 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6860 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6862 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6863 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6864 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6865 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6868 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6869 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6870 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6871 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6873 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6874 Closes ticket 31859.
6875 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6876 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6878 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6879 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6880 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6881 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6882 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6883 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6884 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6885 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6886 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6887 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6889 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6890 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6891 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6892 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6893 Closes ticket 32500.
6896 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6897 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6898 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6899 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6902 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6903 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6904 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6905 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6906 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6907 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6908 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6909 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6910 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6912 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6913 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6914 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6917 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6918 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6919 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6921 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6922 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6923 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6924 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6925 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6927 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6928 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6929 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6931 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6932 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6933 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6934 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6936 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6937 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6938 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6939 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6942 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6943 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6944 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6945 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6946 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6948 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6949 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6950 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6953 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6954 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6955 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6957 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6958 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6959 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6960 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6961 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6962 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6964 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6965 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6966 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6967 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6968 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6969 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6970 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6971 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6972 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6973 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6975 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6976 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6977 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6978 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6981 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6982 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6983 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6984 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6985 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6986 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6987 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6989 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6990 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6991 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6992 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6994 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6995 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6997 o Directory authority changes:
6998 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
7001 o Major features (circuit padding):
7002 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
7003 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
7004 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
7005 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
7006 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
7007 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
7008 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
7009 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
7010 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
7012 o Major features (code organization):
7013 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
7014 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
7015 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
7016 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
7019 o Major features (controller protocol):
7020 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
7021 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
7022 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
7023 Closes ticket 30091.
7025 o Major features (flow control):
7026 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
7027 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
7028 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
7029 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
7030 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
7031 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
7032 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
7034 o Major features (performance):
7035 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
7036 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
7037 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
7039 o Major features (performance, RNG):
7040 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
7041 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
7042 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
7043 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
7044 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
7045 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
7046 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
7047 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
7049 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7050 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
7051 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
7052 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
7053 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
7054 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
7055 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
7056 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
7057 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
7058 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
7059 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7061 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
7062 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
7063 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
7065 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
7066 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
7067 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
7068 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
7069 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7071 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
7072 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
7073 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
7074 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
7075 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
7078 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
7079 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
7080 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
7081 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
7082 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
7084 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
7085 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
7086 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
7087 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
7090 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
7091 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
7092 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
7093 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
7094 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
7095 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
7098 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
7099 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
7100 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
7101 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
7103 o Minor features (circuit padding):
7104 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
7106 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
7107 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
7108 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
7109 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
7110 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7111 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
7112 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
7114 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
7115 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
7116 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
7118 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7119 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
7120 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
7121 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
7122 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
7124 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
7125 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
7127 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
7129 o Minor features (controller):
7130 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
7131 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
7132 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7134 o Minor features (debugging):
7135 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
7136 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
7137 can use format strings to include information for trouble
7138 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
7140 o Minor features (defense in depth):
7141 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
7142 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
7143 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
7144 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
7145 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
7146 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
7147 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
7148 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
7149 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
7151 o Minor features (developer tools):
7152 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
7153 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
7154 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
7155 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
7156 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
7158 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
7159 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
7161 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
7162 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
7164 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
7165 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
7166 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
7167 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
7168 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7170 o Minor features (geoip):
7171 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7172 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7173 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7174 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7176 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7177 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7178 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7180 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7181 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7182 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7183 addresses. Implements 26992.
7185 o Minor features (logging):
7186 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7187 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7188 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7189 Closes ticket 30686.
7191 o Minor features (maintenance):
7192 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7193 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7194 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7196 o Minor features (modularity):
7197 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7198 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7200 o Minor features (performance):
7201 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7202 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7203 Closes ticket 28837.
7205 o Minor features (testing):
7206 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7207 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7208 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7209 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7211 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7212 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7213 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7214 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7215 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7216 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7217 Implements ticket 29732.
7218 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7219 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7221 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7222 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7224 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7225 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7226 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7227 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7228 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7229 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7231 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7232 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7233 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7234 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7236 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7237 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7238 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7240 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7241 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7242 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7243 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7244 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7245 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7246 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7247 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7248 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7249 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7250 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7251 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7252 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7253 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7254 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7255 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7256 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7257 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7259 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7260 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7261 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7262 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7263 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7265 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7266 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7267 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7268 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7269 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7270 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7272 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7273 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7274 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
7277 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7278 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7279 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7281 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7282 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7283 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7284 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7286 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7287 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7288 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7289 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7291 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7292 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7293 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7294 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7295 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7296 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7297 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7299 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7300 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7301 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7302 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7303 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7305 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7306 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7307 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7308 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7310 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7311 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7312 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7315 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7316 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7317 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7318 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7319 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7320 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7322 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7323 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7324 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7326 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7327 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7328 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7329 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7330 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7331 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7333 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7334 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7336 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7337 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7338 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7339 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7340 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7341 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7342 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7345 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7346 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7347 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7349 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7350 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7353 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7354 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7355 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7356 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7358 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7359 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7360 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7361 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7362 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7363 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7364 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7365 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7367 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7368 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7369 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7370 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7371 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7372 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7373 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7375 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7376 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7377 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7378 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7379 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7380 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7382 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7383 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7384 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7385 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7388 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7389 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7390 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7391 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7392 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7394 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7395 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7396 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7398 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7399 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7400 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7401 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7402 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7403 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7406 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7407 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7408 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7411 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7412 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7413 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7414 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7416 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7417 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7418 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7419 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7420 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7422 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7423 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7424 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7425 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7427 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7428 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7429 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7430 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7431 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7433 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7434 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7435 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7436 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7437 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7438 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7439 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7440 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7441 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7442 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7443 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7444 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7445 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7447 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7448 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7449 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7450 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7451 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7453 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7454 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7455 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7456 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7457 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7458 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7459 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7460 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7461 Resolves issue 28816.
7462 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7463 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7464 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7465 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7466 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7467 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7468 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7469 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7470 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7471 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7472 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7473 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7474 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7475 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7476 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7477 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7478 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7479 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7480 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7481 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7482 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7483 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7484 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7485 Closes ticket 29894.
7486 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7487 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7488 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7489 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7492 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7493 Closes ticket 30630.
7494 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7495 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7499 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7500 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7501 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7502 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7506 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7507 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7508 Resolves issue 29702.
7510 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7511 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7512 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7513 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7514 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7515 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7516 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7517 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7518 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7519 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7520 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7523 o Testing (chutney):
7524 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7525 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7526 Closes ticket 27251.
7528 o Testing (continuous integration):
7529 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7530 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7531 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7532 Closes ticket 30694.
7535 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7536 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7537 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7538 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7539 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7540 long-term maintainability.
7542 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7543 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7544 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7545 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7547 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7548 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7550 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7551 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7552 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7553 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7554 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7555 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7557 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7558 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7560 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7561 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7564 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7565 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7566 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7567 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7568 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7569 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7570 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7571 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7572 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7575 o Major features (circuit padding):
7576 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7577 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7578 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7579 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7580 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7581 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7582 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7583 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7586 o Major features (refactoring):
7587 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7588 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7589 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7590 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7593 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7594 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7595 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7596 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7597 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7598 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7599 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7600 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7602 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7603 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7604 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7605 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7606 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7608 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7609 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7610 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7611 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7612 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7613 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7615 o Minor features (address selection):
7616 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7617 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7618 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7619 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7620 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7621 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7622 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7624 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7625 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7626 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7627 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7628 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7630 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7631 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7632 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7635 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7636 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7637 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7638 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7639 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7642 o Minor features (compilation):
7643 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7644 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7645 Patches from "Mangix".
7647 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7648 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7649 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7651 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7653 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7654 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7655 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7657 o Minor features (controller):
7658 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7659 Implements ticket 28843.
7661 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7662 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7663 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7664 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7665 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7666 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7667 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7669 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7670 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7671 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7673 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7674 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7675 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7678 o Minor features (directory authority):
7679 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7680 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7681 Closes ticket 26698.
7682 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7683 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7684 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7685 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7688 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7689 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7690 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7691 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7692 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7693 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7694 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7696 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7697 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7698 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7699 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7700 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7701 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7702 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7704 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7705 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7706 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7708 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7709 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7710 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7711 Closes ticket 28518.
7713 o Minor features (geoip):
7714 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7715 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7717 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7718 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7719 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7720 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7722 o Minor features (IPv6):
7723 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7724 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7725 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7726 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7727 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7728 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7729 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7730 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7731 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7732 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7734 o Minor features (log messages):
7735 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7736 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7739 o Minor features (memory usage):
7740 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7741 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7742 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7743 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7744 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7746 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7747 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7748 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7749 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7751 o Minor features (parsing):
7752 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7753 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7754 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7756 o Minor features (performance):
7757 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7758 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7759 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7760 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7762 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7763 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7764 Closes ticket 28852.
7765 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7766 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7767 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7768 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7769 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7770 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7772 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7773 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7774 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7775 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7776 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7778 o Minor features (process management):
7779 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7780 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7781 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7782 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7783 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7785 o Minor features (relay):
7786 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7787 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7788 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7790 o Minor features (required protocols):
7791 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7792 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7793 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7794 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7795 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7796 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7797 297; closes ticket 27735.
7799 o Minor features (testing):
7800 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7802 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7803 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7804 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7805 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7808 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7809 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7810 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7811 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7812 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7813 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7814 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7815 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7816 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7818 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7819 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7820 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7821 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7823 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7824 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7825 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7826 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7827 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7829 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7830 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7831 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7833 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7834 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7835 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7836 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7838 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7839 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7840 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7843 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7844 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7845 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7846 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7847 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7850 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7851 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7852 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7853 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7854 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7855 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7857 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7858 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7859 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7861 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7862 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7863 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7864 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7866 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7867 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7868 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7869 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7870 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7872 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7873 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7874 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7875 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7877 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7878 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7879 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7880 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7881 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7882 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7883 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7885 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7886 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7887 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7888 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7891 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7892 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7893 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7894 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7895 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7896 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7897 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7898 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7899 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7900 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7901 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7902 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7903 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7904 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7905 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7906 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7907 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7908 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7909 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7910 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7911 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7912 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7914 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7915 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7916 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7917 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7918 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7919 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7921 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7922 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7923 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7924 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7925 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7927 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7928 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7929 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7930 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7932 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7933 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7934 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7935 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7936 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7937 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7939 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7940 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7941 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7943 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7944 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7945 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7947 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7948 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7949 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7950 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7952 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7953 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7954 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7955 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7957 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7958 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7959 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7960 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7961 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7963 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7964 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7965 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7967 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7968 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7969 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7970 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7971 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7974 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7975 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7976 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7977 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7978 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7979 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7980 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7982 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7983 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7984 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7987 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7988 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7989 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7990 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7991 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7992 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7994 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7995 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7996 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7997 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7998 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7999 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
8000 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8001 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8002 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8003 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8004 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8006 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
8007 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
8008 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
8009 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8011 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
8012 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
8013 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
8014 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
8015 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
8016 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
8017 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
8018 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
8020 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
8021 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8022 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8023 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8024 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8026 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
8027 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
8028 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
8029 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
8030 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
8031 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
8033 o Code simplification and refactoring:
8034 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
8035 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
8036 Resolves issue 28816.
8037 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
8038 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
8039 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
8040 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
8041 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
8043 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
8044 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
8045 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
8046 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
8047 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
8048 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
8049 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
8050 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
8054 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
8055 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
8056 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
8057 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
8058 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
8059 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
8060 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
8061 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
8062 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
8064 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
8067 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
8068 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
8069 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
8070 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
8071 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
8072 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
8073 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
8074 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
8077 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
8079 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
8080 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
8082 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
8083 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
8084 code from client and service into one function. Closes
8087 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
8088 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
8090 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
8091 Resolves ticket 28006.
8092 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
8093 Resolves ticket 28012.
8094 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
8095 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
8096 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
8097 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
8101 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
8102 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
8103 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
8106 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8107 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8108 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8110 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8111 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8112 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8113 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8114 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8115 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8116 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8117 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8119 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8120 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
8121 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
8122 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
8123 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8125 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8126 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
8127 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
8128 Patches from "Mangix".
8130 o Minor features (geoip):
8131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8132 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8134 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8135 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
8138 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8139 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
8140 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
8141 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
8142 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
8143 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
8145 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8146 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
8147 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
8148 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
8151 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8152 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8153 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8154 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8156 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8157 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
8158 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
8161 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8162 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
8163 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
8164 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8166 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8167 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
8168 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8169 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8171 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8172 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8173 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8174 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8175 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8176 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8178 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8179 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8180 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8181 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8182 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8184 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8185 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8186 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8187 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8188 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8190 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8191 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8192 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8194 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8195 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8196 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8198 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8199 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8200 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8201 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8203 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8204 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8205 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8207 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8208 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8209 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8210 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8211 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8214 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8215 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8216 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8217 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8218 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8221 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8222 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8223 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8224 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8225 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8227 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8228 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8229 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8230 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8231 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8232 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8233 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8234 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8236 o Minor features (geoip):
8237 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8238 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8240 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8241 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8242 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8243 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8245 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8246 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8247 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8248 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8249 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8252 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8253 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8254 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8255 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8257 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8258 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8259 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8260 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8262 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8263 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8264 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8265 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8266 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8267 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8268 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8269 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8271 o Minor features (geoip):
8272 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8273 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8275 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8276 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8277 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8278 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8280 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8281 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8282 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8283 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8284 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8287 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8288 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8289 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8290 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8291 to this version, or to a later series.
8293 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8294 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8295 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8296 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8297 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8298 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8300 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8301 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8302 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8303 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8304 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8307 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8308 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8309 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8310 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8312 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8313 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8314 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8315 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8316 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8317 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8318 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8319 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8321 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8322 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8323 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8324 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8326 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8327 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8328 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8329 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8330 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8332 o Minor features (geoip):
8333 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8334 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8336 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8337 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8338 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8339 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8340 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8341 Closes ticket 28973.
8343 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8344 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8345 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8346 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8348 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8349 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8350 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8353 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8354 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8355 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8357 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8358 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8359 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8360 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8362 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8363 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8364 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8365 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8367 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8368 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8369 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8370 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8371 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8372 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8375 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8376 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8377 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8380 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8381 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8382 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8383 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8384 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8386 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8387 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8388 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8389 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8390 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8392 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8393 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8394 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8395 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8396 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8397 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8399 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8400 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8401 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8404 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8405 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8406 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8408 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8409 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8410 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8412 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8413 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8414 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8417 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8418 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8419 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8420 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8421 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8422 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8423 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8424 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8426 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8427 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8428 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8429 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8431 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8432 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8433 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8434 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8435 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8436 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8437 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8438 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8439 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8440 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8442 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8443 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8444 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8445 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8446 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8447 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8449 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8450 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8451 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8452 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8453 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8455 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8456 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8457 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8460 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8461 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8462 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8463 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8466 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8467 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8468 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8471 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8472 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8473 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8474 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8475 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8478 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8479 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8480 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8481 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8482 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8483 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8484 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8486 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8487 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8488 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8491 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8492 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8493 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8494 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8495 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8498 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8499 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8500 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8501 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8502 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8504 o Minor features (geoip):
8505 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8506 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8508 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8509 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8510 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8511 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8512 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8513 Closes ticket 28973.
8515 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8516 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8517 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8518 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8520 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8521 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8522 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8523 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8524 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8527 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8528 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8529 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8530 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8532 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8533 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8534 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8536 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8537 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8538 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8539 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8541 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8542 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8543 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8544 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8545 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8546 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8549 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8550 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8551 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8553 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8554 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8555 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8556 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8557 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8559 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8560 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8561 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8562 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8563 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8564 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8566 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8567 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8568 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8569 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8571 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8572 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8573 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8576 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8577 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8578 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8579 affecting directory caches.
8581 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8582 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8583 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8584 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8585 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8586 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8587 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8588 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8590 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8591 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8592 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8593 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8594 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8595 so it will recognize them.
8597 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8598 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8599 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8600 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8601 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8602 with the latest stable release.)
8604 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8605 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8607 o Major features (bootstrap):
8608 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8609 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8610 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8611 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8613 o Major features (new code layout):
8614 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8615 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8616 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8617 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8618 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8619 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8620 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8622 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8623 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8624 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8626 o Major features (onion services v3):
8627 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8628 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8629 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8630 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8631 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8632 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8633 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8634 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8635 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8636 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8637 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8638 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8639 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8640 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8641 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8642 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8643 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8644 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8646 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8647 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8648 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8649 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8650 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8651 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8653 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8654 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8655 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8656 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8657 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8658 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8659 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8661 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8662 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8663 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8664 (if present), and restart Tor.
8666 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8667 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8668 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8669 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8670 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8671 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8672 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8673 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8675 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8676 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8677 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8679 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8680 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8681 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8682 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8683 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8684 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8686 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8687 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8688 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8689 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8692 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8693 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8694 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8695 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8696 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8698 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8699 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8700 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8701 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8702 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8704 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8705 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8706 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8707 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8708 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8709 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8711 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8712 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8713 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8714 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8715 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8718 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8719 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8720 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8721 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8722 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8723 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8725 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8726 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8727 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8728 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8729 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8731 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8732 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8733 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8734 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8735 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8736 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8738 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8739 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8740 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8741 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8743 o Minor features (admin tools):
8744 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8745 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8748 o Minor features (build):
8749 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8750 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8751 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8752 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8754 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8755 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8756 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8757 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8758 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8760 o Minor features (code layout):
8761 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8762 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8763 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8764 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8767 o Minor features (compilation):
8768 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8769 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8770 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8771 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8772 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8773 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8776 o Minor features (config):
8777 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8780 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8781 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8783 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8784 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8785 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8786 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8787 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8788 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8789 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8791 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8792 Implements ticket 27252.
8793 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8794 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8795 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8796 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8797 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8798 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8799 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8800 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8801 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8803 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8804 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8805 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8807 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8808 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8810 o Minor features (controller):
8811 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8812 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8813 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8814 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8815 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8816 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8817 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8818 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8820 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8821 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8822 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8823 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8825 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8826 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8827 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8828 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8830 o Minor features (development):
8831 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8832 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8834 o Minor features (directory authority):
8835 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8836 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8837 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8838 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8840 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8841 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8844 o Minor features (embedding API):
8845 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8846 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8847 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8848 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8849 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8850 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8853 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8854 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8855 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8856 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8857 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8859 o Minor features (geoip):
8860 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8861 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8863 o Minor features (memory management):
8864 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8865 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8868 o Minor features (memory usage):
8869 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8870 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8871 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8873 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8874 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8875 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8876 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8877 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8878 Closes ticket 28973.
8880 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8881 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8882 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8884 o Minor features (performance):
8885 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8886 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8887 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8888 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8889 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8890 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8891 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8892 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8893 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8894 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8896 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8897 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8898 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8899 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8901 o Minor features (testing):
8902 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8903 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8905 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8906 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8907 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8909 o Minor features (UI):
8910 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8911 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8912 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8913 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8914 Closes ticket 26703.
8916 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8917 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8918 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8919 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8920 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8922 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8923 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8924 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8925 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8926 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8929 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8930 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8931 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8932 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8934 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8935 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8936 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8937 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8938 - Use time_t for all values in
8939 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8940 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8941 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8943 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8944 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8945 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8946 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8947 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8950 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8951 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8952 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8953 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8954 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8955 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8957 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8958 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8959 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8960 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8962 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8963 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8964 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8968 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8969 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8970 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8972 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8973 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8974 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8977 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8978 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8979 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8980 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8981 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8983 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8984 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8985 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8986 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8987 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8990 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8991 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8992 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8993 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8994 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8995 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8996 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8997 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8998 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8999 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
9000 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
9001 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
9002 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
9004 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
9005 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
9006 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9008 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9009 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
9010 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
9011 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
9012 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
9015 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
9016 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
9017 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
9018 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
9019 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
9021 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
9022 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9023 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9025 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
9026 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
9027 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
9028 were the same, the default setting (0) for
9029 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
9030 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
9033 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
9034 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9035 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9038 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
9039 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
9040 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
9041 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
9042 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9044 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9045 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
9046 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
9049 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
9050 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
9051 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
9053 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
9054 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
9055 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
9056 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
9057 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
9058 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
9060 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
9061 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
9062 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
9063 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
9064 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9066 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
9067 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
9068 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
9069 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
9070 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9072 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
9073 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9074 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9076 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
9077 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
9078 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
9079 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
9082 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
9083 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
9084 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
9085 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
9086 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
9087 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9088 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
9089 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
9090 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
9092 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
9093 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
9095 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9096 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9097 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9098 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9099 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9100 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9101 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9102 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9103 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9104 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9105 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9107 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
9108 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
9109 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
9110 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9112 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
9113 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
9114 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
9115 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
9116 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
9118 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
9119 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
9120 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
9121 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
9123 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
9124 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9125 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9128 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
9129 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
9131 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9132 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9133 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9134 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9135 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9136 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9137 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9138 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9139 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9140 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9142 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
9143 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
9144 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
9145 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
9146 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
9148 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
9149 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
9150 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
9151 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
9153 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
9154 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
9155 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
9156 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
9157 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
9158 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9159 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9160 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
9161 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
9162 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9164 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
9165 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
9166 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
9167 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9168 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9169 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9170 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9171 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9172 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9174 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9175 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9176 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9177 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9178 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9179 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9180 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9181 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9182 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9183 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9184 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9185 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9186 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9187 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9188 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9190 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9191 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9192 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9193 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9194 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9195 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9196 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9197 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9199 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9200 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9201 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9202 reported by Keifer Bly.
9204 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9205 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9206 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9208 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9209 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9210 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9211 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9212 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9213 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9214 Closes ticket 27814.
9215 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9216 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9217 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9218 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9219 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9220 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9221 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9222 Closes ticket 27799.
9223 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9224 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9225 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9226 directory within the top-level src directory.
9227 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9228 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9229 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9230 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9231 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9232 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9233 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9234 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9235 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9236 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9237 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9238 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9239 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9240 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9241 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9242 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9243 Closes ticket 21349.
9244 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9245 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9246 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9247 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9248 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9249 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9250 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9252 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9253 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9254 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9257 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9258 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9259 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9260 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9261 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9262 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9263 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9264 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9265 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9268 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9269 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9270 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9271 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9272 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9273 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9274 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9275 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9276 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9277 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9278 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9279 Closes ticket 26367.
9282 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9283 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9285 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9286 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9287 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9288 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9289 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9290 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9291 Closes ticket 19566.
9293 o Documentation (onion services):
9294 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9295 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9296 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9297 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9298 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9299 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9300 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9301 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9304 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9305 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9306 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9307 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9308 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9310 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9311 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9312 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9314 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9315 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9316 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9317 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9318 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9320 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9321 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9322 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9323 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9324 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9327 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9328 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9329 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9330 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9332 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9333 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9334 Implements ticket 27252.
9335 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9336 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9337 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9338 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9339 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9340 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9341 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9343 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9344 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9345 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9346 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9348 o Minor features (geoip):
9349 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9350 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9352 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9353 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9354 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9355 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9356 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9358 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9359 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9360 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9361 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9362 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9365 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9366 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9367 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9370 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9371 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9372 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9373 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9374 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9376 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9377 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9378 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9380 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9381 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9382 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9384 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9385 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9386 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9387 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9389 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9390 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9391 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9393 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9394 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9395 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9398 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9399 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9400 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9402 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9403 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9404 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9407 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9408 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9409 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9410 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9411 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9413 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9414 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9415 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9416 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9417 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9418 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9420 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9421 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9422 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9425 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9426 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9427 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9428 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9429 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9430 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9431 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9432 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9434 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9435 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9436 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9437 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9439 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9440 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9441 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9442 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9443 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9445 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9446 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9447 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9448 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9449 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9450 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9452 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9453 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9454 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9455 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9456 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9457 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9459 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9460 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9461 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9462 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9465 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9466 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9467 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9468 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9469 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9472 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9473 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9475 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9476 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9477 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9478 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9480 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9481 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9483 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9484 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9485 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9486 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9488 o Minor features (geoip):
9489 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9490 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9492 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9493 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9494 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9495 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9497 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9498 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9499 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9500 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9501 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9502 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9503 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9504 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9507 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9508 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9509 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9510 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9512 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9513 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9514 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9515 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9517 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9518 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9519 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9520 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9522 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9523 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9524 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9525 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9526 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9528 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9529 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9530 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9533 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9534 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9535 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9536 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9537 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9539 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9540 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9541 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9544 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9545 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9546 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9547 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9549 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9550 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9551 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9553 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9554 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9555 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9558 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9559 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9560 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9561 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9562 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9564 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9565 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9566 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9569 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9570 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9572 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9573 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9574 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9575 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9577 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9578 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9580 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9581 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9582 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9583 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9585 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9586 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9589 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9590 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9591 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9592 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9594 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9595 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9596 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9597 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9599 o Minor features (geoip):
9600 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9601 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9604 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9605 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9606 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9607 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9608 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9609 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9611 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9612 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9613 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9614 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9615 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9616 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9617 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9618 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9621 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9622 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9623 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9624 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9626 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9627 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9628 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9629 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9631 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9632 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9633 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9634 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9635 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9637 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9638 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9639 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9640 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9641 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9643 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9644 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9645 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9648 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9649 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9650 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9651 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9652 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9654 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9655 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9656 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9659 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9660 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9661 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9664 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9665 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9666 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9669 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9670 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9672 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9673 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9674 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9675 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9677 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9678 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9679 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9680 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9682 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9683 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9684 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9686 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9687 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9688 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9689 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9690 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9691 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9692 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9695 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9696 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9697 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9698 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9699 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9701 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9702 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9703 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9704 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9705 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9707 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9708 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9709 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9712 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9713 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9715 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9716 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9717 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9718 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9720 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9721 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9722 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9723 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9725 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9726 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9727 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9729 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9730 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9731 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9732 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9734 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9735 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9738 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9739 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9740 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9741 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9743 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9744 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9745 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9746 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9748 o Minor features (geoip):
9749 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9750 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9752 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9753 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9754 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9755 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9756 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9757 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9758 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9760 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9761 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9762 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9763 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9764 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9765 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9766 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9767 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9770 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9771 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9772 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9773 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9775 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9776 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9777 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9778 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9780 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9781 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9782 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9783 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9784 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9786 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9787 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9788 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9789 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9790 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9792 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9793 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9794 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9797 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9798 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9799 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9800 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9802 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9803 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9804 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9805 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9806 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9808 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9809 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9810 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9813 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9814 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9815 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9818 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9819 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9820 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9823 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9824 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9825 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9826 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9828 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9829 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9830 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9833 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9834 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9836 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9837 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9838 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9839 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9840 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9841 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9842 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9844 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9845 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9846 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9847 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9848 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9850 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9851 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9852 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9853 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9855 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9856 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9857 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9859 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9860 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9861 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9862 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9863 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9864 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9865 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9868 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9869 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9870 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9871 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9872 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9874 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9875 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9876 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9877 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9878 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9880 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9881 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9882 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9885 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9886 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9887 compilation and portability fixes.
9889 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9890 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9891 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9892 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9893 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9894 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9895 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9896 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9898 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9899 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9901 o New system requirements:
9902 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9903 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9904 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9905 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9907 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9908 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9909 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9910 To disable the module, the configure option
9911 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9912 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9914 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9915 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9916 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9917 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9918 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9919 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9920 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9921 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9922 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9923 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9924 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9926 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9927 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9928 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9929 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9930 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9931 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9932 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9933 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9934 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9935 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9936 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9937 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9938 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9939 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9940 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9941 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9942 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9943 Tor's uptime (26009).
9945 o Minor features (accounting):
9946 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9947 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9948 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9949 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9951 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9952 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9953 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9954 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9956 o Minor features (code quality):
9957 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9958 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9959 Closes ticket 25024.
9961 o Minor features (compatibility):
9962 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9963 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9964 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9965 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9966 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9967 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9969 o Minor features (compilation):
9970 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9971 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9972 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9973 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9974 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9975 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9976 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9977 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9980 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9981 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9982 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9983 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9984 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9985 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9987 o Minor features (configuration):
9988 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9989 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9990 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9991 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9992 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9994 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9995 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9996 Implements ticket 27449.
9997 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9998 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
10000 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
10001 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10003 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
10004 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
10005 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
10006 Implements ticket 27275.
10007 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
10008 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
10009 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
10010 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
10011 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
10013 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
10014 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
10017 o Minor features (control port):
10018 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
10019 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
10020 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
10021 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10022 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
10023 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
10024 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
10025 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
10026 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
10027 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
10029 o Minor features (controller):
10030 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
10031 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
10032 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
10034 o Minor features (directory authorities):
10035 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
10036 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
10037 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
10038 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
10039 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
10040 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
10042 o Minor features (directory authority):
10043 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
10044 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
10045 Closes ticket 23909.
10047 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
10048 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
10049 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
10050 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
10052 o Minor features (entry guards):
10053 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
10054 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
10056 o Minor features (geoip):
10057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10058 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
10060 o Minor features (performance):
10061 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
10062 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
10063 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
10064 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
10066 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
10067 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
10069 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
10070 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
10072 o Minor features (testing):
10073 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
10074 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
10075 more deterministic.
10076 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
10077 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
10078 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
10079 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
10080 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
10081 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
10083 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
10084 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
10085 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
10086 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
10087 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10089 o Minor features (unit tests):
10090 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
10091 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
10092 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
10095 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
10096 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
10097 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
10098 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
10099 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
10100 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
10102 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10103 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
10104 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
10105 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
10107 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
10108 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
10109 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10110 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
10111 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
10113 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10114 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
10115 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
10116 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
10117 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
10118 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
10119 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
10120 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
10122 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10123 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10124 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10125 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10126 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
10127 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
10128 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10129 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
10130 Closes ticket 26245.
10131 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
10132 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
10133 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
10135 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
10136 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
10137 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
10138 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10140 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
10141 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10142 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
10143 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
10144 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
10146 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
10147 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
10148 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
10149 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
10150 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
10151 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
10152 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
10153 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10154 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
10155 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
10156 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
10157 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10159 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
10160 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
10161 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
10164 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
10165 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
10166 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10169 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10170 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
10171 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10172 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
10173 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
10174 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
10177 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
10178 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
10179 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
10180 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
10181 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
10182 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
10183 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10185 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10186 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10187 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10188 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10190 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10191 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10192 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10193 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10194 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10196 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10197 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10198 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10201 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10202 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10203 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10205 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10206 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10208 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10209 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10210 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10211 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10212 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10214 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10215 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10216 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10218 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10219 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10220 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10221 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10222 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10225 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10226 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10227 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10228 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10230 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10231 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10232 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10233 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10234 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10235 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10236 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10238 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10239 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10241 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10242 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10243 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10244 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10245 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10247 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10248 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10249 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10250 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10251 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10253 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10254 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10255 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10256 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10258 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10259 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10260 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10261 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10264 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10265 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10266 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10267 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10268 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10269 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10270 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10271 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10272 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10273 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10275 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10276 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10277 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10278 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10279 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10280 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10281 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10283 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10284 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10285 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10286 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10287 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10289 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10290 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10291 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10294 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10295 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10296 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10297 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10298 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10300 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10301 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10302 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10303 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10304 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10305 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10306 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10309 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10310 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10311 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10312 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10313 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10315 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10316 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10317 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10318 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10319 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10321 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10322 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10323 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10324 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10325 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10326 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10328 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10329 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10330 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10332 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10333 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10334 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10335 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10336 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10337 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10338 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10339 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10341 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10342 confusing we renamed some functions and
10343 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10344 router_should_check_reachability() and
10345 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10346 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10347 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10348 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10349 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10351 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10352 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10354 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10355 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10356 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10357 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10358 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10359 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10360 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10361 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10362 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10363 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10364 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10365 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10366 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10367 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10368 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10369 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10370 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10371 Closes ticket 25766.
10372 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10373 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10374 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10375 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10376 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10377 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10378 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10379 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10380 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10381 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10382 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10383 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10384 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10385 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10387 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10388 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10389 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10390 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10391 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10392 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10393 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10394 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10395 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10397 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10398 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10399 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10400 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10402 o Deprecated features:
10403 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10404 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10405 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10406 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10407 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10408 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10410 o Removed features:
10411 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10412 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10413 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10414 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10415 24378 and proposal 290.
10416 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10417 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10418 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10419 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10420 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10421 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10422 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10423 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10424 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10425 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10426 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10427 their local router. Closes 25409.
10428 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10429 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10430 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10431 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10432 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10433 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10434 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10435 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10436 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10437 Closes ticket 25268.
10440 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10441 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10442 bridge relays should upgrade.
10444 o Directory authority changes:
10445 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10446 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10447 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10450 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10451 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10452 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10455 o Directory authority changes:
10456 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10457 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10458 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10460 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10461 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10462 Closes ticket 26343.
10464 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10465 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10466 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10467 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10468 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10470 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10471 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10472 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10474 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10475 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10476 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10477 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10479 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10480 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10481 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10483 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10484 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10485 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10486 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10487 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10488 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10490 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10491 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10492 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10493 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10495 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10496 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10497 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10500 o Minor features (geoip):
10501 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10502 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10504 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10505 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10506 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10507 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10508 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10510 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10511 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10512 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10514 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10515 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10516 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10517 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10518 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10519 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10520 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10521 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10524 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10525 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10526 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10527 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10528 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10529 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10531 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10532 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10533 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10534 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10535 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10537 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10538 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10539 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10540 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10541 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10543 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10544 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10545 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10548 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10549 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10550 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10552 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10553 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10554 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10555 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10557 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10558 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10559 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10560 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10561 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10562 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10563 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10565 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10566 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10567 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10568 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10571 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10572 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10573 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10575 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10576 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10577 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10579 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10580 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10581 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10582 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10585 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10586 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10587 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10588 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10590 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10591 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10592 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10594 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10595 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10596 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10599 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10600 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10601 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10604 o Directory authority changes:
10605 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10606 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10607 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10609 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10610 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10611 Closes ticket 26343.
10613 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10614 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10615 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10616 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10617 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10619 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10620 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10621 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10622 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10624 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10625 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10626 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10627 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10628 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10629 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10631 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10632 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10633 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10636 o Minor features (geoip):
10637 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10638 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10640 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10641 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10642 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10643 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10644 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10646 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10647 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10648 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10650 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10651 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10652 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10653 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10656 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10657 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10658 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10659 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10660 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10661 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10663 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10664 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10665 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10666 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10667 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10669 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10670 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10671 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10674 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10675 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10676 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10678 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10679 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10680 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10681 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10683 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10684 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10685 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10687 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10688 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10689 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10692 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10693 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10694 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10696 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10697 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10698 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10699 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10701 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10702 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10703 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10706 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10707 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10708 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10711 o Minor features (geoip):
10712 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10713 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10715 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10716 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10717 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10718 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10720 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10721 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10722 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10723 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10724 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10727 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10728 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10729 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10730 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10731 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10733 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10734 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10735 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10736 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10738 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10739 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10740 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10742 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10743 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10744 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10745 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10748 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10749 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10750 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10751 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10753 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10754 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10755 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10756 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10757 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10758 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10759 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10760 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10764 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10765 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10766 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10768 o Directory authority changes:
10769 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10770 Closes ticket 26343.
10772 o Minor features (geoip):
10773 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10774 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10776 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10777 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10778 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10779 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10780 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10781 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10783 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10784 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10785 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10787 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10788 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10789 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10790 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10791 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10793 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10794 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10795 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10797 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10798 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10799 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10800 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10801 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10802 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10805 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10806 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10807 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10809 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10810 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10811 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10812 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10813 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10814 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10816 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10817 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10819 o New system requirements:
10820 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10821 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10823 o Major features (embedding):
10824 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10825 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10826 Closes ticket 23684.
10827 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10828 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10829 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10830 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10831 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10832 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10834 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10835 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10836 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10837 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10839 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10840 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10841 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10842 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10843 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10845 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10846 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10849 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10850 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10851 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10852 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10853 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10854 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10855 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10857 o Major features (onion services):
10858 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10859 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10860 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10861 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10862 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10864 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10865 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10866 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10867 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10868 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10869 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10871 o Major features (relay):
10872 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10873 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10874 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10875 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10876 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10878 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10879 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10880 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10881 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10882 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10883 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10884 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10885 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10887 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10888 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10889 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10890 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10891 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10893 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10894 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10895 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10896 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10897 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10899 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10900 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10901 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10902 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10904 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10905 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10906 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10907 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10908 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10909 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10910 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10911 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10913 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10914 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10915 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10916 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10918 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10919 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10920 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10922 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10923 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10924 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10925 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10926 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10927 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10928 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10930 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10931 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10932 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10933 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10934 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10936 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10937 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10938 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10941 o Minor features (cleanup):
10942 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10943 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10945 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10946 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10947 Closes ticket 26006.
10949 o Minor features (config options):
10950 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10951 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10952 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10955 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10956 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10957 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10959 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10960 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10961 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10962 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10963 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10964 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10966 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10967 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10968 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10969 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10970 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10971 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10972 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10973 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10974 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10975 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10977 o Minor features (directory authority):
10978 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10979 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10981 o Minor features (embedding):
10982 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10983 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10984 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10985 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10986 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10987 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10988 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10989 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10990 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10991 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10992 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10993 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10994 Closes ticket 23848.
10995 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10996 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10997 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10999 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
11000 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
11001 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
11002 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
11003 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
11004 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
11005 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
11006 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
11009 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
11010 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
11011 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
11012 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
11013 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
11014 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
11015 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
11017 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
11018 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
11019 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
11020 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
11021 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
11022 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
11023 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
11024 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
11025 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
11026 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
11027 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
11028 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
11030 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
11031 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
11032 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
11034 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
11035 Implements ticket 24791.
11037 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
11038 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
11039 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
11040 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
11041 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
11042 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
11044 o Minor features (geoip):
11045 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
11046 database. Closes ticket 26104.
11048 o Minor features (heartbeat):
11049 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
11050 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
11053 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
11054 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
11055 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
11056 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
11057 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
11059 o Minor features (IPv6):
11060 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
11061 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
11062 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
11063 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
11064 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
11067 o Minor features (log messages):
11068 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
11069 information about memory usage from the different compression
11070 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
11071 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
11072 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
11073 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
11074 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
11076 o Minor features (logging):
11077 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
11078 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
11079 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
11082 o Minor features (performance):
11083 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
11084 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
11085 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
11086 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
11088 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
11089 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11090 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
11091 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
11092 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
11093 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
11094 Implements ticket 24374.
11096 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
11097 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
11098 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
11099 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
11100 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
11102 o Minor features (performance, windows):
11103 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
11104 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
11105 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
11108 o Minor features (sandbox):
11109 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
11110 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
11111 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
11113 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
11114 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
11115 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
11116 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
11117 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
11119 o Minor features (testing):
11120 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
11123 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
11124 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
11125 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
11126 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
11127 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
11128 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
11129 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
11130 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
11131 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
11133 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
11134 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
11135 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
11136 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
11137 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
11138 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
11139 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11140 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
11141 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
11144 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
11145 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
11146 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
11147 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
11149 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
11150 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
11151 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
11153 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
11154 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
11155 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
11156 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
11157 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11159 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11160 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
11161 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
11164 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11165 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
11166 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
11167 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11169 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11170 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11171 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11172 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11173 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11174 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11175 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11177 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11178 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
11179 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
11180 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11182 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11183 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11184 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11185 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11186 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11188 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11189 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11190 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11191 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11194 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11195 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11196 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11197 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11198 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11200 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11201 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11202 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11203 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11204 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11207 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11208 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11209 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11210 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11211 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11213 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11214 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11215 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11218 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11219 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11220 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11222 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11223 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11224 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11225 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11226 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11228 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11229 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11230 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11231 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11233 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11234 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11235 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11236 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11237 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11238 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11240 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11241 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11242 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11243 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11245 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11246 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11247 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11249 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11250 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11251 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11252 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11254 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11255 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11256 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
11257 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
11260 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11261 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11262 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11263 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11264 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11265 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11268 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
11269 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11270 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11271 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11273 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11274 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11275 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11277 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11278 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
11279 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
11280 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
11281 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
11282 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11284 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11285 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11286 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11287 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11288 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11289 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11290 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11292 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11293 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11294 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11295 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11297 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11298 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11299 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11300 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11301 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11303 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11304 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11305 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11306 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11307 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11308 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11310 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11311 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11312 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11313 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11314 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11315 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11316 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11317 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11318 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11319 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11320 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11321 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11323 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11324 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11325 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11327 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11328 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11329 would call the Rust implementation of
11330 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11331 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11332 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11333 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11334 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11336 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
11337 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11338 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11339 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11341 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11342 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11343 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11344 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11346 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11347 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11349 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11350 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11351 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11352 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11353 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11354 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11356 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11357 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11358 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11359 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11360 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11362 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11364 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11365 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11366 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11368 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11370 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11371 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11372 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11373 "aruna1234" and teor.
11374 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11375 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11376 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11377 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11379 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11380 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11381 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11382 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11383 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11384 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11385 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11386 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11387 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11388 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11390 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11391 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11394 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11396 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11397 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11398 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11399 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11401 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11402 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11403 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11404 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11406 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11407 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11408 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11409 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11410 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11412 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11413 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11414 adding very little except for unit test.
11416 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11417 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11418 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11419 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11421 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11422 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11423 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11425 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11426 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11427 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11429 o Documentation (man page):
11430 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11431 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11434 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11435 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11436 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11440 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11441 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11444 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11445 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11447 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11448 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11450 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11453 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11454 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11455 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11457 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11458 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11459 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11460 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11463 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11464 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11465 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11466 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11469 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11470 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11471 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11472 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11473 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11474 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11475 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11476 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11477 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11478 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11479 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11480 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11481 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11483 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11484 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11485 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11487 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11488 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11489 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11490 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11491 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11492 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11493 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11495 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11496 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11497 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11499 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11500 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11501 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11502 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11503 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11504 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11505 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11507 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11508 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11509 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11510 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11512 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11513 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11514 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11515 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11517 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11518 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11519 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11520 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11521 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11522 Closes ticket 24978.
11524 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11525 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11526 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11527 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11528 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11529 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11530 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11531 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11532 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11534 o Minor features (geoip):
11535 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11538 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11539 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11540 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11541 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11542 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11544 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11545 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11546 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11547 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11548 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11550 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11551 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11552 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11553 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11554 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11557 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11558 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11559 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11560 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11561 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11562 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11563 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11564 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11565 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11566 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11567 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11570 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11571 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11572 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11574 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11575 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11576 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11579 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11580 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11581 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11582 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11583 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11584 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11585 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11587 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11588 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11589 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11590 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11591 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11592 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11593 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11594 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11595 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11598 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11599 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11600 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11601 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11602 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11603 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11605 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11606 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11607 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11608 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11610 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11611 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11612 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11613 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11614 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11617 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11618 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11619 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11620 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11621 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11622 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11624 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11625 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11626 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11627 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11628 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11629 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11630 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11631 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11632 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11633 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11634 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11635 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11637 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11638 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11639 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11640 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11642 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11643 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11644 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11645 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11647 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11648 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11649 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11650 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11653 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11654 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11655 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11656 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11657 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11659 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11660 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11662 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11663 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11665 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11666 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11667 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11670 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11671 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11672 later Tor releases.
11674 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11675 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11677 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11678 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11680 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11683 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11684 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11685 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11687 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11688 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11689 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11690 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11693 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11694 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11695 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11696 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11697 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11698 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11699 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11700 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11701 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11702 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11703 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11704 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11705 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11707 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11708 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11709 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11710 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11711 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11712 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11713 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11714 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11715 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11717 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11718 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11719 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11720 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11721 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11722 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11723 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11725 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11726 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11727 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11728 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11730 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11731 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11732 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11733 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11734 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11735 Closes ticket 24978.
11737 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11738 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11739 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11740 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11742 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11743 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11744 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11745 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11746 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11747 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11748 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11749 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11750 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11752 o Minor features (geoip):
11753 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11756 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11757 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11758 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11760 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11761 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11762 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11763 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11764 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11766 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11767 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11768 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11769 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11770 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11772 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11773 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11774 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11775 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11776 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11779 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11780 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11781 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11783 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11784 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11785 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11788 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11789 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11790 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11791 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11792 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11793 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11794 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11796 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11797 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11798 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11799 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11800 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11803 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11804 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11805 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11806 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11807 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11808 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11810 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11811 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11812 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11813 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11815 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11816 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11817 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11818 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11819 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11820 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11821 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11822 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11823 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11824 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11825 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11826 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11828 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11829 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11830 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11831 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11834 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11835 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11836 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11837 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11838 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11840 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11841 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11843 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11844 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11847 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11848 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11849 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11852 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11853 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11855 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11856 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11857 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11858 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11859 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11860 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11863 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11864 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11866 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11869 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11870 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11871 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11872 the DoS mitigations.)
11874 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11875 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11876 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11877 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11880 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11881 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11882 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11883 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11885 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11886 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11887 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11888 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11889 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11890 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11891 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11892 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11893 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11894 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11895 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11896 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11897 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11899 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11900 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11901 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11902 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11903 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11904 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11905 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11906 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11907 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11908 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11909 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11911 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11912 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11913 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11915 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11916 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11917 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11918 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11919 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11920 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11921 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11923 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11924 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11925 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11926 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11928 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11929 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11930 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11931 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11933 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11934 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11935 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11936 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11937 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11938 Closes ticket 24978.
11940 o Minor features (geoip):
11941 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11944 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11945 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11946 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11949 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11950 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11951 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11952 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11953 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11955 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11956 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11957 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11958 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11959 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11960 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11961 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11963 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11964 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11965 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11966 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11967 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11969 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11970 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11971 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11972 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11974 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11975 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11976 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11977 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11978 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11980 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11981 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11982 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11983 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11985 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11986 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11987 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11988 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11990 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11991 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11992 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11993 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11995 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11996 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11998 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11999 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
12001 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
12002 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
12003 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
12005 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
12006 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
12007 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
12008 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
12009 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
12011 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
12012 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
12013 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
12015 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
12016 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
12017 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
12021 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
12022 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
12024 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
12025 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
12026 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
12027 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
12028 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
12029 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
12031 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
12032 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
12033 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
12034 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
12035 with the 0.2.9 series.
12037 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
12038 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
12040 o Directory authority changes:
12041 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12042 Closes ticket 23910.
12043 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12044 Closes ticket 23592.
12045 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
12046 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
12047 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
12048 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
12049 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12052 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
12053 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
12054 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
12055 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
12056 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
12057 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
12060 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
12061 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
12063 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
12066 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
12069 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
12071 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
12073 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
12075 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
12076 they are 56 characters long, as in
12077 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
12079 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
12080 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
12081 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
12082 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
12083 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
12086 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
12087 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
12088 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
12089 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
12090 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
12091 options. For more information, see our blog post at
12092 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
12094 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
12095 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
12096 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
12097 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
12098 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
12099 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
12100 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
12101 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
12102 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
12103 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
12104 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
12105 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
12107 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
12108 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
12109 more information, see the design paper at
12110 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
12111 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
12112 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
12113 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
12115 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
12116 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12117 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12118 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12119 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12120 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12121 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12122 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12124 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
12125 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12126 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12127 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12130 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
12131 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12132 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12133 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12134 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12135 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12136 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12137 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12138 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12139 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12140 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12141 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12144 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
12145 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12146 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12147 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12148 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12149 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12150 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12151 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12152 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12154 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12155 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
12156 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
12157 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
12158 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
12159 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
12160 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
12161 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
12162 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
12163 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
12164 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
12167 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
12168 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
12169 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
12170 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
12171 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
12172 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
12173 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12175 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
12176 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12177 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12178 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12179 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12180 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12183 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12184 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12185 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12186 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12188 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12189 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12190 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12191 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12193 o Minor features (bridge):
12194 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
12195 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
12196 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12197 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12198 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12199 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12200 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12201 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12202 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12203 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12204 related to ticket 23080.
12206 o Minor features (bug detection):
12207 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12208 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12209 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12211 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12212 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12213 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12214 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12215 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12216 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12217 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12218 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12219 Closes ticket 23643.
12221 o Minor features (client):
12222 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12223 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12224 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12225 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12226 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12227 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12228 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12229 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12230 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12231 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12232 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12233 Resolves ticket 23670.
12235 o Minor features (command line):
12236 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12237 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12238 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12240 o Minor features (control port):
12241 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12242 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12243 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12245 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12246 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12248 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12249 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12250 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12251 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12252 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12253 Closes ticket 23237.
12254 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12255 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12257 o Minor features (development support):
12258 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12259 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12260 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12261 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12262 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12263 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12265 o Minor features (directory authority):
12266 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12267 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12268 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12269 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12271 o Minor features (ed25519):
12272 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12273 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12274 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12276 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12277 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12278 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12280 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12281 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12282 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12283 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12284 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12285 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12286 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12287 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12288 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12290 o Minor features (geoip):
12291 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12294 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12295 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12296 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12297 another program, regardless of the settings of
12298 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12299 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12300 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12302 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12303 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12304 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12306 o Minor features (logging):
12307 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12309 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12310 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12312 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12313 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12314 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12315 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12316 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12317 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12318 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12319 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12320 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12321 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12323 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12324 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12326 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
12327 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12328 the circuit identifier(s).
12329 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12330 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12332 o Minor features (portability):
12333 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12334 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12336 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12337 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12338 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12339 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12341 o Minor features (relay):
12342 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12343 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12344 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12345 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12346 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12347 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12348 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12349 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12351 o Minor features (relay statistics):
12352 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12353 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12354 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12356 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
12357 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12358 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12359 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12360 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12362 o Minor features (robustness):
12363 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12364 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12366 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12367 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12368 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12371 o Minor features (static analysis):
12372 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12373 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12376 o Minor features (testing):
12377 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12378 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12379 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12380 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12382 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12383 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12384 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12385 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
12386 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12388 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12389 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12390 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12391 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12392 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12395 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12396 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12397 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12400 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12401 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12402 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12403 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12404 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12405 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12406 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12407 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12408 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12409 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12410 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12411 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12412 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12414 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12415 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12416 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12417 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12419 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12420 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12421 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12422 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12423 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12424 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12425 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12426 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12427 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12428 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12429 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12430 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12431 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12432 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12433 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12434 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12435 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12437 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12438 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12439 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12440 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12442 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12443 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12444 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12445 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12447 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12448 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12449 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12450 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12451 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12452 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12453 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12454 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12456 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12457 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12458 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12459 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12460 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12461 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12462 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12463 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12464 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12465 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12466 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12467 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12468 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12469 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12472 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12473 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12474 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12477 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12478 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12479 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12480 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12482 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12483 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12484 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12487 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12488 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12489 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12490 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12492 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12493 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12494 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12495 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12496 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12497 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12498 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12499 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12500 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12503 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12504 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12505 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12506 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12507 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12509 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12510 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12511 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12512 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12513 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12514 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12516 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12517 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12520 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12521 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12522 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12523 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12524 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12525 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12527 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12528 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12529 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12530 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12532 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12533 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12534 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12535 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12536 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12537 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12539 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12540 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12541 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12542 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12543 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12544 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12545 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12548 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12549 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12550 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12551 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12553 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12554 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12555 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12556 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12557 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12558 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12559 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12560 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12561 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12562 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12564 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12565 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12566 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12568 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12569 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12570 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12572 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12573 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12574 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12575 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12576 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12577 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12579 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12580 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12581 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12582 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12583 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12584 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12586 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12587 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12588 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12590 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12591 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12592 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12593 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12594 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12597 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12598 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12599 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12600 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12601 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12602 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12604 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12605 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12606 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12607 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12608 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12609 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12610 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12612 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12613 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12614 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12615 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12616 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12617 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12618 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12619 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12620 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12622 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12623 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12624 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12625 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12626 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12627 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12628 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12629 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12630 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12631 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12632 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12633 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12635 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12636 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12637 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12638 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12639 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12640 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12643 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12644 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12645 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12646 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12647 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12648 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12649 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12650 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12651 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12652 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12653 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12654 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12656 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12657 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12658 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12659 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12660 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12661 Closes ticket 24109.
12662 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12663 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12664 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12665 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12667 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12668 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12670 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12671 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12672 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12673 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12674 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12675 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12676 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12677 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12678 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12679 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12680 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12682 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12683 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12684 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12685 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12687 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12688 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12689 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12691 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12692 function from the general code to handle channel state
12693 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12694 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12695 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12696 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12697 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12698 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12699 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12700 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12702 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12703 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12705 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12706 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12707 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12708 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12709 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12710 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12711 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12712 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12713 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12714 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12715 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12716 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12718 o Deprecated features:
12719 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12720 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12721 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12722 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12723 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12724 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12728 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12729 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12730 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12731 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12732 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12733 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12734 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12735 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12736 Closes ticket 18736.
12737 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12738 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12739 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12740 Closes ticket 15645.
12741 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12742 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12743 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12744 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12746 o Removed features:
12747 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12748 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12749 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12750 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12751 Closes ticket 21031.
12752 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12753 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12756 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12757 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12758 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12759 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12761 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12762 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12763 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12764 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12765 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12766 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12767 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12768 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12769 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12770 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12771 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12773 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12774 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12775 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12776 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12777 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12778 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12779 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12782 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12783 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12784 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12785 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12786 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12788 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12789 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12790 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12791 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12792 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12793 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12794 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12795 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12796 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12798 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12799 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12800 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12801 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12802 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12803 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12806 o Minor features (bridge):
12807 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12808 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12809 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12810 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12813 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12814 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12817 o Minor features (geoip):
12818 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12821 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12822 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12823 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12824 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12825 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12827 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12828 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12829 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12831 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12832 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12833 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12834 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12835 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12836 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12838 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12839 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12840 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12843 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12844 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12845 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12846 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12847 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12850 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12851 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12852 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12853 to another of the releases coming out today.
12855 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12856 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12857 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12859 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12860 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12861 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12862 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12863 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12864 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12865 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12866 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12867 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12868 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12869 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12871 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12872 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12873 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12874 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12875 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12876 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12877 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12880 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12881 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12882 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12883 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12884 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12886 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12887 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12888 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12889 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12890 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12891 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12892 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12893 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12894 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12896 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12897 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12898 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12899 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12900 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12901 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12904 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12905 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12906 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12907 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12908 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12909 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12911 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12912 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12913 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12914 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12915 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12918 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12919 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12922 o Minor features (geoip):
12923 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12926 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12927 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12928 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12929 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12930 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12932 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12933 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12934 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12936 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12937 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12938 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12939 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12940 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12941 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12943 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12944 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12945 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12946 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12947 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12949 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12950 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12951 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12954 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12955 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12956 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12957 to another of the releases coming out today.
12959 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12960 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12961 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12962 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12963 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12964 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12967 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12968 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12969 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12970 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12971 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12972 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12973 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12974 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12975 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12976 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12977 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12979 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12980 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12981 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12982 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12983 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12984 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12985 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12988 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12989 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12990 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12991 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12992 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12994 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12995 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12996 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12997 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12998 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12999 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13001 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13002 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13003 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13004 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13005 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13008 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13009 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13012 o Minor features (geoip):
13013 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13016 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13017 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13018 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13019 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13020 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13021 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13023 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13024 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
13025 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
13026 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
13027 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13029 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13030 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
13031 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13033 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13034 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
13035 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
13036 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
13037 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
13038 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13040 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
13041 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
13042 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
13043 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
13044 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13046 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13047 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13048 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13051 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
13052 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13053 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13054 to another of the releases coming out today.
13056 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13057 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
13058 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13060 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13061 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13062 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13063 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13064 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13065 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13066 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13067 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13068 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13069 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13070 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13071 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13072 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13073 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13074 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13077 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13078 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
13079 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
13080 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
13081 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
13083 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13084 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
13085 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
13086 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
13087 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
13090 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13091 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13092 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13093 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13094 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13097 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13098 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
13101 o Minor features (geoip):
13102 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13105 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13106 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13107 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13110 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
13111 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
13112 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
13113 to another of the releases coming out today.
13115 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13116 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13117 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13119 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13120 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
13121 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
13122 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
13123 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
13124 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
13125 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
13126 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
13127 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
13128 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
13129 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
13130 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
13131 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
13132 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
13133 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
13136 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
13137 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
13138 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
13139 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
13140 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
13141 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
13143 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
13144 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
13145 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
13146 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
13147 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
13150 o Minor features (geoip):
13151 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13155 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
13156 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13157 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13159 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
13160 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
13161 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13163 o Directory authority changes:
13164 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13165 Closes ticket 23910.
13166 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13167 Closes ticket 23592.
13169 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13170 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13171 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13172 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13173 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13175 o Minor features (geoip):
13176 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13179 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13180 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13181 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13182 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13183 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13184 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13185 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13186 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13187 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13189 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13190 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13191 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13192 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13193 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13194 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13195 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13196 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13197 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13200 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13201 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13202 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13203 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13205 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13206 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13207 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13209 o Directory authority changes:
13210 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13211 Closes ticket 23910.
13212 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13213 Closes ticket 23592.
13215 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13216 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13217 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13218 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13220 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13221 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13222 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13223 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13224 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13226 o Minor features (geoip):
13227 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13231 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13232 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13233 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13234 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13236 o Directory authority changes:
13237 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13238 Closes ticket 23910.
13239 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13240 Closes ticket 23592.
13242 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13243 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13244 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13245 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13247 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13248 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13249 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13250 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13251 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13253 o Minor features (geoip):
13254 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13257 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13258 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13259 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13260 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13261 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13262 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13263 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13264 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13267 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13268 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13269 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13271 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13272 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13273 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13274 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13275 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13276 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13277 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13280 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13281 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13282 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13283 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13285 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13286 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13287 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13289 o Directory authority changes:
13290 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13291 Closes ticket 23910.
13292 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13293 Closes ticket 23592.
13295 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13296 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13297 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13298 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13300 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13301 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13302 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13303 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13304 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13306 o Minor features (geoip):
13307 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13310 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13311 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13312 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13313 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13314 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13315 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13316 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13317 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13320 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13321 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13322 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13323 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13325 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13326 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13327 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13329 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13330 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13331 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13332 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13333 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13334 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13335 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13338 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13339 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13340 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13341 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13342 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13344 o Directory authority changes:
13345 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13346 Closes ticket 23910.
13347 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13348 Closes ticket 23592.
13350 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13351 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13352 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13353 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13355 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13356 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13357 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13358 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13359 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13361 o Minor features (geoip):
13362 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13365 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13366 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13367 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13368 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13370 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13371 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13372 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13375 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13376 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13377 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13379 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13380 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13381 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13382 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13384 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13385 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13386 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13388 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13389 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13390 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13394 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13395 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13398 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13399 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13400 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13401 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13403 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13404 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13405 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13406 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13408 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13409 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13410 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13411 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13412 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13415 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13418 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13419 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13420 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13423 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13424 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13425 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13426 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13427 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13428 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13429 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13430 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13431 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13433 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13434 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13435 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13436 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13437 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13438 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13439 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13440 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13441 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13444 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13445 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13448 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13449 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13450 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13451 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13453 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13454 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13455 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13456 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13457 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13458 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13459 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13461 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13462 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13463 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13464 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13466 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13467 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13468 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13470 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13471 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13472 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13473 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13475 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13476 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13477 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13478 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13479 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13481 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13482 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13483 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13484 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13486 o Minor features (geoip):
13487 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13490 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13491 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13492 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13493 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13495 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13496 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13497 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13498 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13499 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13500 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13501 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13502 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13504 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13505 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13506 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13508 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13509 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13510 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13513 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13514 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13515 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13516 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13517 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13519 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13520 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13521 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13522 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13523 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13524 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13526 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13527 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13528 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13529 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13530 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13531 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13532 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13533 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13534 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13536 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13537 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13538 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13539 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13541 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13542 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13543 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13545 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13546 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13547 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13548 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13549 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13551 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13552 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13553 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13556 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13557 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13558 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13559 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13560 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13562 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13563 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13564 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13565 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13566 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13567 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13568 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13569 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13570 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13573 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13574 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13577 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13578 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13579 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13580 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13582 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13583 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13584 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13585 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13588 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13591 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13592 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13593 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13595 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13596 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13597 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13598 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13599 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13601 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13602 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13603 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13604 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13606 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13607 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13608 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13610 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13611 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13612 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13613 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13616 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13617 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13619 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13620 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13621 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13622 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13623 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13624 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13625 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13627 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13628 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13629 disabled. For more information, see
13630 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13632 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13633 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13634 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13635 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13636 with the 0.2.9 series.
13638 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13639 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13641 o New dependencies:
13642 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13643 pkg-config tool at build time.
13645 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13646 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13647 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13648 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13649 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13651 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13652 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13653 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13654 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13655 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13656 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13657 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13658 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13659 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13661 o Major features (directory protocol):
13662 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13663 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13664 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13665 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13666 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13667 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13668 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13669 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13670 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13671 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13672 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13673 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13674 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13675 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13676 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13677 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13678 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13680 o Major features (experimental):
13681 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13682 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13683 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13684 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13685 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13686 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13687 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13689 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13690 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13691 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13692 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13693 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13694 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13697 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13698 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13699 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13700 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13701 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13702 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13703 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13704 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13705 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13706 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13707 multiples of 10000.
13709 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13710 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13711 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13712 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13713 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13714 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13715 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13718 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13719 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13720 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13721 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13722 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13723 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13725 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13726 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13727 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13728 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13729 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13730 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13731 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13732 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13733 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13734 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13735 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13736 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13737 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13738 Otherwise it is at info.
13740 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13741 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13742 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13743 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13744 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13745 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13746 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13748 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13749 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13750 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13751 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13753 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13754 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13755 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13756 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13757 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13759 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13760 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13761 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13762 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13763 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13764 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13765 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13768 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13769 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13770 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13771 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13772 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13773 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13774 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13775 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13776 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13777 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13778 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13779 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13780 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13783 o Minor features (security, windows):
13784 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13785 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13786 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13787 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13788 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13790 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13791 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13792 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13794 o Minor features (code style):
13795 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13796 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13797 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13799 o Minor features (config options):
13800 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13801 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13802 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13803 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13804 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13805 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13806 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13807 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13809 o Minor features (controller):
13810 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13811 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13813 o Minor features (defaults):
13814 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13815 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13816 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13817 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13818 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13819 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13820 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13821 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13822 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13823 Closes ticket 21641.
13825 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13826 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13827 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13828 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13831 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13832 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13833 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13834 attempt for bug 23105.
13835 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13836 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13837 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13838 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13839 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13840 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13841 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13843 o Minor features (directory authority):
13844 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13845 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13846 Closes ticket 22348.
13848 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13849 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13850 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13851 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13852 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13855 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13856 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13857 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13858 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13859 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13860 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13861 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13863 o Minor features (geoip):
13864 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13867 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13868 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13869 introduction points than specified in
13870 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13871 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13872 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13873 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13874 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13875 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13876 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13877 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13879 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13880 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13881 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13882 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13883 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13884 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13885 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13886 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13887 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13888 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13890 o Minor features (logging):
13891 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13892 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13893 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13894 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13897 o Minor features (performance):
13898 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13899 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13901 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13902 speed some controller functions.
13904 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13905 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13906 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13907 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13909 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13910 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13911 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13912 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13913 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13914 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13917 o Minor features (safety):
13918 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13919 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13920 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13923 o Minor features (testing):
13924 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13926 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13927 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13928 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13929 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13930 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13931 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13932 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13933 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13934 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13935 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13936 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13937 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13938 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13939 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13940 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13941 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13943 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13944 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13945 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13946 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13948 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13949 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13950 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13951 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13954 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13955 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13956 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13957 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13958 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13959 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13960 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13961 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13964 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13965 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13966 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13968 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13969 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13970 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13971 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13972 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13973 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13975 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13976 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13977 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13979 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13980 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13981 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13982 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13983 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13984 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13985 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13986 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13987 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13988 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13989 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13990 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13991 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13992 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13994 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13995 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13996 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13997 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13998 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13999 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
14000 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
14001 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
14002 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
14003 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
14004 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
14005 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14007 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14008 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14009 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14011 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
14012 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14013 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14014 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14015 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14016 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14018 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
14019 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
14020 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
14021 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
14022 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14023 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14024 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14025 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14026 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14027 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14028 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14029 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14031 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
14032 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
14033 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
14034 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
14035 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
14036 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
14037 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
14038 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
14040 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14041 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14042 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14043 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
14044 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
14045 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
14047 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
14048 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
14049 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
14052 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
14053 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
14054 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
14055 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
14056 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
14058 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14059 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
14060 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14061 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
14062 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
14063 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14064 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
14065 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14066 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
14067 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
14068 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14070 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
14071 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
14072 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
14073 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14075 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14076 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
14077 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
14078 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
14079 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
14080 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
14081 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
14082 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
14083 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
14084 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
14085 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14086 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
14087 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
14088 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14090 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
14091 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14092 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14093 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14094 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14095 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14096 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14098 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14099 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14100 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14101 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14102 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14103 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14104 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14106 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
14107 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
14108 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
14109 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14110 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
14111 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
14112 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
14113 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
14114 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
14115 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
14116 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14117 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
14118 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
14120 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
14121 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
14122 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
14123 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
14125 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
14126 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
14127 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
14129 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
14130 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
14131 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
14132 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
14134 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14135 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
14136 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
14137 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14139 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
14140 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
14141 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
14142 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14143 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14144 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14145 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
14146 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
14147 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
14149 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
14150 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
14151 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
14152 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
14153 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
14154 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
14155 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
14158 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
14159 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
14160 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
14161 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
14162 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
14163 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
14165 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14166 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
14167 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
14168 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14169 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14170 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14171 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14172 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14173 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14174 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14175 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14176 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14177 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14178 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14179 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
14180 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
14183 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14184 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14185 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14186 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14187 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14189 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
14190 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14191 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14192 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14193 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14194 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14195 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14197 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14198 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14199 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14201 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14202 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14203 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14204 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14205 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14206 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14207 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14208 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14209 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14210 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14211 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14212 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14214 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14215 Resolves ticket 22213.
14216 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14217 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14218 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14219 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14220 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14221 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14222 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14223 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14226 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14228 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14229 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14231 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14232 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14233 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14235 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14237 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14238 Closes ticket 21873.
14239 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14240 Closes ticket 21151.
14241 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14242 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14244 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14245 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14246 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14247 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14249 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14250 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14251 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14252 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14253 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14254 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14255 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14256 default behavior is now unavailable.
14257 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14258 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14259 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14260 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14261 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14262 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14263 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14265 o Removed features (tools):
14266 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14267 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14268 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14269 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14270 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14273 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14274 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14275 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14276 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14278 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14279 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14280 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14281 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14282 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14283 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14284 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14285 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14286 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14288 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14289 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14290 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14291 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14293 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14294 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14295 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14296 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14297 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14299 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14300 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14303 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14304 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14305 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14306 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14309 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14310 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14311 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14312 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14313 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14314 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14315 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14318 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14319 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14320 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14323 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14324 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14325 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14326 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14327 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14328 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14330 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14331 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14332 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14333 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14335 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14336 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14337 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14339 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14340 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14341 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14344 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14345 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14346 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14347 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14348 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14351 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14354 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14355 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14356 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14357 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14358 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14359 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14361 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14362 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14363 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14364 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14366 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14367 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14368 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14369 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14371 o Minor features (geoip):
14372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14375 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14376 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14377 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14378 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14379 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14381 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14382 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14383 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14384 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14385 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14387 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14388 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14389 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14390 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14391 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14392 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14393 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14394 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14395 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14398 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14399 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14400 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14401 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14402 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14404 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14405 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14406 bugfixes described below.
14408 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14409 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14410 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14411 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14412 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14413 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14414 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14415 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14418 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14419 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14420 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14421 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14422 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14423 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14424 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14427 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14428 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14429 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14430 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14431 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14432 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14433 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14434 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14435 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14436 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14437 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14438 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14439 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14442 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14443 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14444 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14447 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14448 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14449 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14450 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14451 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14453 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14454 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14455 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14457 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14458 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14459 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14461 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14462 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14463 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14464 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14465 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14466 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14467 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14469 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14471 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14472 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14473 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14476 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14477 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14478 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14479 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14480 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14481 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14483 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14484 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14485 bugfixes described below.
14487 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14488 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14489 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14490 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14491 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14494 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14495 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14496 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14497 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14498 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14499 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14500 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14503 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14504 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14505 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14506 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14507 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14509 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14510 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14511 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14512 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14513 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14514 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14515 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14517 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14518 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14519 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14520 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14521 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14523 o Minor features (geoip):
14524 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14527 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14528 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14529 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14530 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14532 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14533 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14534 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14536 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14537 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14538 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14539 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14540 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14543 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14544 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14545 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14546 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14547 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14549 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14550 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14551 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14552 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14553 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14554 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14556 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14557 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14558 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14559 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14562 o Minor features (geoip):
14563 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14566 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14567 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14568 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14569 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14570 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14572 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14573 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14574 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14576 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14577 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14578 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14579 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14580 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14581 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14583 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14584 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14585 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14586 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14589 o Minor features (geoip):
14590 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14593 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14594 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14595 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14598 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14599 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14600 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14601 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14602 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14603 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14605 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14606 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14607 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14608 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14611 o Minor features (geoip):
14612 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14615 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14616 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14617 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14619 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14620 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14621 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14622 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14623 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14624 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14626 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14627 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14628 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14629 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14632 o Minor features (geoip):
14633 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14636 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14637 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14638 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14640 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14641 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14642 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14643 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14644 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14645 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14647 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14648 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14649 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14650 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14653 o Minor features (geoip):
14654 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14657 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14658 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14659 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14662 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14663 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14664 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14665 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14666 clients are not affected.
14668 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14669 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14670 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14671 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14672 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14673 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14676 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14679 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14680 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14681 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14682 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14683 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14684 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14685 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14687 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14688 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14689 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14690 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14691 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14695 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14696 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14698 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14699 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14700 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14701 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14702 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14703 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14706 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14707 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14709 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14710 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14711 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14712 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14713 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14715 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14716 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14718 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14719 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14720 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14721 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14723 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14724 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14725 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14726 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14727 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14730 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14731 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14732 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14733 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14734 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14735 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14736 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14737 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14740 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14741 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14742 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14743 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14744 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14745 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14746 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14747 15056; part of proposal 220.
14748 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14749 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14750 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14751 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14752 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14753 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14754 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14755 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14756 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14759 o Major features (security):
14760 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14761 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14762 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14763 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14764 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14765 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14767 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14768 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14769 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14770 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14771 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14772 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14773 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14774 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14775 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14776 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14777 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14779 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14780 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14781 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14782 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14784 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14785 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14786 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14787 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14790 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14791 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14792 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14794 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14795 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14796 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14797 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14798 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14799 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14800 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14802 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14803 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14804 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14805 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14806 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14807 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14808 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14809 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14810 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14811 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14812 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14813 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14814 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14815 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14816 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14818 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14819 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14820 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14821 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14822 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14824 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14825 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14826 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14827 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14828 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14829 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14830 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14832 o Minor feature (client):
14833 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14834 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14836 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14837 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14838 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14839 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14841 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14842 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14843 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14845 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14846 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14847 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14848 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14849 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14851 o Minor features (controller):
14852 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14853 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14854 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14855 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14858 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14859 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14860 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14861 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14862 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14863 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14864 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14865 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14866 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14867 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14869 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14870 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14871 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14874 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14875 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14876 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14878 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14879 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14880 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14882 o Minor features (directory authority):
14883 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14884 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14885 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14886 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14887 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14889 o Minor features (directory cache):
14890 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14891 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14894 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14895 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14896 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14897 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14899 o Minor features (entry guards):
14900 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14901 break regression tests.
14902 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14903 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14905 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14906 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14907 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14908 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14909 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14910 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14911 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14912 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14913 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14914 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14915 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14916 Closes ticket 20539.
14917 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14918 Closes ticket 20822.
14919 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14921 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14922 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14923 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14924 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14925 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14927 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14928 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14929 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14930 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14931 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14934 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14935 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14936 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14937 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14939 o Minor features (geoip):
14940 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14943 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14944 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14947 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14948 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14949 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14951 o Minor features (linting):
14952 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14953 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14955 o Minor features (logging):
14956 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14957 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14959 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14960 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14961 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14963 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14964 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14966 o Minor features (relay):
14967 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14968 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14969 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14970 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14972 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14973 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14974 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14977 o Minor features (testing):
14978 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14979 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14980 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14982 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14983 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14984 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14985 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14986 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14987 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14988 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14989 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14990 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14992 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14993 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14994 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14995 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14996 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14999 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
15000 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
15001 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
15002 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
15004 o Minor bugfixes (build):
15005 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
15006 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
15009 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
15010 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
15011 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
15013 o Minor bugfixes (client):
15014 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
15015 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
15016 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
15017 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
15018 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
15019 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
15021 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
15022 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15023 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15025 o Minor bugfixes (config):
15026 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
15027 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
15028 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
15029 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
15031 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
15032 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
15033 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
15034 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
15035 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
15036 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
15038 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
15039 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
15040 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
15041 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
15042 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
15043 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
15044 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
15047 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
15048 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
15049 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
15050 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
15051 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
15053 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
15054 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
15055 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
15056 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15058 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
15059 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
15060 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
15061 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
15062 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15064 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
15065 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
15066 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
15067 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
15068 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15070 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
15071 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
15072 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
15073 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15074 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
15075 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
15076 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
15079 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
15080 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
15081 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
15082 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
15083 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
15084 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
15085 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
15086 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
15087 on all recent tor versions.
15089 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
15090 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
15091 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
15093 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
15094 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
15095 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15097 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
15098 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
15099 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
15100 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
15101 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15102 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
15103 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
15104 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
15105 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15107 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
15108 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
15109 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
15110 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
15111 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15112 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
15113 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
15114 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15115 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
15116 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
15117 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
15120 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
15121 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
15122 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
15123 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15124 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
15125 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
15126 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
15127 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
15128 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
15129 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
15130 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
15133 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
15134 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
15135 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
15136 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
15137 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
15138 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
15139 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
15140 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
15142 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
15143 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
15144 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
15147 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
15148 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
15149 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
15151 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15152 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
15153 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
15154 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
15157 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
15158 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15159 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15160 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15162 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15163 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15165 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
15166 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
15167 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15169 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15170 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15171 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15172 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15174 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15175 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15176 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
15177 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15178 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15179 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15180 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15181 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15183 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15184 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15185 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15186 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15187 Patch by "junglefowl".
15189 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15190 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15191 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15192 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15193 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15195 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15196 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15197 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15198 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15199 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15201 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15202 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15203 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15206 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15207 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15208 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15209 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15211 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15212 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15213 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15214 Closes ticket 19858.
15215 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15216 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15217 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15218 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15219 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15220 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15221 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15222 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15223 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15224 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15225 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15226 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15227 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15228 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15229 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15230 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15231 channel abstraction.
15232 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15233 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15234 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15235 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15236 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15237 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15240 o Documentation (formatting):
15241 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15242 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15244 o Documentation (man page):
15245 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15246 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15249 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15250 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15252 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15253 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15254 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15256 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15257 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
15258 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15259 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15260 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15261 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15262 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15263 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15264 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15265 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15267 o Removed features:
15268 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15269 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15270 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15272 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15273 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15274 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15277 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15278 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15279 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15281 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15282 from "overcaffeinated".
15283 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15284 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15287 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15288 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15289 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15290 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15291 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15294 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15295 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15296 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15298 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15299 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15300 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15301 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15302 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15303 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15304 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15306 o Minor features (geoip):
15307 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15311 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15312 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15313 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15314 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15317 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15318 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15319 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15321 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15322 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15324 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15325 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15326 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15328 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15329 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15330 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15333 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15334 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15335 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15336 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15337 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15338 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15339 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15340 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15341 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15343 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15344 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15345 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15346 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15347 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15348 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15349 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15350 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15351 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15352 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15353 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15354 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15355 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15357 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15358 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15359 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15360 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15361 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15363 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15364 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15365 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15367 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15368 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15369 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15370 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15371 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15372 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15373 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15376 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15377 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15378 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15379 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15380 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15381 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15382 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15384 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15385 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15386 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15387 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15390 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15391 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15392 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15393 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15395 o Minor features (geoip):
15396 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15400 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15401 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15402 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15403 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15406 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15407 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15408 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15410 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15411 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15413 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15414 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15415 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15417 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15418 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15419 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15422 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15423 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15424 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15425 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15426 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15427 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15428 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15429 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15430 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15432 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15433 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15434 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15435 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15436 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15437 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15438 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15439 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15440 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15442 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15443 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15444 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15445 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15446 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15448 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15449 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15450 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15451 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15452 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15455 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15456 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15457 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15458 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15459 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15461 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15462 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15463 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15465 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15466 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15467 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15468 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15469 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15470 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15473 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15474 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15475 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15476 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15477 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15478 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15479 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15482 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15483 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15484 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15485 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15486 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15487 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15488 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15490 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15491 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15492 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15493 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15496 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15497 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15498 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15499 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15501 o Minor features (geoip):
15502 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15505 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15506 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15507 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15510 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15511 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15512 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15513 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15516 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15517 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15518 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15520 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15521 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15523 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15524 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15525 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15527 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15528 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15529 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15532 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15533 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15534 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15535 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15536 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15537 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15538 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15539 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15540 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15542 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15543 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15544 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15545 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15546 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15547 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15548 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15549 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15550 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15552 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15553 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15554 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15555 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15556 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15558 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15559 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15560 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15561 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15562 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15565 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15566 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15567 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15568 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15569 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15571 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15572 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15573 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15575 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15576 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15577 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15578 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15579 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15580 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15583 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15584 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15585 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15586 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15587 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15588 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15589 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15592 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15593 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15594 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15595 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15596 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15597 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15598 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15600 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15601 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15602 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15603 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15606 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15607 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15608 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15609 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15611 o Minor features (geoip):
15612 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15615 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15616 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15617 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15619 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15620 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15621 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15622 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15623 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15624 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15626 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15627 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15628 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15632 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15633 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15634 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15635 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15638 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15639 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15640 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15642 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15643 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15645 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15646 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15647 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15649 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15650 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15651 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15654 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15655 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15656 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15657 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15658 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15659 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15660 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15661 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15662 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15664 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15665 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15666 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15667 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15668 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15669 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15670 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15671 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15672 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15674 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15675 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15676 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15677 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15678 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15681 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15682 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15683 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15684 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15685 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15687 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15688 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15689 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15691 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15692 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15693 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15694 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15695 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15696 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15699 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15700 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15701 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15702 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15703 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15704 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15705 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15708 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15709 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15710 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15711 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15712 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15713 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15714 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15716 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15717 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15718 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15719 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15722 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15723 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15724 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15725 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15727 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15728 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15729 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15730 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15732 o Minor features (geoip):
15733 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15736 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15737 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15738 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15740 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15741 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15742 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15746 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15747 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15748 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15749 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15751 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15752 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15753 least January of 2020.
15755 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15756 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15757 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15758 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15761 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15762 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15763 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15764 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15765 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15766 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15767 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15769 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15770 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15771 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15772 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15773 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15774 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15775 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15777 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15778 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15779 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15781 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15782 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15783 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15785 o Minor features (geoip):
15786 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15789 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15790 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15791 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15793 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15794 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15796 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15797 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15798 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15800 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15801 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15802 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15803 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15804 Patch by "junglefowl".
15807 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15808 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15809 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15810 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15811 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15812 version should upgrade.
15814 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15815 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15817 o Major bugfixes (security):
15818 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15819 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15820 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15821 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15822 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15823 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15825 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15826 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15827 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15828 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15829 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15830 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15831 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15832 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15833 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15834 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15835 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15837 o Minor features (geoip):
15838 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15841 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15842 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15843 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15844 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15846 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15847 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15850 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15851 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15852 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15853 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15854 become available for their systems.
15856 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15859 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15860 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15862 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15863 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15864 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15865 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15866 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15867 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15868 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15869 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15870 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15872 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15873 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15874 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15875 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15876 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15878 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15879 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15883 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15884 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15886 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15887 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15888 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15889 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15890 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15891 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15892 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15893 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15895 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15897 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15898 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15899 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15900 become available for their systems.
15902 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15903 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15905 o New system requirements:
15906 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15907 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15908 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15909 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15910 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15911 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15912 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15913 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15914 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15915 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15916 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15918 o Deprecated features:
15919 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15920 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15921 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15922 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15923 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15924 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15925 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15926 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15927 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15928 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15929 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15930 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15931 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15932 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15933 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15934 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15935 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15936 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15937 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15938 and TransListenAddress.
15940 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15941 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15942 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15943 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15944 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15945 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15946 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15947 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15948 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15950 o Major features (build, hardening):
15951 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15952 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15953 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15954 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15955 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15956 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15957 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15958 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15959 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15961 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15962 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15963 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15964 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15966 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15967 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15969 o Major features (compilation):
15970 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15971 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15972 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15973 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15975 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15976 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15977 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15979 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15980 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15981 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15982 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15983 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15984 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15985 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15986 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15988 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15989 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15990 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15991 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15992 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15993 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15994 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15996 o Major features (resource management):
15997 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15998 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15999 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
16000 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
16001 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
16002 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
16004 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
16005 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
16006 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
16007 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
16008 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
16009 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
16010 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
16011 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
16012 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
16013 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
16014 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
16016 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
16017 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
16018 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
16019 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
16020 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
16021 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
16022 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
16023 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
16024 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
16025 part of proposal 264.
16027 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
16028 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
16029 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
16030 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
16032 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
16033 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
16034 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
16035 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
16036 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
16037 download, stop waiting for certificates.
16038 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
16039 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
16040 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
16042 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
16043 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
16044 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
16046 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
16047 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
16048 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
16049 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
16050 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
16051 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
16052 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16054 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16055 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
16056 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
16057 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
16058 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
16059 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
16060 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
16061 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
16062 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
16063 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16065 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
16066 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
16067 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
16068 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
16069 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
16070 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16072 o Minor features (port flags):
16073 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
16074 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
16075 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
16076 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
16077 18693; patch by "teor".
16079 o Minor features (build, hardening):
16080 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
16081 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
16082 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
16083 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
16084 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
16085 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
16086 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
16087 Closes ticket 18895.
16089 o Minor features (client, directory):
16090 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
16091 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
16092 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
16095 o Minor features (code safety):
16096 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
16097 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
16098 patch from "U+039b".
16100 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
16101 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
16104 o Minor features (config):
16105 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
16106 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
16108 o Minor features (controller):
16109 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
16110 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
16111 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
16112 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
16113 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
16114 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
16115 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
16116 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
16118 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
16119 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
16120 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
16123 o Minor features (directory authority):
16124 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
16125 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
16126 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
16127 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
16128 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
16129 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
16130 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
16131 Implements ticket 18624.
16132 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
16133 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
16134 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
16137 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
16138 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
16139 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
16140 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
16141 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
16143 o Minor features (hidden service):
16144 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
16145 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
16146 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
16149 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
16150 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
16151 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
16152 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
16153 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
16154 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
16155 Closes ticket 18365.
16156 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
16157 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
16158 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
16159 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
16161 o Minor features (logging):
16162 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
16163 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
16164 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
16165 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
16166 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16167 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
16168 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16169 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16170 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16171 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16173 o Minor features (performance):
16174 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16175 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16176 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16177 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16178 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16179 Closes ticket 18815.
16181 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16182 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16183 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16184 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16185 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16188 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16189 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
16190 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16191 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16192 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16194 o Minor features (testing):
16195 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16196 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16197 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16198 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16199 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16200 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16201 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16202 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16203 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16204 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16206 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16207 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16208 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16209 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16210 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
16211 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16212 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16214 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16215 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16216 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16217 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16218 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16219 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16220 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16221 assertion as a test failure.
16222 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16224 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16225 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16226 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16227 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16228 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16229 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16230 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16231 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
16232 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16234 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16235 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16236 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16237 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16239 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16240 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16241 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16242 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16243 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
16245 o Minor features (user interface):
16246 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16247 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
16248 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
16249 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
16252 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16253 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16254 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16255 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16258 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16259 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16260 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16261 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16262 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16263 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16265 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16266 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16267 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16268 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16270 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
16271 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16272 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16273 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16274 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16276 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
16277 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16278 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16279 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16280 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16282 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16283 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
16284 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16285 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16286 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16288 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16289 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16290 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16292 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16293 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16294 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16296 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16297 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16298 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16301 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16302 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16303 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16305 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16306 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16307 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16309 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16310 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16311 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16312 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16313 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16314 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16315 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16316 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16318 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16319 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16320 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16321 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16323 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16324 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16325 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16326 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16327 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16328 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16329 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16330 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16331 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16332 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16334 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16335 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16336 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16337 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16339 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16340 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16341 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16342 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16345 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16346 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16347 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16348 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16350 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16351 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16354 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16355 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16356 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16357 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16359 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16360 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16362 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16363 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16364 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16365 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16366 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16368 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16369 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16370 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16372 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16373 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16374 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16376 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16377 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16378 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16379 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16380 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16381 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16383 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16384 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16385 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16387 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16388 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16389 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16390 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16391 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16392 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16393 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
16395 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16396 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16397 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16398 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16399 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16400 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16401 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16402 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16403 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16404 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16405 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16406 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16407 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16408 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16409 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16412 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16413 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16414 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
16415 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16416 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16417 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16419 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16420 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16421 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16423 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16424 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16425 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16428 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16429 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16430 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16431 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16432 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16433 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16435 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16436 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16437 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16438 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16439 patch from "cypherpunks".
16440 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16441 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16442 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16443 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16444 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
16445 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16446 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16447 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
16448 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16449 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16450 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16452 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16453 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16455 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16456 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16457 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16458 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16459 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16462 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16463 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16464 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16465 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16466 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16467 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16468 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16470 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16471 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
16472 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16473 19678. Patch by teor.
16475 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16476 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16477 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16478 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16479 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16481 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16482 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16484 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16485 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16487 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16488 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16489 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16490 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16493 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16494 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16495 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16496 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16497 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16498 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16499 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16500 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16501 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16502 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16503 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16504 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16505 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16506 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16507 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16508 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16509 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16510 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16512 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16513 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16514 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16515 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16518 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16519 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16521 o Removed features:
16522 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16523 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16524 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16525 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16526 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16527 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16528 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16531 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16532 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16533 command-line options to enable them.
16534 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16535 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16538 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16539 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16540 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16541 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16544 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16545 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16546 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16547 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16548 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16549 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16552 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16553 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16554 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16557 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16558 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16559 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16560 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16562 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16563 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16564 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16565 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16568 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16569 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16570 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16571 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16574 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16575 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16576 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16579 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16580 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16581 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16583 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16584 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16585 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16587 o Minor features (geoip):
16588 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16592 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16593 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16594 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16595 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16596 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16599 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16600 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16601 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16602 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16603 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16604 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16605 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16606 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16607 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16609 o Minor features (geoip):
16610 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16614 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16615 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16616 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16617 who select public relays as their bridges.
16619 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16620 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16621 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16622 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16623 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16624 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16626 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16627 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16628 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16629 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16630 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16633 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16634 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16635 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16637 o Minor features (geoip):
16638 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16642 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16643 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16644 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16645 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16646 encouraged to upgrade.
16648 o Directory authority changes:
16649 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16650 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16652 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16653 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16654 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16655 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16656 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16657 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16659 o Minor features (geoip):
16660 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16663 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16664 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16665 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16668 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16669 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16670 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16671 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16674 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16676 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16678 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16679 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16680 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16681 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16682 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16683 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16685 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16687 o New system requirements:
16688 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16689 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16690 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16692 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16693 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16694 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16695 longer runs with, these versions.
16696 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16697 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16698 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16699 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16700 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16702 o Directory authority changes:
16703 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16704 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16706 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16708 o Major features (directory system):
16709 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16710 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16711 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16712 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16713 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16714 gsathya, and karsten.
16715 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16716 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16717 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16718 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16719 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16721 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16722 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16723 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16724 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16725 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16726 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16727 mikeperry and teor.
16729 o Major features (security, Linux):
16730 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16731 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16732 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16733 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16734 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16736 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16737 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16738 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16739 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16740 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16741 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16742 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16744 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16745 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16748 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16749 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16750 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16752 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16753 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16754 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16755 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16756 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16758 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16759 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16760 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16761 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16762 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16763 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16764 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16765 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16766 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16767 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16769 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16770 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16771 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16772 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16773 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16774 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16775 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16778 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16779 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16780 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16781 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16782 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16784 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16785 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16786 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16787 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16788 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16789 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16790 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16791 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16792 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16794 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16795 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16796 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16797 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16798 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16800 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16801 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16802 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16804 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16805 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16806 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16807 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16809 o Minor features (accounting):
16810 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16811 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16812 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16813 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16815 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16816 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16817 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16818 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16819 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16820 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16821 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16824 o Minor features (build):
16825 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16826 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16827 Steven Chamberlain.
16828 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16829 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16830 patch from "cypherpunks".
16831 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16832 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16833 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16834 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16835 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16836 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16837 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16838 Patch from intrigeri.
16840 o Minor features (clients):
16841 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16842 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16843 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16845 o Minor features (controller):
16846 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16847 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16848 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16850 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16851 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16852 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16853 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16854 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16856 o Minor features (crypto):
16857 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16858 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16860 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16861 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16862 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16863 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16864 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16866 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16867 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16868 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16869 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16871 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16872 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16873 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16874 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16875 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16876 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16877 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16878 17864; patch by teor.
16880 o Minor features (geoip):
16881 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16884 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16885 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16886 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16887 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16888 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16890 o Minor features (IPv6):
16891 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16892 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16893 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16894 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16895 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16896 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16897 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16898 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16899 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16900 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16901 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16902 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16904 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16905 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16906 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16907 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16908 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16909 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16910 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16911 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16912 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16913 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16915 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16916 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16917 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16918 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16919 while fixing 18548.
16921 o Minor features (logging):
16922 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16923 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16924 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16925 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16928 o Minor features (portability):
16929 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16930 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16932 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16933 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16934 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16935 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16936 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16938 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16939 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16940 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16941 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16942 Resolves ticket 17951.
16944 o Minor features (replay cache):
16945 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16946 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16948 o Minor features (robustness):
16949 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16950 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16951 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16953 o Minor features (security, clock):
16954 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16955 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16956 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16957 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16959 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16960 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16961 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16962 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16963 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16964 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16966 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16967 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16968 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16969 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16971 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16972 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16973 Implements ticket 17026.
16974 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16975 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16976 Implements feature 17986.
16977 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16978 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16979 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16981 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16982 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16983 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16984 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16985 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16986 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16987 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16988 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16989 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16990 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16991 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16994 o Minor features (security, win32):
16995 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16996 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16999 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
17000 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
17001 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
17002 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
17003 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
17004 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
17005 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
17008 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
17009 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
17010 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
17011 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
17012 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17013 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
17014 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
17015 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
17016 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
17017 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
17018 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17019 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
17020 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
17021 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
17023 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
17024 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
17025 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
17026 from "unixninja92".
17028 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
17029 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
17030 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
17033 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
17034 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
17035 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
17037 o Minor bugfixes (build):
17038 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
17039 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
17040 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17041 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
17042 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
17044 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
17045 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
17047 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
17048 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
17049 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
17050 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
17051 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
17053 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
17054 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17055 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
17056 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
17057 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17058 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
17060 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
17061 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
17062 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
17063 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
17064 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17065 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
17066 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
17067 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17068 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
17069 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
17070 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
17072 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
17073 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
17076 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
17077 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
17078 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
17079 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
17080 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17082 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
17083 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
17084 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
17085 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
17086 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
17087 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17088 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
17089 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
17091 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
17093 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
17094 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
17095 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
17097 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
17098 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
17099 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
17101 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
17102 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
17103 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17105 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
17106 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
17107 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
17108 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
17110 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
17111 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
17112 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
17113 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
17114 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
17116 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
17117 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
17118 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
17120 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
17121 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
17122 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
17123 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
17124 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
17125 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17126 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
17127 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
17128 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
17130 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
17131 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
17132 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
17133 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
17136 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
17137 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
17138 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
17139 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
17140 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17142 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
17143 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
17144 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
17145 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
17146 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
17147 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
17148 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
17149 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
17151 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
17152 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
17153 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
17154 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
17155 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
17156 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
17157 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
17158 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
17159 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
17162 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
17163 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
17164 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
17165 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17167 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
17168 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17169 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17171 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17172 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17173 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17175 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17176 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
17177 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
17178 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
17179 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17180 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
17181 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
17182 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17183 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17184 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17185 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17186 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17187 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17188 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17189 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17190 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17191 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
17192 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
17193 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
17195 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17196 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17197 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17198 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17199 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17201 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17202 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17203 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17204 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17205 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17206 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17207 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17208 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17209 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17210 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17211 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17212 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17215 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17216 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17217 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17218 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17220 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17221 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17222 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17225 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17226 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17227 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17228 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17230 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17231 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17232 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17233 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17234 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17235 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17238 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17239 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17240 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17241 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17243 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17244 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17245 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17246 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17247 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17248 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
17249 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17250 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17251 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17253 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17254 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17255 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17256 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17257 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
17259 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17260 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17261 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17262 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17264 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17265 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17266 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17267 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17268 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17269 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17270 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17271 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17273 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17274 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17276 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17277 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17278 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17281 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17282 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17283 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
17284 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17286 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17287 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17288 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17289 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17290 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17291 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17292 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17293 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17294 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17295 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17296 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17297 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17298 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17299 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17300 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17301 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17303 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17304 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17305 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17306 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17307 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17308 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17309 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17311 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17312 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17313 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17314 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17316 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17317 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17318 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17320 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17321 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17322 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17323 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17325 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17326 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17327 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17328 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17329 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17330 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17331 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17332 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17333 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17334 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17335 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17336 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17337 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17338 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17339 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17340 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17341 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17342 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17343 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17344 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17345 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17346 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17350 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17351 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17352 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17353 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17354 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17355 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17356 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17357 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17358 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17359 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17360 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17361 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17363 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17364 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17366 o Removed features:
17367 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17368 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17369 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17370 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17371 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17372 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17373 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17374 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17377 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17378 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17379 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
17380 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17381 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17382 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17383 portion of ticket 16831.
17384 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17386 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17387 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17388 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17389 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17390 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17392 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17393 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17394 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17395 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17398 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17399 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17400 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17402 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17403 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17404 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17405 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17406 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17407 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17410 o Minor features (geoip):
17411 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17414 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17415 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17416 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17417 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17418 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17419 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17421 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17422 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17423 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17424 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17425 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17426 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17427 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17428 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17429 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17430 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17433 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17434 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17435 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17436 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17437 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17438 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17439 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17440 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17441 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17442 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17443 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17444 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17445 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17446 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17447 that would make him proud.
17449 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17451 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17452 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17453 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17454 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17455 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17456 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17457 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
17459 o New system requirements:
17460 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17461 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17463 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
17464 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
17465 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
17466 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
17467 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
17468 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
17469 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
17470 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
17471 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
17472 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
17473 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17474 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17475 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17477 o Major features (controller):
17478 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17479 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17481 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17482 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17483 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17484 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17485 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17486 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17487 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17489 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17490 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17491 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17492 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17493 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17494 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17495 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17496 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17497 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17498 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17499 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17500 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17501 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17502 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17503 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17504 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17505 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17506 part of ticket 12498.
17507 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17508 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17510 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17511 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17512 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17513 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17514 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17515 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17516 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17517 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17518 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17521 o Major features (ECC performance):
17522 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17523 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17525 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17526 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17527 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17528 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17529 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17530 Implements ticket 16467.
17531 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17532 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17533 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17534 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17536 o Major features (Hidden services):
17537 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17538 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17539 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17540 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17541 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17542 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17543 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17544 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17545 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17546 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17547 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17548 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17550 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17551 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17552 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17553 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17555 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17556 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17557 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17558 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17559 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17560 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17562 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17563 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17564 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17565 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17566 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17567 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17569 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17570 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17571 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17572 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17573 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17574 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17575 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17576 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17579 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17580 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17581 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17582 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17584 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17585 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17586 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17587 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17588 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17589 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17592 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17593 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17594 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17596 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17597 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17598 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17599 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17600 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17601 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17603 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17604 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17605 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17606 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17607 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17610 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17611 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17612 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17613 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17614 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17615 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17616 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17617 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17620 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17621 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17622 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17623 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17625 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17626 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17627 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17628 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17629 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17630 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17631 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17634 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17635 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17636 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17637 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17638 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17639 own. Implements feature 15482.
17640 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17641 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17643 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17644 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17645 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17646 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17647 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17649 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17650 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17651 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17652 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17653 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17655 o Minor features (compilation):
17656 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17657 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17658 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17659 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17660 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17662 o Minor features (control protocol):
17663 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17664 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17666 o Minor features (controller):
17667 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17668 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17669 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17670 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17671 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17672 Closes ticket 14845.
17673 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17674 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17675 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17677 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17678 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17679 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17680 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17681 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17682 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17684 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17685 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17686 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17687 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17688 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17689 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17690 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17692 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17693 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17694 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17695 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17697 o Minor features (geoip):
17698 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17701 o Minor features (hidden services):
17702 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17703 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17704 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17705 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17707 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17708 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17709 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17711 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17712 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17713 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17714 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17715 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17716 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17717 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17718 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17720 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17721 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17722 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17723 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17724 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17725 Closes ticket 15745.
17727 o Minor features (logging):
17728 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17729 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17732 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17733 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17734 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17735 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17737 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17738 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17739 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17740 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17741 Resolves ticket 15435.
17743 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17744 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17745 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17746 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17747 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17748 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17749 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17750 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17751 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17752 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17753 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17754 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17755 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17756 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17757 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17758 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17759 Related to ticket 16069.
17761 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17762 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17763 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17765 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17766 stderr, not stdout.
17767 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17768 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17769 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17772 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17773 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17774 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17775 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17776 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17778 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17779 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17780 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17781 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17783 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17784 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17785 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17786 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17787 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17788 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17789 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17790 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17792 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17793 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17794 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17795 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17797 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17798 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17799 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17801 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17802 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17803 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17805 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17806 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17807 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17808 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17810 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17811 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17812 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17813 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17814 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17815 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17817 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17818 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17819 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17821 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17822 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17824 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17825 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17826 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17827 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17828 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17829 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17830 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17831 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17833 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17834 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17835 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17836 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17838 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17839 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17840 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17842 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17843 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17844 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17847 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17848 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17849 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17850 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17851 recent enough Clang.
17853 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17854 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17855 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17856 unsuitable for public communications.
17858 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17859 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17860 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17861 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17863 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17864 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17865 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17866 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17867 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17869 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17870 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17872 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17873 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17874 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17875 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17876 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17878 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17879 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17880 from "cypherpunks".
17881 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17882 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17885 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17886 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17887 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17888 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17889 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17891 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17892 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17893 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17894 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17895 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17896 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17898 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17899 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17900 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17901 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17903 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17904 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17905 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17906 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17907 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17908 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17909 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17910 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17912 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17913 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17914 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17916 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17917 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17918 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17919 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17920 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17921 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17922 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17923 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17924 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17925 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17926 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17927 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17928 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17930 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17931 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17932 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17933 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17934 haven't supported that in ages.
17935 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17936 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17937 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17938 suite of other microdesc functions.
17939 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17940 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17941 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17942 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17943 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17944 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17945 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17946 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17947 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17948 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17949 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17950 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17951 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17952 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17953 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17954 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17956 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17957 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17961 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17962 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17963 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17965 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17966 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17967 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17968 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17969 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17970 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17971 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17972 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17973 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17974 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17976 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17978 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17979 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17980 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17981 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17982 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17983 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17984 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17985 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17986 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17987 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17988 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17989 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17990 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17992 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17993 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17996 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17997 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17998 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17999 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
18000 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
18001 Closes ticket 14922.
18002 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
18003 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
18004 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
18005 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
18006 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
18007 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
18008 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
18009 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
18010 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
18011 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
18012 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
18013 Closes ticket 13338.
18015 o Removed features:
18016 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
18017 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
18018 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
18019 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
18020 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
18021 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
18022 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
18023 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
18024 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
18025 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
18026 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
18027 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
18028 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
18029 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
18030 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
18033 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
18034 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
18035 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
18036 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
18037 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
18038 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
18039 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
18040 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
18041 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
18042 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
18043 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
18045 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
18046 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
18047 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
18048 Closes ticket 15817.
18049 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
18050 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
18051 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
18052 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
18053 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
18054 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
18055 network before we begin.
18056 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
18057 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
18058 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
18059 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
18060 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
18061 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
18063 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
18064 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
18066 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
18067 default as a part of "make check".
18068 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
18069 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
18070 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
18071 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
18072 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
18073 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
18074 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
18075 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
18076 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
18077 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
18078 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
18079 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
18080 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
18081 files. Closes ticket 15180.
18082 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
18083 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
18084 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
18085 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
18086 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
18087 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
18088 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
18089 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
18090 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
18091 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
18092 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
18093 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
18094 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
18095 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
18096 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
18097 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
18098 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
18100 - Set the severity correctly when testing
18101 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
18102 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
18103 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
18104 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
18106 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
18107 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
18108 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
18109 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
18110 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
18111 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
18113 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
18114 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
18115 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
18116 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
18117 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
18118 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
18119 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
18120 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
18123 o Major bugfixes (stability):
18124 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
18125 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
18126 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
18127 by "cypherpunks_backup".
18128 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
18129 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
18130 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
18133 o Minor features (geoip):
18134 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18135 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18137 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
18138 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
18139 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
18140 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
18141 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
18142 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
18144 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18145 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
18146 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
18147 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
18150 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
18151 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
18152 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
18153 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
18154 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
18156 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
18157 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
18158 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
18159 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
18160 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
18163 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
18164 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
18165 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
18166 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
18167 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
18168 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18169 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18171 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18172 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18173 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18174 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18176 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18177 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18178 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18179 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18180 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18181 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18184 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18185 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18186 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18189 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18190 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18191 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18192 authorities should upgrade.
18194 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18195 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18196 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18197 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18200 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18201 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18202 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18205 o Minor features (geoip):
18206 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18207 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18211 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18212 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18213 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18214 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18215 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18217 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18218 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18220 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18221 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18222 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18223 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18224 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18225 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18226 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18228 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18229 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18230 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18231 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18232 Resolves ticket 15515.
18233 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18234 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18235 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18239 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18240 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18241 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18242 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18243 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18245 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18246 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18248 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18249 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18250 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18251 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18252 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18253 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18254 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18256 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18257 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18258 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18259 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18260 Resolves ticket 15515.
18263 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18264 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18265 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18266 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18267 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18269 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18270 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18272 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18273 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18274 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18275 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18276 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18277 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18278 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18280 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18281 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18282 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18283 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18284 Resolves ticket 15515.
18287 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18288 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18290 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18291 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18292 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18293 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18294 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18295 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18296 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18297 bugs should be addressed.
18299 o New compiler and system requirements:
18300 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18301 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18302 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18303 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18305 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18306 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18307 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18308 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18309 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18310 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18311 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18312 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18313 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18315 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
18316 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18317 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18318 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18319 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18320 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18321 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18323 o Directory authority changes:
18324 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18325 closes ticket 14487.
18326 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18327 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18328 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18330 o Major features (bridges):
18331 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18332 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18333 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18336 o Major features (changed defaults):
18337 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18338 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18339 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18340 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18341 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18342 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18344 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18345 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18346 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18347 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18350 o Major features (directory system):
18351 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18352 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18353 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18354 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18355 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18356 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18357 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18358 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18359 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18360 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18361 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18362 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18363 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18364 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18365 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18366 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18368 o Major features (guards):
18369 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18370 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18371 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18372 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18373 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18375 o Major features (hidden services):
18376 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18377 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18378 Closes ticket 13667.
18379 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18380 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18381 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18382 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18383 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18384 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18385 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18386 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18387 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18388 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18389 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18391 o Major features (performance):
18392 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18393 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18394 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18395 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18396 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18397 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18398 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18399 Implements ticket 9682.
18401 o Major features (relay):
18402 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18403 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18404 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18405 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18406 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18407 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18408 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18409 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18411 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18412 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18413 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18414 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18415 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18416 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18417 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18420 o Major features (sample torrc):
18421 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18422 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18423 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18424 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18425 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18426 generally useful "sample torrc".
18428 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18429 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18430 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18431 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18432 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18433 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18435 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18436 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18437 Implements ticket 11485.
18439 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18440 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18441 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18442 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18443 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18444 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18447 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18448 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18449 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18452 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18453 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18454 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18456 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18457 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18458 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18459 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18460 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18462 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18463 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18464 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18465 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18467 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18468 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18469 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18472 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18473 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18474 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18475 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18476 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18477 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18479 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18480 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18481 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18482 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18484 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18485 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18486 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18487 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18488 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18489 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18490 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18492 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18493 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18494 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18495 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18496 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18497 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18499 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18500 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18501 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18502 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18503 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18504 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18505 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18506 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18508 o Minor features (build):
18509 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18510 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18511 Resolves ticket 13037.
18513 o Minor features (client):
18514 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18515 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18516 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18517 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18519 o Minor features (client):
18520 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18521 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18522 Resolves ticket 13315.
18524 o Minor features (controller):
18525 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18526 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18528 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18529 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18531 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18532 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18533 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18534 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18535 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18536 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18537 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18538 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18539 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18541 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18542 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18543 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18544 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18545 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18546 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18547 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18548 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18549 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18550 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18552 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18553 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18554 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18555 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18556 argument more than once.
18557 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18558 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18559 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18560 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18561 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18562 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18564 o Minor features (geoip):
18565 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18566 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18569 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18570 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18571 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18572 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18574 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18575 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18576 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18577 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18578 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18580 o Minor features (hidden service):
18581 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18582 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18583 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18584 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18585 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18586 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18587 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18588 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18589 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18590 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18591 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18592 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18593 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18594 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18596 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18597 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18598 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18600 o Minor features (interface):
18601 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18602 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18603 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18605 o Minor features (logging):
18606 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18607 Resolves ticket 6852.
18608 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18609 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18610 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18612 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18613 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18614 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18615 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18616 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18617 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18618 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18619 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18620 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18621 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18622 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18623 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18626 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18627 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18628 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18629 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18631 o Minor features (relay):
18632 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18633 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18634 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18636 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18637 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18638 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18639 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18640 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18641 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18642 document. Implements feature 10427.
18644 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18645 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18646 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18647 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18649 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18650 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18651 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18652 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18653 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18654 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18656 o Minor features (stability):
18657 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18658 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18661 o Minor features (systemd):
18662 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18663 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18664 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18665 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18666 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18667 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18669 o Minor features (testing networks):
18670 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18671 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18672 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18673 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18674 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18676 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18677 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18678 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18679 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18680 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18681 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18683 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18684 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18685 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18686 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18687 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18689 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18690 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18691 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18692 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18693 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18695 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18696 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18697 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18698 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18699 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18702 o Minor features (validation):
18703 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18704 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18705 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18706 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18707 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18708 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18709 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18710 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18711 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18712 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18713 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18716 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18717 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18718 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18719 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18721 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18722 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18723 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18724 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18726 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18727 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18728 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18730 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18731 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18732 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18734 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18735 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18736 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18737 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18738 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18739 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18740 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18742 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18743 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18744 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18745 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18746 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18747 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18748 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18749 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18750 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18752 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18753 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18754 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18755 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18756 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18757 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18758 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18759 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18760 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18762 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18763 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18764 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18765 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18766 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18767 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18768 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18769 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18771 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18772 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18773 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18776 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18777 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18778 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18779 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18780 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18782 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18783 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18784 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18785 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18786 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18787 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18788 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18789 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18791 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18792 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18793 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18794 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18795 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18797 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18798 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18799 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18800 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18801 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18803 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18804 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18805 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18807 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18808 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18809 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18810 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18811 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18813 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18814 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18815 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18817 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18818 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18820 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18821 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18822 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18823 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18825 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18826 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18828 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18829 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18830 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18831 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18832 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18833 Addresses ticket 14188.
18834 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18835 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18836 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18837 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18838 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18839 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18840 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18841 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18842 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18843 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18844 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18847 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18848 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18849 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18850 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18851 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18852 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18854 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18855 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18856 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18857 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18858 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18860 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18861 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18862 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18863 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18864 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18865 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18866 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18867 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18868 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18869 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18870 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18871 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18872 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18873 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18874 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18875 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18877 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18878 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18879 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18880 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18881 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18882 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18883 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18884 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18887 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18888 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18889 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18890 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18891 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18892 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18893 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18894 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18895 state, and key files.
18896 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18897 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18900 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18901 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18902 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18903 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18904 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18905 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18906 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18907 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18908 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18909 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18910 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18911 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18912 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18913 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18914 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18915 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18916 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18917 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18920 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18921 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18922 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18923 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18924 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18925 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18926 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18927 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18928 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18929 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18931 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18932 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18933 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18934 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18935 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18936 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18938 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18939 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18941 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18942 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18943 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18944 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18945 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18947 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18948 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18949 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18950 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18951 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18952 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18954 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18955 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18956 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18958 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18959 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18960 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18962 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18963 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18964 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18965 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18966 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18968 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18969 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18970 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18973 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18974 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18975 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18976 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18977 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18980 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18981 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18982 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18983 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18986 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18987 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18988 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18991 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18992 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18993 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18995 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18996 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18997 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18998 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18999 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
19002 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
19003 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
19004 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
19005 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
19006 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
19007 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
19009 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
19010 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
19011 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
19012 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
19013 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
19014 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
19016 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
19017 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
19018 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
19019 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
19020 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19021 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
19022 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
19023 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
19024 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
19025 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
19026 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
19027 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
19028 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
19029 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
19030 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
19031 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
19032 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
19033 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
19034 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
19035 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19036 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
19037 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
19038 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
19039 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
19040 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
19041 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
19042 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
19043 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19044 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
19045 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
19046 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
19047 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
19049 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
19050 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
19051 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
19052 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
19053 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19055 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19056 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
19057 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
19058 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
19059 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
19060 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
19061 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
19062 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
19063 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19065 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
19066 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
19067 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
19069 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
19070 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
19071 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
19074 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
19075 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
19076 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
19077 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
19080 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
19081 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
19082 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19084 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19085 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
19086 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
19088 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
19089 Resolves ticket 12205.
19090 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
19091 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
19092 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
19093 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
19095 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
19096 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
19097 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
19099 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
19100 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
19102 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
19103 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
19104 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
19105 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
19106 or_options_t structure.
19107 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
19108 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
19109 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
19110 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
19111 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
19112 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
19113 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
19114 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
19116 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
19117 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
19119 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
19121 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
19122 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
19123 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
19124 with a function instead.
19125 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
19126 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
19127 Closes ticket 13172.
19128 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
19129 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
19130 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
19131 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
19132 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
19133 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
19134 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
19135 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
19136 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
19137 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
19138 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
19139 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
19143 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
19144 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
19145 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
19146 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
19148 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
19149 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
19150 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
19151 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19152 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
19153 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
19154 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
19155 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
19156 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
19157 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
19158 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
19159 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
19160 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
19161 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
19162 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
19163 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
19164 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
19165 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
19167 o Distribution (systemd):
19168 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
19169 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
19170 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
19171 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
19172 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19174 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
19175 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
19177 o Downgraded warnings:
19178 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19179 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19182 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19183 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19184 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19187 o Removed features (directory authorities):
19188 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
19189 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
19190 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
19191 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
19192 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
19193 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
19194 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
19195 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
19196 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
19198 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
19199 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
19200 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19201 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19204 o Removed features:
19205 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19206 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19207 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19208 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19209 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19211 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19212 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19213 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19214 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19215 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19216 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19217 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19218 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19219 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19221 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19222 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19224 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19225 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19226 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19227 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19228 anymore, and ignore it.
19230 o Removed platform support:
19231 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19232 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19233 Closes ticket 11446.
19235 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19236 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19237 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19239 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19241 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19242 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19243 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19246 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19247 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19248 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19249 (existing behavior).
19250 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19251 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19252 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19253 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19254 Closes ticket 14107.
19255 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19256 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19257 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19258 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19260 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19261 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19262 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19263 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19264 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19265 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19267 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19269 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19270 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19271 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19272 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19273 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19274 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19275 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19276 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19277 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19278 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19279 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19280 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19282 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19283 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19284 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19286 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19287 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19289 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19290 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19291 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19293 o Directory authority changes:
19294 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19295 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19296 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19297 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19298 closes ticket 14487.
19300 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19301 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19302 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19305 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19306 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19307 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19308 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19309 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19310 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19311 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19312 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19314 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19315 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19316 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19317 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19319 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19320 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19321 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19322 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19324 o Minor features (controller):
19325 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19326 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19327 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19329 o Minor features (geoip):
19330 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19331 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19334 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19335 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19336 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19337 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19338 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19339 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19341 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19342 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19343 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19344 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19346 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19347 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19348 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19349 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19350 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19351 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19352 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19353 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19355 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19356 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19357 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19359 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19360 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19361 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19362 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19363 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19367 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19368 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19369 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19372 o Directory authority changes:
19373 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19374 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19375 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19376 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19377 closes ticket 14487.
19379 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19380 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19381 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19382 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19384 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19385 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19386 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19387 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19388 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19389 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19390 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19391 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19393 o Minor features (geoip):
19394 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19395 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19398 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19399 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19401 It adds several new security features, including improved
19402 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19403 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19404 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19405 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19406 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19407 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19408 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19409 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19410 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19411 and features mentioned below.
19413 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19414 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19416 o Major features (security):
19417 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19418 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19419 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19420 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19421 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19422 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19423 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19424 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19425 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19426 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19428 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19429 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19430 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19431 streams attached to each circuit.
19433 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19434 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19435 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19436 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19437 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19438 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19439 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19440 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19441 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19442 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19443 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19444 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19445 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19447 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19448 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19449 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19450 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19452 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
19453 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19454 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19455 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19456 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19457 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19459 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19460 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19461 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19462 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19463 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19464 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19465 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19466 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19469 o Major features (controller):
19470 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19471 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19472 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19473 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19474 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19475 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19477 o Major features (relay performance):
19478 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19479 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19480 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19481 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19482 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19483 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19484 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19485 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19486 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19487 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19489 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19490 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19491 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19492 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19493 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19494 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19495 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19496 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19497 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19498 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19500 o Major features (testing networks):
19501 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19502 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19503 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19504 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19505 Implements ticket 8530.
19507 o Major features (other):
19508 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19509 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19510 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19511 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19512 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19513 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19515 o Deprecated versions:
19516 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19517 attention for some while.
19519 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19520 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19521 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19523 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19524 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19525 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19526 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19527 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19528 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19529 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19530 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19531 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19532 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19533 router's identity is not forgeable.
19535 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19536 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19537 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19538 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19540 o Major bugfixes (client):
19541 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19542 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19543 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19544 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19545 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19546 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19547 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19548 to build circuits".
19550 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19551 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19552 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19553 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19556 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19557 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19558 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19559 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19560 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19561 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19562 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19564 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19565 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19566 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19567 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19568 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19569 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19570 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19571 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19572 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19573 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19574 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19575 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19576 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19577 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19578 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19579 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19580 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19582 o Minor features (security):
19583 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19584 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19585 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19586 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19588 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19589 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19590 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19591 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19592 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19593 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19594 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19596 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19597 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19598 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19599 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19600 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19601 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19602 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19604 o Minor features (bridge client):
19605 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19606 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19607 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19609 o Minor features (bridge):
19610 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19611 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19613 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19614 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19615 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19616 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19617 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19618 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19619 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19620 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19621 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19622 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19623 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19624 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19625 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19626 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19627 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19629 o Minor features (build):
19630 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19631 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19632 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19633 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19634 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19635 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19636 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19637 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19638 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19639 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19640 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19641 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19642 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19643 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19644 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19647 o Minor features (client):
19648 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19649 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19650 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19651 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19653 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19654 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19655 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19656 Implements ticket 10060.
19657 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19658 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19659 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19661 o Minor features (config options):
19662 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19663 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19664 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19665 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19666 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19667 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19668 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19669 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19670 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19671 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19672 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19673 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19674 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19675 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19676 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19677 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19678 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19681 o Minor features (controller):
19682 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19683 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19685 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19686 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19687 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19688 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19689 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19690 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19691 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19692 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19694 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19695 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19696 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19698 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19699 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19700 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19701 help diagnose bug 7164.
19702 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19703 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19704 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19705 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19706 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19708 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19709 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19710 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19711 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19712 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19713 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19714 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19715 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19716 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19717 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19718 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19719 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19720 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19721 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19722 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19724 o Minor features (geoip):
19725 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19728 o Minor features (interface):
19729 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19730 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19731 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19732 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19734 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19735 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19736 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19738 o Minor features (log messages):
19739 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19740 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19741 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19742 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19743 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19744 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19745 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19746 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19748 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19749 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19750 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19751 Resolves ticket 5286.
19752 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19753 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19754 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19755 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19756 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19757 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19759 o Minor features (performance):
19760 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19761 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19762 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19763 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19764 Closes ticket 8109.
19766 o Minor features (relay):
19767 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19768 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19769 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19771 o Minor features (testing):
19772 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19773 the unit test scripts.
19774 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19775 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19776 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19777 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19779 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19780 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19781 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19782 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19783 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19784 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19785 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19786 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19787 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19788 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19790 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19791 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19792 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19793 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19795 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19796 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19797 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19798 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19799 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19800 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19801 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19802 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19803 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19804 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19806 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19807 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19808 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19810 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19811 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19812 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19813 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19814 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19816 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19817 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19818 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19819 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19820 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19821 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19822 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19823 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19824 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19825 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19826 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19827 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19829 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19830 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19831 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19832 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19833 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19834 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19835 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19836 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19837 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19838 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19839 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19840 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19842 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19843 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19844 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19845 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19847 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19848 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19849 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19850 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19853 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19854 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19855 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19856 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19857 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19858 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19861 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19862 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19863 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19864 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19865 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19867 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19868 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19869 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19872 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19873 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19874 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19875 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19876 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19877 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19878 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19879 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19880 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19881 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19883 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19884 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19885 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19886 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19887 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19889 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19890 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19892 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19893 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19894 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19895 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19896 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19897 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19898 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19899 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19900 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19901 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19902 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19903 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19904 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19906 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19907 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19908 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19909 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19910 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19911 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19912 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19913 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19914 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19915 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19916 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19917 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19918 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19920 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19921 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19922 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19924 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19925 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19926 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19927 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19928 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19929 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19931 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19932 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19933 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19934 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19935 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19936 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19937 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19938 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19939 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19940 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19942 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19943 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19944 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19946 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19947 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19948 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19949 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19950 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19952 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19953 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19954 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19955 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19956 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19957 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19958 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19959 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19960 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19961 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19962 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19963 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19964 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19965 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19967 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19968 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19969 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19970 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19971 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19972 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19973 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19974 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19975 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19977 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19978 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19979 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19980 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19981 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19982 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19983 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19985 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19986 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19988 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19989 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19990 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19991 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19993 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19994 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19995 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19996 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19997 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19998 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19999 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
20000 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
20001 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
20002 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
20003 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
20004 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
20005 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
20006 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
20007 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
20008 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
20009 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
20011 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
20012 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
20013 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
20014 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
20015 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
20016 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
20017 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
20018 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
20021 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
20022 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
20023 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
20024 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
20025 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
20026 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
20027 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
20028 Reported by "mr-4".
20029 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
20030 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
20031 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
20032 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20034 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
20035 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
20036 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
20037 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
20038 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
20039 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
20040 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
20041 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
20042 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
20043 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
20044 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
20045 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
20047 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
20048 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
20049 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
20051 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
20052 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
20053 early. Fixes bug 10081.
20055 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
20056 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
20057 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
20058 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
20061 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
20062 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
20063 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
20064 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
20067 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
20068 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
20069 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
20070 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
20072 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
20073 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
20074 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
20076 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
20077 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
20078 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
20079 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
20080 versions. Found by "skruffy".
20081 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
20082 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
20083 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
20086 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
20087 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
20088 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
20089 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
20090 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
20091 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
20092 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
20093 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
20094 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
20095 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
20096 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
20098 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
20099 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
20100 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
20101 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
20102 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
20104 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
20105 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
20106 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
20107 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
20110 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
20111 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
20112 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
20113 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
20114 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
20115 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
20116 should never have affected anyone in practice.
20118 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20119 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
20120 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
20121 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
20122 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
20123 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
20124 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
20125 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
20126 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
20127 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
20128 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
20129 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
20130 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
20131 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
20132 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
20133 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
20134 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20135 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
20136 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
20137 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
20138 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
20139 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
20140 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
20141 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
20143 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
20144 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
20145 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
20146 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
20147 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
20148 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
20149 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
20150 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
20151 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
20153 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
20154 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
20157 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
20158 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
20160 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
20162 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
20163 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
20164 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
20165 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
20166 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
20167 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20169 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20170 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20172 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20173 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20174 caches don't get confused.
20175 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
20176 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20177 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
20178 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
20179 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
20180 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
20181 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
20182 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
20183 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
20184 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
20185 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
20186 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
20187 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
20188 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
20189 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20190 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
20191 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
20192 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20195 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20196 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20197 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20198 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20199 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20201 o Removed code and features:
20202 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20203 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20204 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20205 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20206 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20207 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20209 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20210 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20211 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20212 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20213 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20214 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20215 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20216 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
20217 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20218 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20219 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20220 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20222 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20223 Resolves ticket 11070.
20224 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20225 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20226 the rest of bug 10841.
20227 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20228 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20229 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20230 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20232 o Test infrastructure:
20233 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20234 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20235 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20236 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20237 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20238 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20239 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20240 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20241 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20242 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20244 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20245 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20246 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20247 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20248 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20249 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20250 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20251 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20252 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20253 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20254 invoking the other functions it calls.
20257 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20258 Patch from Dana Koch.
20259 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20260 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20261 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20262 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20264 o Distribution (systemd):
20265 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20266 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20267 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20268 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20269 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20270 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20271 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20272 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20273 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20274 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20275 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20276 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20277 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20281 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20282 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20283 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20284 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20285 (which does affect Tor).
20287 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20288 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20289 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20290 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20292 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20293 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20294 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20295 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20298 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20299 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20300 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20301 the directory authorities.
20304 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20305 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20306 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20307 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20308 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20309 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20310 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20311 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20312 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20313 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20314 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20315 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20317 o Directory authority changes:
20318 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20320 o Minor features (geoip):
20321 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20325 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20326 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20327 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20328 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20331 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20332 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20333 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20334 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20335 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20336 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20337 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20338 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20339 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20340 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20343 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20344 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20345 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20346 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20347 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20348 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20349 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20350 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20354 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20355 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20356 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20357 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20358 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20359 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20360 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20361 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20362 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20363 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20364 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20365 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20366 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20369 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20373 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20374 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20375 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20376 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20377 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20378 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20379 of RAM, and several others.
20381 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20382 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20383 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20384 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20385 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20387 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20388 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20389 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20390 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20393 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20394 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20395 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20396 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20397 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20398 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20399 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20400 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20401 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20402 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20403 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20404 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20405 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20406 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20407 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20408 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20409 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20410 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20411 Resolves ticket 11438.
20413 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20414 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20415 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20416 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20417 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20418 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20420 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20421 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20422 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20424 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20425 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20426 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20428 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20429 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20430 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20431 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20433 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20434 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20435 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20437 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20438 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20439 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20442 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20443 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20444 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20445 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20448 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20449 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20450 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20451 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20453 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20454 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20455 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20456 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20458 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20459 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20460 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20464 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20465 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20466 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20467 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20469 o Major features (client security):
20470 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20471 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20472 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20473 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20474 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20475 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20478 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20479 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20480 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20481 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20483 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20484 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20485 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20486 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20487 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20490 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20491 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20493 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20494 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20495 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20496 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20497 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20498 GeoLite2 Country database.
20501 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20502 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20503 bugfix on every released Tor.
20504 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20505 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20506 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20507 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20508 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20509 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20510 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20511 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20512 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20513 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20514 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20515 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20516 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20517 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20518 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20520 o Documentation fixes:
20521 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20522 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20525 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20526 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20527 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20528 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20529 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20530 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20531 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20533 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20534 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20537 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20538 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20539 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20540 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20541 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20542 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20543 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20544 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20546 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20547 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20548 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20549 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20550 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20551 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20554 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20555 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20556 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20557 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20558 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20561 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20562 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20563 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20564 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20565 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20566 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20567 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20568 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20570 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20571 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20572 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20573 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20574 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20575 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20576 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20577 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20578 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20579 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20580 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20581 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20582 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20583 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20584 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20585 security, and privacy fixes.
20587 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20588 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20589 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20590 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20591 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20592 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20593 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20594 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20595 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20596 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20597 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20599 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20600 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20601 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20603 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20605 o Major features (better link encryption):
20606 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20607 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20608 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20609 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20610 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20611 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20614 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20615 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20616 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20617 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20619 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20621 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20622 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20623 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20624 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20625 them to solve bug 6033.)
20627 o Major features (relay performance):
20628 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20629 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20630 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20631 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20632 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20633 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20634 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20635 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20636 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20637 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20638 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20639 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20640 Implements ticket 9574.
20642 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20643 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20644 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20645 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20646 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20647 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20648 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20649 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20650 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20651 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20652 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20653 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20654 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20655 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20656 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20657 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20659 o Major features (use of guards):
20660 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20661 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20662 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20663 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20664 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20665 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20666 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20667 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20668 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20669 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20670 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20671 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20672 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20673 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20675 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20676 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20677 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20678 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20680 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20681 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20684 o Major features (geoip database):
20685 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20686 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20687 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20688 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20689 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20690 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20692 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20694 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20696 o Major features (IPv6):
20697 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20698 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20699 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20700 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20701 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20702 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20703 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20704 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20705 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20706 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20707 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20708 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20709 revised in proposal 208.
20710 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20711 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20712 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20714 o Major features (directory authorities):
20715 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20716 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20718 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20719 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20720 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20721 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20722 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20723 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20724 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20725 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20726 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20727 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20728 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20730 o Major features (build and portability):
20731 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20732 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20733 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20734 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20735 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20736 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20737 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20738 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20739 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20740 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20741 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20742 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20744 o Security features:
20745 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20746 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20747 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20748 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20749 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20750 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20751 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20752 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20753 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20756 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20757 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20758 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20759 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20760 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20761 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20762 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20763 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20764 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20765 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20766 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20767 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20768 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20769 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20770 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20771 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20772 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20773 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20775 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20776 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20777 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20778 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20780 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20781 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20782 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20784 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20785 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20786 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20787 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20788 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20789 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20790 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20791 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20792 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20794 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20795 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20797 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20798 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20799 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20800 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20801 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20802 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20803 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20804 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20805 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20806 last time we raised it).
20807 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20808 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20809 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20811 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20812 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20813 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20814 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20815 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20816 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20817 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20818 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20819 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20820 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20821 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20822 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20823 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20825 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20826 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20827 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20828 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20829 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20830 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20831 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20832 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20833 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20834 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20835 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20836 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20837 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20839 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20840 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20841 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20842 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20843 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20844 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20845 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20846 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20847 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20849 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20850 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20851 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20852 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20853 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20854 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20855 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20856 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20857 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20858 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20859 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20860 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20861 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20862 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20863 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20864 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20865 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20868 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20869 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20870 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20871 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20873 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20874 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20875 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20876 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20878 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20879 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20880 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20881 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20882 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20883 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20886 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20887 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20888 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20889 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20890 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20891 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20892 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20894 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20895 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20896 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20897 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20899 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20900 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20901 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20902 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20903 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20904 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20905 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20906 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20908 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20909 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20910 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20912 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20913 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20914 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20916 o Internal abstraction features:
20917 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20918 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20919 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20920 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20921 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20922 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20923 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20924 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20925 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20926 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20927 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20928 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20929 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20930 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20931 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20932 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20933 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20935 o New build requirements:
20936 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20937 strongly recommended.
20938 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20939 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20940 from a source distribution.)
20942 o Minor features (protocol):
20943 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20944 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20946 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20947 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20948 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20949 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20950 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20951 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20952 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20953 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20954 closes ticket 7199.
20955 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20956 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20958 o Minor features (security):
20959 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20960 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20961 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20962 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20963 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20964 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20965 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20966 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20967 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20969 o Minor features (control protocol):
20970 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20972 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20973 Implements ticket 4971.
20974 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20975 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20976 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20977 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20978 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20980 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20981 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20983 o Minor features (path selection):
20984 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20985 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20986 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20987 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20988 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20989 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20990 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20991 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20992 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20993 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20994 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20995 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20996 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20997 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20999 o Minor features (hidden services):
21000 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
21001 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
21002 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
21003 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
21004 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
21005 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
21006 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
21007 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
21008 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
21009 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
21010 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
21011 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
21012 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
21014 o Minor features (clients):
21015 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
21016 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
21017 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
21018 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
21019 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
21020 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
21021 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
21022 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
21023 the ORPort and the DirPort.
21025 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
21026 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
21027 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
21028 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
21029 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
21030 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
21031 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
21032 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
21033 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
21034 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
21035 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
21036 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
21037 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
21038 Implements part of proposal 222.
21040 o Minor features (bridges):
21041 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
21042 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
21043 bugs 1913 and 1992.
21044 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
21045 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
21046 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
21047 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
21048 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
21049 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
21050 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
21051 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
21052 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
21053 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
21054 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
21056 o Minor features (relays):
21057 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
21058 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
21060 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
21061 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
21062 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
21063 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
21064 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
21065 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
21066 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
21067 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
21068 connect to the wrong addresses.
21069 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
21070 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
21071 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
21072 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
21075 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
21076 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
21077 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
21078 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
21079 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
21080 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
21082 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21083 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
21084 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
21085 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
21087 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
21088 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
21089 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
21090 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
21091 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
21092 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
21094 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
21095 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
21096 Implements ticket 8151.
21097 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
21098 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
21099 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
21100 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
21102 o Minor features (path bias detection):
21103 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
21104 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
21105 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
21106 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
21107 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
21108 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
21109 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
21110 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
21111 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
21112 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
21113 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
21114 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
21115 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
21116 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
21117 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
21118 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
21119 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
21120 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
21121 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
21122 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
21123 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
21124 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
21125 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
21126 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
21127 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
21128 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
21129 detection capability loss.
21131 o Minor features (build):
21132 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
21133 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
21134 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
21136 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
21137 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
21138 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21140 o Build improvements (autotools):
21141 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
21142 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
21143 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
21145 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
21146 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
21147 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
21148 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
21150 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
21151 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
21152 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
21153 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
21154 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
21155 than to perform erroneously.
21156 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
21158 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
21159 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
21160 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
21162 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
21163 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
21164 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
21165 hard-to-track-down errors.
21166 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
21167 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
21168 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21169 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21170 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21171 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21172 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21173 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21174 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
21175 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
21176 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
21178 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
21179 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
21180 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
21181 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
21182 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
21183 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
21184 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
21185 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
21186 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
21187 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
21189 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
21190 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
21191 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
21192 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
21193 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
21194 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
21195 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
21196 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
21197 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
21198 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
21199 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21200 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21201 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21203 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21204 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21205 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21206 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21207 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21208 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21209 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21210 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21211 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21213 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
21214 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21215 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21216 part of ticket 6736.
21217 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21218 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21219 Resolves ticket 6758.
21220 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21221 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21222 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21223 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21224 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21225 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21226 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21228 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21229 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21230 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21231 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21233 o Minor features (testing):
21234 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
21235 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
21237 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21238 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21239 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21242 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21243 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21245 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
21246 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
21247 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
21248 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21249 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21250 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21251 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21252 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21253 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21254 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
21255 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
21256 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
21257 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
21258 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
21259 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
21260 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
21261 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
21263 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
21264 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21265 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21266 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21267 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21268 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21269 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21270 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21271 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21272 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21273 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
21274 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
21275 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21276 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21277 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21278 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21279 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21280 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21281 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21282 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21285 o Minor fixes (config options):
21286 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21287 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21288 or we just won't work.)
21289 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21290 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21291 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21292 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21293 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21294 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21295 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21296 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21297 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21298 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21299 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21300 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21301 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21302 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21303 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21304 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21305 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21306 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21307 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21309 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
21310 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21311 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21313 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21314 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21315 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21316 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21318 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
21319 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21320 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21321 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21322 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21323 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21324 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21325 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21326 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21327 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21328 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21329 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21330 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21331 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21332 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21333 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21336 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
21337 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21338 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21339 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21340 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21341 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21342 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21343 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21344 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21345 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21346 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21347 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21348 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21349 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21350 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21351 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21352 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21354 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21355 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21356 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21357 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21358 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21359 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21360 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21361 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21363 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21364 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21365 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21366 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21368 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
21369 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21370 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21371 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21372 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21374 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21375 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21376 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21377 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21378 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21379 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21381 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21382 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21383 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21384 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21385 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21386 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21387 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21388 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21389 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21391 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21392 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21393 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21394 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21395 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21396 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21397 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21398 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21399 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21400 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21401 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21402 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21404 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21405 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21406 this is CID 718634.
21407 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21408 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21409 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21410 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21412 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21413 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21415 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21416 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21417 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21418 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21419 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21420 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21421 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21422 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21423 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21424 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21425 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21426 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21427 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21428 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21429 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21430 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21431 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21432 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21434 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
21435 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21436 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21437 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21438 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21439 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21440 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21441 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21442 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21443 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21444 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21445 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21446 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21449 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
21450 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21451 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21452 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21453 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21455 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21456 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21457 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21458 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21459 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21460 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21461 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21462 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21463 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21466 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21467 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
21468 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21469 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21471 o Documentation fixes:
21472 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21473 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21474 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21475 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21476 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21477 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21478 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21480 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21481 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21482 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21483 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21484 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21485 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21486 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21487 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21488 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21489 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21490 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21491 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21492 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21494 o Removed features:
21495 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21496 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21497 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21499 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21500 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21501 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21502 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21503 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21504 compatibility code.
21507 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21508 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21510 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21511 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21513 o Code simplification:
21514 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21515 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21516 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21517 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21519 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21520 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21522 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21523 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21524 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21525 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21526 present the same extensions.)
21527 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21529 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21530 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21531 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21532 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21534 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21535 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21536 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21537 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21540 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21542 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21543 and the different handshakes it supports.
21544 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21545 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21546 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21547 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21549 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21550 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21551 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21552 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21553 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21554 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21555 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21556 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21557 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21558 Implements ticket 5529.
21559 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21560 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21561 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21564 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21565 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21566 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21567 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21568 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21569 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21570 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21571 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21572 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21573 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21574 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21575 any encoding is overkill.
21576 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21577 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21578 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21579 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21580 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21581 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21582 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21583 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21584 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21587 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21588 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21589 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21590 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21591 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21592 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21593 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21594 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21596 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21597 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21598 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21599 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21600 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21601 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21602 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21603 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21604 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21605 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21606 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21608 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21609 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21610 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21611 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21612 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21613 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21614 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21615 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21616 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21617 describes microdescriptors.
21619 o Major features (build hardening):
21620 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21622 o Major features (relay scaling):
21623 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21624 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21625 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21626 much faster than other AES implementations.
21627 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21628 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21629 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21630 Resolves ticket 4526.
21631 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21632 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21634 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21635 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21636 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21637 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21639 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21640 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21642 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21643 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21644 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21645 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21646 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21647 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21648 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21649 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21650 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21651 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21652 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21653 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21654 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21655 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21656 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21657 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21658 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21659 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21660 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21662 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21663 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21664 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21665 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21666 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21668 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21669 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21670 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21671 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21672 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21673 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21674 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21675 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21676 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21677 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21678 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21679 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21681 o Major features (hidden services):
21682 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21683 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21684 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21686 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21687 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21688 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21689 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21690 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21691 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21693 o Major features (IPv6):
21694 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21695 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21696 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21697 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21698 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21700 o Major features (directory authorities):
21701 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21702 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21703 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21704 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21705 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21706 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21707 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21708 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21709 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21710 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21712 o Major features (performance):
21713 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21714 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21715 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21716 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21717 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21718 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21719 side of Proposal 174.
21720 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21721 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21722 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21723 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21724 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21725 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21726 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21727 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21728 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21729 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21730 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21731 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21733 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21734 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21735 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21736 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21737 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21740 o Major features (relays):
21741 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21742 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21743 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21744 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21745 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21746 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21747 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21749 o Major features (stream isolation):
21750 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21751 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21752 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21753 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21754 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21755 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21756 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21757 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21758 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21759 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21760 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21761 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21762 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21763 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21765 o Major features (bufferevents):
21766 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21767 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21768 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21769 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21770 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21771 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21772 zero-copy transports where available.
21773 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21774 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21775 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21776 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21777 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21778 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21780 o Major features (path selection):
21781 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21782 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21783 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21784 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21787 o Major features (port forwarding):
21788 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21789 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21790 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21791 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21792 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21793 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21795 o Major features (logging):
21796 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21797 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21798 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21799 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21800 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21801 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21802 Implements enhancement 1668.
21804 o Major features (other):
21805 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21806 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21807 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21808 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21809 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21810 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21811 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21812 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21813 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21814 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21815 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21816 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21817 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21818 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21819 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21820 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21821 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21822 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21823 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21824 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21826 o New directory authorities:
21827 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21828 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21830 o Security/privacy fixes:
21831 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21832 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21833 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21834 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21835 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21836 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21837 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21838 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21839 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21840 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21841 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21842 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21843 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21844 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21845 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21846 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21847 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21848 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21849 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21850 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21851 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21852 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21853 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21854 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21855 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21856 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21857 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21858 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21859 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21860 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21861 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21863 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21864 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21865 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21866 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21867 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21868 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21869 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21870 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21871 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21872 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21873 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21874 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21875 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21876 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21879 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21880 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21881 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21882 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21883 which introduced predicted ports.
21884 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21885 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21886 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21887 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21888 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21889 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21890 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21891 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21892 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21894 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21895 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21896 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21897 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21898 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21899 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21901 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21902 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21903 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21904 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21905 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21906 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21907 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21908 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21909 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21910 documents entirely.
21912 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21913 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21914 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21915 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21916 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21917 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21918 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21919 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21920 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21921 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21922 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21923 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21924 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21925 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21926 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21927 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21928 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21929 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21931 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21932 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21933 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21934 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21935 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21936 cells were introduced.
21937 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21938 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21939 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21940 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21942 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21943 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21944 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21945 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21946 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21947 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21948 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21949 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21950 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21951 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21952 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21953 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21954 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21955 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21956 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21957 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21958 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21959 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21960 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21961 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21963 o Changes to default torrc file:
21964 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21965 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21967 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21968 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21969 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21971 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21972 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21973 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21975 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21976 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21977 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21978 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21979 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21980 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21981 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21982 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21983 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21984 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21985 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21986 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21987 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21988 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21989 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21990 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21993 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21994 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21995 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21996 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21997 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21998 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21999 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
22000 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
22001 sure. Closes bug 5139.
22002 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
22003 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
22004 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
22005 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
22006 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
22008 o Minor features (IPv6):
22009 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
22010 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
22011 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
22012 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
22013 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
22014 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
22016 o Minor features (hidden services):
22017 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
22018 Required by fix for bug 3460.
22019 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
22020 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
22021 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
22022 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
22023 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
22024 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
22025 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
22026 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
22027 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
22029 o Minor features (relays):
22030 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
22031 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
22032 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
22033 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22034 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22035 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
22036 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
22037 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
22038 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
22039 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
22040 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
22043 o Minor features (new config options):
22044 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
22045 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
22046 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
22047 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
22048 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
22049 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
22050 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
22051 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
22052 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
22053 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
22054 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
22055 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
22057 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
22058 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
22059 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
22060 Implements issue 933.
22061 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
22062 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
22063 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
22064 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
22065 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
22066 implements ticket 3439.
22067 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
22068 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
22069 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
22070 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
22071 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
22072 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
22073 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
22074 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
22076 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
22077 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
22078 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
22079 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
22080 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
22081 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
22082 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
22083 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
22084 appending to the list.
22085 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
22086 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
22087 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
22088 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
22091 o Minor features (controller, new events):
22092 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
22093 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
22094 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
22095 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
22096 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
22097 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
22099 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
22100 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
22101 circuit-status' control-port command.
22102 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
22103 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
22104 user. Implements ticket 1692.
22105 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
22106 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
22107 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
22109 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
22110 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
22111 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
22112 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
22113 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
22114 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
22115 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
22116 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
22117 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
22119 o Minor features (controller, other):
22120 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
22121 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
22122 part of ticket 3457.
22123 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
22124 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
22125 file. Resolves bug 1101.
22126 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
22127 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
22129 o Minor features (log messages):
22130 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
22131 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
22132 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
22133 please let us know about it.
22134 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
22135 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
22136 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
22137 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
22138 Resolves ticket 2474.
22139 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
22140 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
22142 o Minor features (other):
22143 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
22144 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
22145 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
22146 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
22148 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
22149 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
22150 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
22151 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
22152 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
22153 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
22154 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
22156 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
22157 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
22158 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
22159 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
22160 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
22162 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
22163 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
22164 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
22165 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
22166 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
22167 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
22168 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22169 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22170 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22171 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
22172 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
22173 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
22174 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
22175 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
22176 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
22177 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
22180 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
22181 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
22182 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
22183 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
22184 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
22185 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
22186 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22187 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
22188 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
22190 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
22191 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
22192 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22193 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22194 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22195 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22196 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22197 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22198 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22199 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22201 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22202 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22203 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22204 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22205 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22206 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22207 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22208 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22209 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
22211 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22212 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22213 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22214 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22215 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22216 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22217 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22218 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
22219 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
22221 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22222 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22223 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22224 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22225 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22226 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22227 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22229 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22230 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22231 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22232 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22234 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22235 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
22236 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
22237 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22238 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22239 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22240 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22241 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22242 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22243 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22244 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22245 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22248 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
22249 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22250 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22251 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22252 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22253 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22255 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22256 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22257 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22258 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22259 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
22260 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22261 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22262 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22263 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22264 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22265 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22266 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
22267 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
22268 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22269 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22271 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
22272 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
22273 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
22274 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
22275 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
22276 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
22278 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22279 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22280 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22281 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22282 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22283 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22284 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22285 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22286 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22287 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22288 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22289 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22290 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22291 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22292 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22294 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
22295 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22296 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22297 be disabled using the new
22298 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22299 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22300 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22301 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22302 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22303 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22304 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22306 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
22307 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22308 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22309 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22310 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
22311 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
22312 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
22314 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22315 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22316 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22317 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22318 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22319 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
22320 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
22321 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
22323 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22324 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22325 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22326 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22327 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22328 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22329 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22330 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22332 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22333 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
22334 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
22335 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
22336 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
22337 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
22338 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
22339 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
22341 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22342 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22343 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22344 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22346 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22347 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22348 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22350 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22351 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
22353 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
22354 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22355 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22356 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22357 case for flushing marked connections.
22358 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22359 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22360 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22361 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22362 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22363 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22364 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22365 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22366 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22367 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22369 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22370 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22371 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22372 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22373 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22374 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22375 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22376 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22377 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22378 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22379 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22381 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22382 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22383 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22384 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22385 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22387 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
22388 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22389 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22390 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22391 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22392 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22393 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22394 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22395 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22396 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22397 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22398 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
22399 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
22400 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
22401 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
22402 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
22404 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
22405 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22406 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22407 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22408 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22409 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22410 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22411 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22412 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22413 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
22414 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
22415 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
22416 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
22417 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22418 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
22419 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
22420 Implements ticket 3264.
22421 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
22423 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22424 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22425 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22426 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22427 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22428 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22430 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
22431 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22432 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22433 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22434 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22435 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22436 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22437 them from the other auths.
22438 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22439 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22440 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22441 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22442 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22443 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22444 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22445 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
22449 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22450 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22451 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22453 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22454 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22455 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22456 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22457 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22458 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
22459 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22460 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
22462 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
22463 ./src/test/bench binary.
22464 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
22465 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
22466 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
22467 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
22470 o Build improvements:
22471 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22472 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22473 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22474 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22475 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22476 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22477 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22478 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22479 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22480 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22481 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22482 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22483 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22484 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22485 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22486 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22487 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22488 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22489 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22490 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22491 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22493 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22495 o Build requirements:
22496 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22497 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22498 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22499 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22500 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22501 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22502 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22503 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22504 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22505 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22506 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22507 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22508 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22510 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22511 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22512 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22514 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22515 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22516 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22517 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22518 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22519 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22520 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22521 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22522 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22524 o Build fixes (other):
22525 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22526 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22528 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22529 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22530 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22531 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22532 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22533 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22534 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22535 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22537 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22538 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22541 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22542 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22543 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22544 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22545 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22546 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22547 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22548 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22550 o Code refactoring (safety):
22551 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22552 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22553 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22554 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22555 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22556 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22557 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22558 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22559 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22560 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22561 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22562 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22564 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22565 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22566 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22567 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22568 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22569 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22570 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22571 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22572 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22573 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22574 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22575 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22576 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22577 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22578 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22579 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22580 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22581 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22583 o Code refactoring (separate):
22584 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22585 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22586 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22588 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22589 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22592 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22593 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22594 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22595 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22596 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22597 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22598 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22599 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22601 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22602 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22603 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22604 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22605 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22606 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22607 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22608 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22609 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22610 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22611 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22613 o Code refactoring (other):
22614 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22615 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22617 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22618 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22619 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22620 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22621 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22622 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22623 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22624 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22625 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22626 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22627 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22628 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22630 o Removed features and files:
22631 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22632 it would be a bad idea to start.
22633 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22635 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22636 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22637 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22638 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22639 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22640 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22641 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22642 are no longer in use as relays.
22643 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22644 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22645 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22646 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22647 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22648 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22652 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22653 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22654 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22656 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22657 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22659 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22660 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22661 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22663 o Documentation fixes:
22664 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22665 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22666 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22667 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22668 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22669 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22670 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22671 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22674 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22675 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22679 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22680 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22681 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22682 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22683 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22684 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22685 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22689 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22690 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22691 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22694 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22695 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22696 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22697 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22698 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22699 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22700 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22701 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22702 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22703 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22704 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22705 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22706 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22707 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22710 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22711 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22712 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22716 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22717 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22718 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22719 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22720 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22721 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22722 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22723 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22724 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22725 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22726 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22729 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22730 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22733 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22734 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22737 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22738 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22739 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22740 and fixes several crash bugs.
22742 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22743 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22744 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22745 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22747 o Directory authority changes:
22748 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22749 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22753 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22754 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22755 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22756 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22757 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22758 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22759 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22760 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22761 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22762 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22763 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22764 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22765 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22766 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22767 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22768 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22769 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22770 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22771 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22772 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22773 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22774 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22775 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22776 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22777 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22778 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22779 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22782 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22783 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22784 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22785 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22787 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22788 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22790 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22791 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22792 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22793 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22794 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22795 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22796 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22797 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22800 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22801 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22802 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22803 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22804 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22805 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22806 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22807 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22808 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22809 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22810 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22811 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22812 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22813 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22814 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22815 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22816 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22817 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22818 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22819 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22820 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22821 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22822 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22823 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22824 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22825 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22826 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22827 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22828 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22829 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22830 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22831 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22832 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22833 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22834 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22835 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22836 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22837 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22838 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22839 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22840 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22841 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22842 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22843 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22844 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22845 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22847 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22848 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22849 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22850 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22851 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22852 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22853 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22854 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22855 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22856 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22857 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22858 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22859 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22860 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22861 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22864 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22865 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22866 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22867 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22869 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22872 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22873 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22874 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22875 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22876 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22877 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22878 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22881 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22882 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22883 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22885 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22886 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22887 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22888 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22889 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22890 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22891 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22892 (which Tor does not do by default).
22894 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22895 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22896 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22897 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22898 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22900 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22901 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22902 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22905 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22906 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22907 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22908 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22909 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22911 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22912 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22915 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22916 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22917 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22918 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22919 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22920 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22921 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22922 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22924 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22925 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22926 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22927 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22928 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22929 close based on processing a cell on it.
22930 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22931 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22932 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22933 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22934 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22935 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22936 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22937 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22938 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22939 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22940 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22941 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22942 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22943 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22944 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22947 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22948 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22949 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22950 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22951 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22952 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22953 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22955 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22956 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22957 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22958 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22959 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22960 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22961 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22962 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22963 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22964 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22965 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22966 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22967 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22968 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22969 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22970 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22971 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22972 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22973 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22974 Reported by "troll_un".
22975 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22976 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22977 Reported by "troll_un".
22978 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22979 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22980 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22981 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22984 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22985 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22986 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22987 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22988 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22989 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22990 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22991 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22992 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22993 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22994 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22996 o Packaging changes:
22997 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22998 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
23001 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
23002 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23003 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23004 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23005 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23007 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
23008 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
23010 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23011 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
23012 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
23013 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
23014 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23015 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
23016 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
23017 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
23018 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
23021 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23024 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
23025 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
23026 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
23028 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
23029 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
23030 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
23031 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
23032 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
23033 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
23034 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
23035 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
23036 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
23037 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
23038 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
23039 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
23040 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
23042 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
23043 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
23044 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
23045 currently connected to them.
23047 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
23048 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
23049 remain; see for example proposal 188.
23051 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
23052 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23053 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23054 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23055 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23056 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23057 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23058 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23059 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23060 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23061 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23062 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
23063 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
23064 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
23065 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
23066 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
23067 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
23068 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
23071 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
23072 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
23073 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
23074 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
23075 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
23076 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
23077 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
23078 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
23079 when bridges were introduced.
23080 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23081 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23082 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23083 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23084 Found by "frosty_un".
23087 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
23088 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
23090 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
23091 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
23092 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
23093 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
23094 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
23095 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
23096 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
23099 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
23100 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
23101 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
23102 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
23103 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
23104 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
23105 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
23106 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
23107 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
23108 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
23109 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
23110 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
23111 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
23112 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
23113 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
23114 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
23115 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
23116 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
23118 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
23119 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
23120 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
23121 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23122 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
23123 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
23124 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
23125 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
23126 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
23127 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
23128 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
23129 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
23132 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
23133 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
23134 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
23135 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23138 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
23139 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
23140 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
23141 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
23142 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
23144 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23145 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23146 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23147 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23148 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23149 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23150 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23151 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23152 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23153 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23155 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23156 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
23157 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
23158 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
23159 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
23160 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
23161 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
23162 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
23163 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
23164 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
23165 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
23166 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
23167 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
23168 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23169 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23170 Found by "frosty_un".
23171 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23172 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23173 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23174 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23175 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23176 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23177 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23178 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23179 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23180 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23181 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23182 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23183 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23184 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23185 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23186 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23187 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23188 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23189 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23191 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23192 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23193 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23194 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23195 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23196 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23197 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23198 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23200 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23201 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23202 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23203 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23204 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23205 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23206 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23207 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23208 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23209 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23210 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23211 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23213 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23214 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23215 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23216 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23217 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23218 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23219 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23220 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23221 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23223 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23225 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23226 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23227 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23228 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23229 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23230 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23231 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23232 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23234 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23235 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23236 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23237 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23238 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23240 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23241 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23242 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23243 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23244 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23247 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23248 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23249 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23250 reachable from Iran again.
23253 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23254 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23255 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23257 o Minor features (security):
23258 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23259 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23260 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23261 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23262 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23263 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23264 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23265 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23266 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23267 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23270 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23271 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23272 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23273 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23274 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23275 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23276 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23277 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23278 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23280 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23281 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23282 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23283 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23284 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23285 raised by bug 3898.
23286 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23287 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23288 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23289 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23290 fixes part of bug 2442.
23291 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23292 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23293 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23295 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23296 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23297 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23298 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23299 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23302 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23303 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23304 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23305 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23306 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23307 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23310 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23311 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23312 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23313 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23314 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23315 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23316 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23317 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23318 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23319 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23321 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23322 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23323 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23324 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23325 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23326 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23327 many many other features and bugfixes.
23329 o Major features (client performance):
23330 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
23331 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
23332 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23333 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
23334 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23335 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23337 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23338 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23339 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
23340 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
23341 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
23342 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
23343 the first implementation of this feature.
23345 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
23346 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23347 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23348 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23349 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23350 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23351 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23352 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23353 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
23354 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
23355 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
23356 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
23357 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
23358 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
23359 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
23360 file. Implements ticket 1296.
23362 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
23363 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
23364 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
23365 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
23366 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
23367 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
23368 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
23369 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
23370 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
23371 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
23372 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23373 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23374 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23375 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23376 they first get the Guard flag.
23377 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
23378 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
23379 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
23380 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
23381 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
23382 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
23383 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23384 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23386 o Major features (relays control their load better):
23387 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23388 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23389 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23390 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23391 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
23392 based on a variant of proposal 163.
23393 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23394 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23395 but never per-conn write limits.
23396 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23397 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23398 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23399 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23401 o Major features (controllers):
23402 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
23403 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
23404 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
23405 contributions to the network.
23406 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
23407 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
23408 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
23410 o Major features (directory authorities):
23411 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23412 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23413 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23415 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
23416 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23417 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
23418 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23419 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23420 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23421 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23422 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23423 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23424 hash algorithm in the future.
23425 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23426 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23427 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23429 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
23430 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
23431 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
23432 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
23433 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
23434 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
23435 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
23436 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
23437 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
23438 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
23439 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
23440 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
23441 connections to directory servers.
23442 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
23443 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
23444 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
23445 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
23446 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
23447 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
23448 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
23449 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
23450 information, or fetch directory information.
23451 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
23452 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23453 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23454 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23455 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23457 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23458 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23459 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23460 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23461 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23462 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23463 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23464 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23465 the network changes.
23466 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23467 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23469 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
23470 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
23471 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
23472 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
23473 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
23474 unless you really want your Tor to break.
23475 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23476 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23477 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23478 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23479 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23480 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23481 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23482 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23483 reachability self-tests.
23484 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23485 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23486 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23487 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23488 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23490 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23491 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23492 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23494 o Major features (misc):
23495 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23496 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23497 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23498 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23499 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23500 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23501 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23502 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23503 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23504 part of ticket 3076.
23505 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23506 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23507 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23509 o Code security improvements:
23510 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23511 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23512 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23513 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23514 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23515 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23516 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23517 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23518 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23519 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23520 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23521 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23522 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23523 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23524 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23525 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23526 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23527 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23528 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23529 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23530 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23531 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23532 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23533 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23534 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23535 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23536 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23537 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23539 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23540 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23541 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23542 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23543 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23544 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23545 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23546 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23547 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23548 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23549 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23550 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23551 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23553 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23554 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23555 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23557 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23558 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23560 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23561 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23562 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23563 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23564 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23565 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23566 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23567 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23568 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23569 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23570 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23571 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23572 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23573 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23574 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23575 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23576 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23578 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23579 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23580 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23582 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23583 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23584 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23585 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23586 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23587 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23588 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23589 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23590 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23591 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23592 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23593 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23594 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23595 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23596 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23597 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23598 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23599 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23600 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23602 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23603 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23604 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23605 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23606 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23607 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23608 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23609 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23610 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23611 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23613 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23614 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23615 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23616 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23617 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23618 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23619 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23620 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23621 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23622 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23624 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23625 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23626 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23627 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23628 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23629 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23630 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23631 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23632 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23633 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23634 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23635 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23636 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23638 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23639 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23640 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23641 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23642 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23643 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23644 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23645 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23646 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23647 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23649 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23650 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23651 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23652 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23653 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23654 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23655 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23657 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23658 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23659 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23660 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23661 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23662 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23663 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23664 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23665 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23666 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23667 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23668 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23669 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23670 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23671 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23673 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23674 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23675 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23676 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23677 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23678 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23679 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23681 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23682 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23683 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23684 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23685 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23686 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23687 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23688 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23690 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23691 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23692 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23693 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23694 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23695 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23696 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23697 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23698 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23699 the longest-lived bug prize.
23700 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23701 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23702 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23703 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23704 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23705 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23706 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23707 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23708 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23709 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23711 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23712 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23713 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23714 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23715 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23716 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23719 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23720 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23721 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23722 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23723 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23724 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23725 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23726 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23727 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23728 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23729 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23730 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23731 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23732 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23733 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23734 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23735 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23736 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23737 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23738 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23739 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23740 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23741 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23742 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23743 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23744 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23746 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23747 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23748 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23749 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23750 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23751 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23752 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23753 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23754 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23756 o Minor features (relays):
23757 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23758 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23759 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23760 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23761 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23762 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23763 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23764 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23766 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23767 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23768 Resolves ticket 3252.
23769 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23770 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23772 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23773 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23774 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23775 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23776 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23778 o Minor features (network statistics):
23779 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23780 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23781 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23782 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23783 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23784 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23785 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23786 measure download times.
23787 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23788 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23790 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23791 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23792 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23793 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23795 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23796 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23797 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23799 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23800 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23801 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23802 Implements ticket 2432.
23803 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23804 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23805 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23806 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23807 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23808 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23809 Implements enhancement 1790.
23810 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23811 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23813 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23814 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23815 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23816 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23817 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23818 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23819 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23821 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23823 o Minor features (clients):
23824 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23825 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23826 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23827 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23829 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23830 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23831 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23832 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23833 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23834 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23835 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23836 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23838 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23839 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23840 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23841 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23842 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23843 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23844 SSL handshake issues.
23846 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23847 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23848 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23849 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23850 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23851 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23852 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23853 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23854 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23855 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23856 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23857 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23858 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23859 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23860 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23861 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23862 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23863 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23864 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23865 hour of their uptime.
23866 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23867 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23868 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23869 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23871 o Minor features (hidden services):
23872 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23873 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23874 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23875 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23876 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23877 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23878 by fix for bug 3000.
23879 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23880 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23881 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23882 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23883 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23885 o Minor features (controller interface):
23886 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23887 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23888 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23889 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23890 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23891 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23892 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23893 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23894 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23895 over our stored history.
23896 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23897 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23898 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23900 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23901 to the circuit build timeout.
23902 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23903 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23904 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23906 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23907 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23908 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23909 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23911 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23912 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23913 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23914 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23915 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23916 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23917 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23918 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23919 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23920 arguments we do not recognize.
23922 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23923 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23924 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23925 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23926 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23927 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23928 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23929 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23930 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23931 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23932 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23933 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23934 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23935 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23936 got suppressed since the last warning.
23937 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23938 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23939 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23940 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23941 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23942 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23943 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23945 o Minor features (log domains):
23946 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23947 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23948 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23950 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23951 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23953 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23954 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23955 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23957 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23958 during the TLS handshake.
23960 o Minor features (build process):
23961 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23962 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23963 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23965 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23966 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23967 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23969 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23970 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23971 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23972 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23973 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23974 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23976 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23977 source files Tor was built with.
23978 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23979 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23980 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23981 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23982 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23983 speeds up the build considerably.
23985 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23986 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23987 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23988 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23989 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23990 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23991 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23992 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23993 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23994 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23995 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23996 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23997 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23998 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23999 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
24000 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
24001 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
24002 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
24003 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
24004 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
24005 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
24006 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
24007 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
24008 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
24009 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
24010 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
24011 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
24012 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
24014 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
24015 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
24016 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
24019 o Minor features (unit tests):
24020 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
24021 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
24022 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
24023 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
24024 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
24025 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
24027 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
24028 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
24031 o Minor features (misc):
24032 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
24033 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
24034 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
24035 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
24037 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
24038 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
24039 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
24040 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
24041 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
24043 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
24044 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
24045 open() without checking it.
24046 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
24047 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
24048 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
24049 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
24051 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
24052 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
24053 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
24054 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
24055 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
24056 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
24057 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
24058 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
24059 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
24060 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
24061 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
24062 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
24063 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
24064 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
24065 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
24066 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
24067 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
24068 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
24069 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
24070 based on the time during which we were active and not in
24071 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
24072 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
24073 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
24074 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
24075 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24076 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
24077 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
24078 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
24080 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
24081 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
24082 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
24083 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
24085 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
24086 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
24087 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
24088 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
24089 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
24091 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
24092 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
24093 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24094 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
24095 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
24096 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
24097 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
24098 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
24099 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
24100 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
24101 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
24102 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
24103 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
24105 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
24106 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
24107 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
24108 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
24109 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
24110 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
24111 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
24112 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
24113 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
24114 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
24115 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
24116 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
24117 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
24118 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
24119 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
24120 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
24121 two-hop circuits are actually created.
24122 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
24123 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
24124 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
24125 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
24127 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
24128 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
24129 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
24130 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
24131 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
24132 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
24133 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
24134 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
24135 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
24137 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
24138 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
24139 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
24140 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
24141 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
24142 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
24143 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
24144 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
24145 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
24146 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
24147 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
24148 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
24149 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
24152 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
24153 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
24154 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
24155 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
24156 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24157 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
24158 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
24159 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
24160 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
24161 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
24162 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
24164 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
24165 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
24167 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
24168 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
24169 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
24170 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
24171 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24172 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
24173 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
24174 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
24176 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24177 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24178 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24179 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24180 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24181 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24182 discovered by katmagic.
24183 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24184 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24186 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
24187 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24188 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24189 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24190 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24191 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24192 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24193 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24194 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24196 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24197 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24199 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24200 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24202 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24203 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24205 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
24206 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
24207 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
24208 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24209 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
24210 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
24211 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24212 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
24213 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
24214 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
24215 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
24216 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
24217 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
24218 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
24219 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
24221 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
24222 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24223 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24224 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24225 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
24226 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
24227 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
24228 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
24229 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
24231 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
24232 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24233 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24235 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24236 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24237 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24238 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24240 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
24241 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24242 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24243 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24244 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24245 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
24246 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
24248 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24249 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24250 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24251 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24252 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24253 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24255 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
24256 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
24257 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
24258 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
24259 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
24260 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
24261 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
24262 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24263 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
24265 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
24266 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
24267 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24268 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24269 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24270 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24271 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24272 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24273 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
24274 control-spec.txt said they were.
24276 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24277 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24278 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24280 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24281 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24282 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
24283 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
24284 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
24286 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24287 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24289 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24290 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24291 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24292 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24293 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24294 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24295 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24297 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24298 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24299 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24300 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24301 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
24302 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
24303 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
24304 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
24307 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24308 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24309 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24310 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24311 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24312 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24313 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24314 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24315 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24316 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24317 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24318 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24319 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24320 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24321 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
24323 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24324 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
24325 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
24326 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24327 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24328 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24329 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24331 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24332 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24335 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24336 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24337 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24338 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24339 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24340 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24341 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24342 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24343 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24344 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24345 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24346 fixes part of bug 3407.
24347 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24348 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24349 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24350 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24351 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24352 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24353 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24354 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24355 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24356 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24358 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24359 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24360 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24361 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24362 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24363 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24364 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24365 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24366 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24367 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24368 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24369 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24370 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24371 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24372 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24373 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24374 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24376 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24377 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24378 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24379 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24380 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24381 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24382 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24383 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
24384 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
24385 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
24386 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
24387 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
24389 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24390 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24391 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24392 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24393 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24395 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
24396 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24397 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24398 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24400 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
24401 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
24402 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
24403 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
24404 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
24405 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
24406 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
24407 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
24408 structures and defines in or.h for now.
24409 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24411 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24412 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24413 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24414 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24415 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24416 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24417 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24418 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24420 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
24421 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
24422 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
24424 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24425 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
24426 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
24427 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
24428 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
24429 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
24430 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
24431 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24432 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24433 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24435 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24437 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24438 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24439 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24440 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24441 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24442 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24443 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24444 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24445 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
24446 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
24448 o Documentation changes:
24449 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24450 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24452 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24453 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
24454 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
24455 what should go in a patch.
24456 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
24458 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
24459 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
24460 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
24461 projects directory in svn.
24463 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
24464 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
24465 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
24466 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24467 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
24468 hidden service usage.
24469 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
24470 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
24471 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24472 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24473 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24476 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24477 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24478 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24479 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24480 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24483 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24484 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24485 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24486 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24487 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24488 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24489 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24490 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24491 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24492 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24493 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24494 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24495 via application-level web tricks.
24496 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24497 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24498 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24499 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24500 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24501 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24502 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24503 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24504 keep the workaround in place.
24505 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24506 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24507 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24508 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24509 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24510 want to do it differently.
24511 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24512 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24513 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24516 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24517 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24518 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24519 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24520 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24521 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24524 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24525 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24526 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24527 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24528 the rest of bug 1074.
24529 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24530 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24531 Found by "piebeer".
24532 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24533 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24534 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24535 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24536 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24537 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24538 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24541 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24543 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24546 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24547 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24548 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24549 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24550 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24551 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24552 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24553 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24554 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24555 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24556 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24558 o Packaging changes:
24559 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24560 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24561 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24562 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24563 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24564 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24567 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24568 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24569 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24570 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24571 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24573 o Major bugfixes (security):
24574 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24575 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24576 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24578 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24579 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24580 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24581 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24582 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24583 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24584 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24585 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24587 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24588 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24589 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24590 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24591 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24592 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24593 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24594 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24595 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24596 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24597 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24598 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24599 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24600 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24603 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24604 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24605 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24606 bug reported by doorss.
24607 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24608 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24609 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24610 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24611 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24613 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24614 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24615 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24616 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24617 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24620 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24621 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24624 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24625 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24626 Automake 1.7 or later.
24627 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24628 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24629 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24630 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24633 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24634 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24635 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24636 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24640 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24641 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24642 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24643 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24645 o Directory authority changes:
24646 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24649 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24652 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24653 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24654 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24655 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24656 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24659 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24660 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24661 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24662 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24663 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24664 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24665 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24666 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24667 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24668 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24669 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24670 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24671 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24672 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24673 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24674 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24675 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24676 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24677 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24678 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24679 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24680 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24681 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24684 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24685 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24686 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24687 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24689 o New directory authorities:
24690 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24694 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24695 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24696 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24698 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24699 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24700 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24701 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24702 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24703 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24705 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24706 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24707 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24710 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24711 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24712 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24713 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24714 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24715 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24716 Patch from mingw-san.
24719 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24720 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24721 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24722 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24723 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24724 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24727 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24728 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24729 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24730 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24731 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24733 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24734 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24737 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24738 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24739 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24740 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24741 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24742 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24743 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24744 their directory fetches over TLS).
24745 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24746 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24747 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24748 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24749 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24750 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24751 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24752 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24755 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24756 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24760 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24761 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24762 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24763 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24764 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24765 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24766 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24769 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24770 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24771 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24772 several minor potential security bugs.
24775 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24776 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24777 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24778 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24779 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24780 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24781 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24784 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24785 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24787 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24788 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24789 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24790 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24793 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24794 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24798 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24799 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24800 customized patches to run/build.
24803 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24804 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24805 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24808 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24809 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24810 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24811 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24812 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24813 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24814 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24815 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24818 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24819 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24820 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24821 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24822 libraries in a security patch.
24823 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24824 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24825 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24826 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24830 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24831 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24834 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24835 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24836 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24837 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24838 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24841 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24842 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24843 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24844 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24845 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24847 o Directory authority changes:
24848 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24852 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24853 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24854 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24857 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24858 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24859 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24860 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24861 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24864 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24865 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24866 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24867 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24868 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24869 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24870 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24873 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24874 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24875 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24876 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24877 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24878 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24880 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24881 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24884 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24885 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24886 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24887 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24889 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24890 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24892 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24893 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24894 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24895 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24898 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24899 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24900 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24901 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24902 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24904 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24905 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24907 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24908 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24909 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24912 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24913 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24914 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24916 o New directory authorities:
24917 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24919 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24922 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24923 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24925 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24926 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24927 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24928 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24929 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24930 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24931 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24932 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24933 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24934 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24935 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24936 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24937 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24938 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24939 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24940 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24941 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24943 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24944 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24945 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24947 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24948 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24952 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24953 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24954 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24955 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24956 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24959 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24960 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24964 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24965 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24966 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24969 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24970 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24971 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24972 and confuse fewer users.
24975 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24976 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24977 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24978 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24979 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24980 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24981 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24984 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24985 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24986 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24987 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24988 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24989 other features and bug fixes.
24991 o Major features (clients):
24992 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24993 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24994 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24995 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24997 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24998 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24999 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
25000 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
25001 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
25002 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
25003 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
25004 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
25005 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
25006 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
25008 o Major features (relays):
25009 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
25010 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
25011 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
25012 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
25013 data. Found by Jacob.
25014 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
25015 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
25016 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
25017 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
25019 o Major features (hidden services):
25020 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
25021 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
25022 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
25023 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
25024 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
25025 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
25026 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
25027 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
25028 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
25029 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
25030 lookups more reliable.
25032 o Major features (path selection):
25033 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
25034 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
25035 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
25036 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
25037 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
25039 o Major features (misc):
25040 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
25041 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
25043 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
25044 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
25045 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
25046 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
25047 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
25048 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
25050 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
25051 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
25052 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
25053 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
25055 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
25058 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
25059 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
25060 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
25061 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
25062 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
25063 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
25064 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
25065 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
25066 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
25067 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
25068 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
25069 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
25070 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
25071 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
25072 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
25073 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
25074 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
25075 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
25076 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
25077 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
25078 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
25079 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
25080 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
25081 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
25082 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
25083 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
25084 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
25085 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
25086 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
25087 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
25088 Implements proposal 148.
25090 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
25091 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
25092 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
25093 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
25094 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
25095 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
25097 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
25098 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
25099 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
25100 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
25101 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
25102 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25103 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
25104 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25105 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
25107 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
25108 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
25109 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
25110 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
25112 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
25113 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
25114 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
25115 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
25116 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
25117 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
25118 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
25119 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
25120 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25122 o Major bugfixes (clients):
25123 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
25124 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
25125 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
25126 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
25127 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
25128 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
25129 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
25130 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
25131 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
25132 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
25133 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
25134 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
25135 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
25136 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
25137 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
25140 o Major bugfixes (relays):
25141 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
25142 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
25143 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
25144 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
25145 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
25146 patch by Sebastian.
25147 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25148 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25149 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25150 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
25151 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
25152 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
25153 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
25154 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
25155 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
25156 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
25159 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25160 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
25161 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
25162 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
25163 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
25164 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
25166 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25167 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
25168 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
25169 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
25170 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
25171 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
25172 on a typical directory cache.
25173 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
25174 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
25175 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
25176 and may reduce fragmentation.
25178 o New/changed config options:
25179 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
25180 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
25181 Suggested by Lucky Green.
25182 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
25183 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
25184 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
25185 locked down these days.
25186 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
25187 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25188 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
25189 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
25190 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
25191 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
25192 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
25193 output to messages of warning and error severity.
25194 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
25195 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
25196 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25197 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25198 directory requests we should expect to see.
25199 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
25200 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25201 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25202 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25203 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25204 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25205 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
25207 o Minor features (relays):
25208 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
25209 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
25210 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
25211 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
25212 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
25214 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
25215 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
25216 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
25217 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25218 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25219 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25220 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25221 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25222 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25223 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25224 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25225 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25226 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25228 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25229 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25230 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25231 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25232 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25233 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
25234 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25235 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
25236 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
25237 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
25238 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
25240 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25241 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25242 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25243 fingerprints with or without space.
25245 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
25246 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25247 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25248 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25249 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25250 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25251 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25252 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25253 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25255 o Minor features (bridges):
25256 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
25257 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
25259 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
25260 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
25263 o Minor features (hidden services):
25264 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25265 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25266 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25267 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25268 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25269 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25270 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25271 faster after restart.
25272 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25273 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25275 o Minor features (build and packaging):
25276 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
25278 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25279 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25281 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25282 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25283 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25284 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25285 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
25286 are built without support for deprecated functions.
25287 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25288 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25289 system to do it for us.
25290 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
25291 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
25292 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
25293 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
25294 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
25295 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
25296 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25297 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25298 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25299 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25300 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25301 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25302 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25303 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25304 with log.h on Android.
25305 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25306 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25308 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25309 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25310 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25311 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
25313 o Minor features (controllers):
25314 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
25315 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
25316 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
25317 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
25318 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
25319 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
25320 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
25321 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25322 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25323 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25325 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25326 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25327 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25328 been fetched and validated.
25329 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25330 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
25332 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
25334 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25335 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25336 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25337 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25338 partway through and wants to catch up.
25339 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25341 o Minor features (tools):
25342 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
25343 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
25344 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25345 people find host:port too confusing.
25346 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25347 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25349 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25350 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
25351 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25352 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25353 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25354 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25355 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25356 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25357 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25359 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25360 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25361 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25362 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25363 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25365 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25366 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25367 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25369 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
25370 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25371 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
25372 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
25373 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25374 have already been marked for close.
25375 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25376 memory performance during directory parsing.
25378 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25379 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25380 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25381 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25382 done that for a long time.
25383 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
25384 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
25385 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
25386 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
25387 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
25388 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
25389 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
25390 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25391 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25392 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25393 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25394 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25395 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25396 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25397 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25398 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25399 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25400 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25401 because of a pending download.
25402 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25403 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25404 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25405 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25406 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25408 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
25409 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25410 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25411 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25412 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25413 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
25414 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
25415 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
25416 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
25418 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25419 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
25421 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
25422 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
25423 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25424 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
25425 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
25426 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
25427 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
25428 of 0. Suggested by lark.
25429 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
25430 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
25431 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
25432 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
25433 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
25435 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25436 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25437 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25439 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25440 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25442 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
25443 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
25444 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
25445 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
25446 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
25447 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25448 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25449 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25450 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25451 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25452 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25453 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25454 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25456 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25457 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
25458 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
25459 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
25460 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
25461 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
25462 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
25464 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
25465 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25467 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25468 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
25469 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
25470 Workaround for bug 1024.
25471 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25472 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25473 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25474 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25475 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25476 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25477 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25478 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25481 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25482 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25485 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25486 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25487 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25488 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25489 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25490 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25491 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25493 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25494 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25495 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25496 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25497 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25498 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25499 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25500 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25503 o Deprecated and removed features:
25504 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25505 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25506 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25508 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25510 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25511 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25512 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25513 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25514 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25515 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25516 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25517 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25518 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25519 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25520 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25521 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25522 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25523 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25526 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25527 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25528 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25529 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25530 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25532 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25533 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25534 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25535 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25536 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25537 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25538 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25539 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25540 actual mistakes we're making here.
25541 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25542 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25543 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25544 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25545 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25546 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25547 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25548 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25549 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25550 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25551 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25552 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25553 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25554 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25555 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25558 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25560 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25561 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25562 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25563 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25564 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25567 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25568 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25569 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25570 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25571 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25572 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25573 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25574 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25575 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25576 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25579 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25580 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25581 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25582 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25583 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25584 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25585 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25586 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25589 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25590 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25591 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25592 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25593 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25595 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25596 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25597 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25598 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25601 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25602 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25603 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25604 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25605 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25606 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25607 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25608 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25611 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25612 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25613 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25614 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25617 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25618 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25619 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25620 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25622 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25623 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25624 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25627 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25628 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25631 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25632 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25633 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25634 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25635 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25636 reported by "wood".
25637 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25638 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25639 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25640 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25641 identify a connection.
25642 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25643 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25644 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25645 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25646 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25647 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25648 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25649 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25650 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25651 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25653 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25654 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25655 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25656 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25657 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25658 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25659 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25662 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25663 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25665 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25666 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25667 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25668 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25669 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25670 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25671 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25672 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25674 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25675 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25676 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25677 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25678 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25679 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25680 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25681 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25682 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25683 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25684 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25685 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25686 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25687 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25688 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25689 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25690 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25691 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25692 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25693 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25694 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25695 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25696 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25697 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25698 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25699 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25700 840. Patch from rovv.
25701 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25702 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25703 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25705 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25706 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25707 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25708 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25709 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25710 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25711 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25713 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25714 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25715 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25718 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25719 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25721 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25722 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25723 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25724 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25725 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25726 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25727 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25728 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25729 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25731 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25733 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25734 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25738 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25739 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25740 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25741 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25742 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25743 variety of other issues.
25746 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25747 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25748 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25749 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25750 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25751 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25752 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25753 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25754 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25755 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25756 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25757 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25760 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25761 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25763 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25764 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25765 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25766 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25767 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25768 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25769 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25770 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25771 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25772 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25773 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25774 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25775 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25776 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25777 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25781 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25782 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25783 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25784 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25785 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25786 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25787 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25788 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25789 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25790 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25791 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25792 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25793 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25794 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25795 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25796 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25797 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25798 list. It has been gone for many months.
25799 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25800 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25801 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25804 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25805 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25806 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25809 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25810 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25811 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25812 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25815 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25816 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25817 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25818 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25819 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25820 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25822 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25823 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25824 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25825 pointed out by rovv.
25828 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25829 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25830 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25831 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25832 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25833 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25834 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25835 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25836 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25837 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25838 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25839 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25840 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25841 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25842 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25843 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25844 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25845 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25846 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25847 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25848 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25851 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25852 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25853 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25854 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25855 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25856 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25857 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25859 o New v3 directory design:
25860 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25861 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25862 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25863 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25864 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25865 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25866 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25868 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25869 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25870 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25871 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25872 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25873 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25874 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25875 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25876 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25877 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25878 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25879 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25880 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25881 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25883 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25884 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25885 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25886 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25887 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25888 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25889 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25890 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25891 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25892 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25893 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25894 certain censored countries by default again.
25895 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25896 Tor's x509 certificates.
25898 o Implement bridge relays:
25899 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25900 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25901 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25902 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25903 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25904 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25905 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25906 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25907 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25908 rather than "v2,v3".
25909 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25910 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25911 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25912 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25913 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25914 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25915 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25916 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25917 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25918 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25919 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25921 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25922 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25923 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25924 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25925 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25926 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25927 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25928 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25929 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25930 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25931 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25932 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25933 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25934 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25935 bridges are functioning.
25936 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25937 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25938 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25939 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25940 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25941 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25942 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25943 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25944 knows that password. Unset by default.
25945 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25946 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25947 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25948 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25949 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25950 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25951 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25952 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25953 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25954 and bridges@torproject.org.
25956 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25957 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25958 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25959 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25960 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25961 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25962 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25963 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25964 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25965 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25966 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25967 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25968 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25969 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25970 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25972 o Major features (relay usability):
25973 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25974 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25975 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25976 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25977 proposal 111 for details.
25978 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25979 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25980 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25981 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25983 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25984 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25985 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25987 o Major features (directory authorities):
25988 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25989 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25990 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25991 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25992 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25993 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25994 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25995 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25996 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25997 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25998 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25999 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
26000 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
26002 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
26003 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
26004 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
26005 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
26006 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
26007 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
26008 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
26009 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
26010 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
26011 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
26012 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
26013 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
26014 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
26015 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
26016 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
26017 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
26018 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
26019 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
26020 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
26021 general, controller, or bridge.
26023 o Major features (other):
26024 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
26025 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
26026 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
26027 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
26028 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
26029 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
26030 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
26031 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
26032 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
26033 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
26034 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
26035 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
26036 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
26037 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
26040 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
26041 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
26042 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
26044 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
26045 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
26046 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
26047 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
26048 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
26049 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
26050 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
26051 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
26052 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
26053 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
26054 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
26056 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
26057 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
26059 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
26060 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
26061 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
26062 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
26064 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
26065 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
26066 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
26067 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
26068 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
26070 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
26071 address maps to an internal address space.
26072 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
26073 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
26074 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
26075 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
26076 complements proposal 107.
26077 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
26078 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
26079 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
26080 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
26081 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
26082 reported by taranis and lodger.
26083 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
26084 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
26085 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
26086 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
26087 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
26088 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
26089 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
26090 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
26091 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
26092 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
26093 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
26094 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
26095 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
26097 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
26098 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
26100 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
26101 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
26102 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
26103 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
26104 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
26105 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
26106 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
26108 o Major bugfixes (other):
26109 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
26110 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
26111 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
26113 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
26114 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
26115 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
26116 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
26117 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
26118 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
26119 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
26120 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
26121 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
26122 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
26123 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
26124 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
26125 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
26126 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
26127 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
26128 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
26129 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
26130 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
26131 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
26133 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
26134 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
26135 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
26136 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
26137 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
26138 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
26139 eat all of our bandwidth.
26140 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
26141 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
26142 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
26143 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
26144 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
26145 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
26146 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
26147 bug 688, reported by mfr.
26148 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
26149 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
26150 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
26151 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
26153 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
26154 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
26155 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
26156 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
26157 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
26158 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
26159 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
26160 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
26161 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
26162 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
26163 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
26164 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
26166 o Performance improvements (memory):
26167 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
26168 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
26169 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
26170 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
26171 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
26172 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
26173 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
26174 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
26175 memory fragmentation.
26176 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
26177 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
26178 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
26179 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
26180 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
26182 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
26183 of them were actually distinct.
26184 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
26186 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
26187 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
26188 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
26189 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
26190 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
26191 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
26192 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
26193 performance-intensive.
26194 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
26195 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
26196 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26197 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26198 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
26201 o Performance improvements (socket management):
26202 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
26203 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26204 our allocated connection limit.
26205 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26206 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26207 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26208 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26209 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26211 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26212 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
26214 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
26215 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
26216 is interested in a given message.
26217 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26218 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26219 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26220 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26221 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26223 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26224 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26225 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26227 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26228 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26229 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
26230 they are the same).
26231 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26232 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26233 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26234 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26237 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
26238 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26239 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26240 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26241 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26242 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26243 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26245 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26246 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26247 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26248 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26249 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26250 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26251 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26252 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
26253 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
26254 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26255 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26256 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26257 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26260 o Changed config option behavior (features):
26261 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26262 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26263 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26264 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26265 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26266 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26267 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26268 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26269 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26270 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26271 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26272 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26273 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26274 and are reaching it.
26275 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26276 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26277 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26278 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
26280 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
26281 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26282 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26283 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26284 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26285 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26286 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26287 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26288 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
26290 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26291 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
26292 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
26293 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26294 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26295 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26296 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26297 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26299 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26300 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26302 o New config options:
26303 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
26304 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
26305 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26306 running a test network on a single host.
26307 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26308 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26309 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26310 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26311 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26312 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26313 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26314 the approved-routers file.
26315 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
26316 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
26317 v2 directory information.
26319 o Minor features (other):
26320 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26321 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26322 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26323 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26324 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26325 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
26327 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26328 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26329 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
26330 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
26331 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
26332 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26333 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26335 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26336 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26337 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26339 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26340 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26341 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26342 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26343 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26345 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26346 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26347 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26348 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26349 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26350 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26351 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26353 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26354 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26355 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
26356 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26357 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26358 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26359 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26360 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26361 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26364 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26365 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26366 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26368 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26369 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26370 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26371 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26372 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26373 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26375 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26376 bandwidthburst values.
26377 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26378 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26379 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26380 to mark all our entry points down.
26381 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26382 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26383 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
26384 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26385 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26387 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26388 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26389 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26390 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26391 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26392 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26393 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
26394 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
26395 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
26397 o Controller features:
26398 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26399 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26400 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26401 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26402 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26403 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26405 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26406 multiple controller passwords.
26407 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26408 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26409 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26410 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26412 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26413 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26414 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26415 cookie authentication file, and config option
26416 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26417 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26418 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26419 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
26421 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26422 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
26423 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26424 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26425 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
26426 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26427 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26429 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26430 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26432 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26433 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26434 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26435 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26436 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26437 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
26438 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26439 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26440 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26441 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26442 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26443 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26444 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26446 o Controller bugfixes:
26447 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26448 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26449 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
26450 processes can't run us out of memory.
26451 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26452 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26453 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26455 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26456 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26457 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26458 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
26459 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26460 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26461 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26462 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26463 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26464 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26465 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26466 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26467 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26468 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26469 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26471 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26472 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26474 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26475 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26476 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26477 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26478 WARN-severity events.
26480 o Portability / building / compiling:
26481 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26482 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26483 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26484 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26485 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26486 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26487 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26488 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26489 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26490 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26491 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26492 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26493 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26495 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26496 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26497 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26498 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26499 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26500 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26501 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26502 partial results on small file reads.
26503 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26504 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26505 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26506 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26507 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26508 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26510 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26511 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26512 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26513 logging for the unit tests.
26514 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26515 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26517 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26518 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26520 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26521 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26522 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26523 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26526 o Logging improvements:
26527 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26528 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26529 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26530 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26531 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26532 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26533 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26535 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26536 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26537 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26538 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26539 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26540 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26541 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26542 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26543 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26544 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26545 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26546 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26547 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26548 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26549 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26550 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26551 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26552 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26553 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26555 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26556 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26557 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26558 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26560 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26561 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26562 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26563 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26564 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26566 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26567 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26568 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26569 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26570 makes the log messages nicer.
26571 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26572 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26574 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26575 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26576 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26578 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26579 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26580 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26581 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26582 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26583 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26584 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26585 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26586 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26587 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26589 o Newly deprecated features:
26590 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26591 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26592 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26593 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26595 o Removed features:
26596 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26597 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26598 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26599 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26600 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26602 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26603 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26604 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26605 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26606 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26607 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26608 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26609 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26611 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26612 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26613 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26614 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26615 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26616 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26618 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26619 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26620 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26621 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26622 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26623 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26624 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26625 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26626 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26627 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26628 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26629 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26630 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26631 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26635 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26636 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26637 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26638 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26641 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26642 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26643 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26644 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26645 on network address.
26648 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26649 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26650 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26651 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26652 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26653 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26654 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26655 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26656 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26657 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26658 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26659 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26662 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26663 rebuild our server descriptor.
26664 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26665 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26666 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26667 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26668 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26669 nonstandard integer types.
26670 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26671 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26672 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26673 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26674 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26676 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26677 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26678 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26679 when they receive them.
26680 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26681 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26682 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26683 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26684 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26685 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26686 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26687 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26688 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26689 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26693 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26694 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26695 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26696 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26697 lists for a few hours each day.
26699 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26700 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26701 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26702 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26703 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26704 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26705 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26706 rend_process_relay_cell().
26708 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26709 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26710 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26711 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26712 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26713 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26714 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26715 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26717 o Major bugfixes (other):
26718 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26719 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26720 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26721 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26722 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26723 circuit cannibalization).
26724 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26725 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26726 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26727 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26728 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26729 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26732 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26733 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26735 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26736 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26737 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26738 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26739 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26740 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26741 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26742 were reporting the dir port.)
26743 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26744 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26745 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26746 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26747 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26749 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26750 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26751 the onion key from getting rotated.
26752 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26753 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26754 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26755 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26756 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26757 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26758 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26761 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26762 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26763 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26764 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26765 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26768 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26769 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26772 o Major bugfixes (security):
26773 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26774 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26775 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26777 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26778 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26779 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26781 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26782 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26783 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26784 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26785 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26786 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26788 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26789 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26790 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26791 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26792 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26794 o Minor features (controller):
26795 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26796 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26797 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26798 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26800 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26801 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26802 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26803 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26804 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26805 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26806 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26807 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26809 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26810 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26811 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26812 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26813 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26814 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26815 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26816 if we ran off the end of the list.
26817 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26818 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26819 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26820 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26821 every time we change any piece of our config.
26822 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26823 encourage people using them to stop.
26824 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26826 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26827 servers to choose a circuit.
26828 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26829 unparseable piece of it.
26832 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26833 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26834 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26835 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26836 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26837 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26839 o Major security fixes:
26840 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26841 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26844 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26845 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26846 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26847 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26849 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26850 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26852 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26853 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26854 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26855 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26856 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26857 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26858 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26860 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26861 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26862 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26864 o Major bugfixes (security):
26865 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26867 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26868 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26869 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26870 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26871 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26872 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26873 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26874 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26875 guard list unless we need to.
26877 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26878 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26879 don't get overused as guards.
26881 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26882 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26883 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26884 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26885 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26887 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26888 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26889 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26892 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26893 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26894 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26895 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26896 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26897 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26898 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26899 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26902 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26903 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26904 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26905 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26907 o Directory authority changes:
26908 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26909 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26910 or use hidden services.
26912 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26913 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26914 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26915 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26916 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26917 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26918 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26919 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26920 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26923 o Major bugfixes (security):
26924 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26925 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26926 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26928 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26929 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26930 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26931 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26932 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26933 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26934 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26935 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26936 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26937 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26940 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26941 purpose=controller.
26942 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26943 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26945 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26946 having a hard time downloading.
26947 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26948 partial results on small file reads.
26949 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26950 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26951 the gaps in the store get very large.
26954 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26955 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26957 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26958 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26961 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26962 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26963 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26964 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26965 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26966 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26968 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26969 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26970 free speech on the Internet.
26972 o Major features, client performance:
26973 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26974 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26975 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26976 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26977 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26978 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26979 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26980 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26981 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26982 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26983 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26984 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26985 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26986 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26987 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26989 o Major features, client functionality:
26990 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26991 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26992 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26993 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26994 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26995 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26996 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26997 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26998 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26999 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
27000 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
27001 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
27002 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
27004 o Major features, servers:
27005 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
27006 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
27007 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
27008 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
27009 authenticated, so use with care.
27010 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
27011 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
27012 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
27014 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
27015 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
27016 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
27017 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
27018 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
27019 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
27021 o Improvements on DNS support:
27022 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
27023 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
27024 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
27025 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
27026 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
27027 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
27028 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
27029 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
27030 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
27031 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
27032 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
27033 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
27034 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
27035 lets you turn it off.
27036 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
27037 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
27038 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
27039 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
27040 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
27041 useful to the network.
27042 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
27043 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
27044 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
27045 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
27046 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
27047 our tests for DNS hijacking.
27049 o Improvements on reachability testing:
27050 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
27051 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
27052 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
27053 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
27054 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
27055 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
27056 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
27057 if their identity keys are as expected.
27058 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
27059 chews through many circuits before giving up.
27060 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
27061 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
27062 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
27063 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
27064 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
27065 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
27066 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
27067 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
27068 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
27069 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
27070 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
27071 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
27073 o Improvements on rate limiting:
27074 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
27075 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
27076 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
27077 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
27078 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
27080 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
27081 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
27082 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
27083 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
27084 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
27085 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
27086 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
27087 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
27089 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
27090 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
27092 o Major features, NT services:
27093 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
27094 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
27095 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
27096 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
27097 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
27098 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
27099 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
27101 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
27102 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
27103 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
27105 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
27106 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
27107 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
27109 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
27110 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
27112 o Directory authority improvements:
27113 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
27115 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
27116 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
27117 too much load to the exit nodes.
27118 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
27119 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
27120 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
27121 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
27122 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
27123 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
27124 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
27125 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
27126 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
27127 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
27128 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
27129 broken. Not used yet.
27130 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
27131 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
27132 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
27133 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
27134 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
27135 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
27136 non-versioning dirservers.
27137 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
27138 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
27139 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
27141 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
27142 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
27143 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
27144 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
27146 o Directory mirrors and clients:
27147 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
27148 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
27149 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
27150 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
27151 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
27152 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
27153 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
27154 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
27155 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
27156 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
27157 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
27158 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
27159 routers for even longer.
27160 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
27161 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
27162 caching HTTP proxies.
27163 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
27164 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
27165 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
27166 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
27168 o Major fixes, crashes:
27169 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
27170 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
27171 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
27172 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
27174 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
27175 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
27176 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
27177 stream is detached.
27178 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
27179 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
27180 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
27181 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
27182 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
27183 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
27184 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
27185 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
27186 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
27187 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
27189 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
27190 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
27191 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
27192 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
27193 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
27194 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
27195 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
27196 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27197 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27198 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27199 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27200 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27201 could return an unnamed server instead.
27202 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27203 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27204 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27205 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27206 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27207 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27208 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27210 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27211 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27213 o Major fixes, other:
27214 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27215 uptime in the descriptor.
27216 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27217 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27218 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27219 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27220 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27221 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27222 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27223 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27224 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27225 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27226 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27227 our DirPort now, etc.
27228 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27229 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27230 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27232 o New config options or behaviors:
27233 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27234 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27235 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27236 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27237 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27238 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27239 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27240 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27241 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27242 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27243 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27244 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27246 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27247 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27248 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
27249 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27250 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27252 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27253 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27254 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27255 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27256 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27257 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27258 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
27259 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
27260 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27261 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27262 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27263 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27264 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
27265 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27266 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27267 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27268 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27269 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27270 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27271 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27272 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27273 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27274 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27275 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27276 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27277 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27278 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27279 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27280 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27281 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27283 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27284 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27285 your ORPort is set.
27288 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27289 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
27291 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27292 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27293 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27294 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27296 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
27297 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27298 whether the config options are bad or good.
27299 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27300 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27301 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27302 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27303 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27304 result more than once.
27305 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27306 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27307 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27308 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27309 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27310 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27311 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27312 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27313 before we check for libevent.
27314 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
27315 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27316 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27317 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27318 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27319 recommendation system saner.)
27320 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
27321 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27322 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27323 now universal binaries.
27324 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27325 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27327 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
27329 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27330 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27331 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27332 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27333 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
27334 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
27336 o Minor features, controller:
27337 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27338 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27339 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27341 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27342 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27343 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27344 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27345 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27346 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27347 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27349 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27350 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27351 connected or resolved cell.
27352 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27353 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27354 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27355 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27356 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
27357 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27358 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27360 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27361 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27362 entry guard status as it changes.
27363 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27364 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27365 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27366 watching for STREAM events.
27367 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27368 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27369 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27370 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27372 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27373 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27374 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27375 working much like those for circuit events.
27376 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27377 about the current status of a router.
27378 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27379 a router's status has changed.
27380 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27381 can tell which events and features are supported.
27382 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27383 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27384 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27385 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27386 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27387 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27388 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27389 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27390 for more information.
27391 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27392 best guess to the user.
27393 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27394 descriptor has changed.
27395 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27396 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27397 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27399 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
27400 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27401 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27402 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27403 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
27404 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27405 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27406 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
27407 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27408 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27409 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
27411 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27412 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27414 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27415 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27416 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27418 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27419 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27420 the controller from learning about current events.
27421 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27422 reported by Mike Perry.
27423 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27424 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27425 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27426 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27427 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27428 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27429 long nicknames where appropriate.
27430 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27431 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27433 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27434 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27435 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
27436 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
27437 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27439 o Minor features, code performance:
27440 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27441 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27442 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27444 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27445 some profiles, but not others.)
27446 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27447 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27448 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27449 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27450 operations, for profiling.
27451 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27452 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27453 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27454 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27455 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27456 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27457 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27458 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27460 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
27461 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27462 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27463 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27464 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27465 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27466 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27467 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27468 family lists conveniently.
27470 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
27471 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27472 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27473 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27474 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
27475 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27476 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27477 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27478 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27479 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27480 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27481 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27482 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27483 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27484 of it), is not therefore "up".
27486 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27487 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27488 what version a router is running.
27489 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27490 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27491 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27492 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27494 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27495 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27496 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27497 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27498 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27501 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27502 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27503 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27505 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27506 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27508 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27509 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27510 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27511 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27512 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27513 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27514 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27515 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27516 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27517 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27519 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27520 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27521 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27522 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27523 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27524 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27525 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27526 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27527 get one we don't recognize.
27530 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27531 o Security bugfixes:
27532 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27533 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27534 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27535 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27539 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27540 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27541 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27544 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27546 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27547 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27548 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27549 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27550 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27551 its circuits on demand.
27552 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27553 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27554 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27555 connections more stable on average.
27556 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27557 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27558 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27560 o Security bugfixes:
27561 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27562 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27565 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27567 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27568 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27569 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27570 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27571 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27572 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27573 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27574 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27577 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27579 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27580 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27581 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27582 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27583 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27584 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27585 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27586 it can't resolve its hostname.
27587 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27588 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27589 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27592 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27593 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27594 "extendcircuit" request.
27595 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27596 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27597 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27598 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27600 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27601 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27602 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27604 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27605 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27606 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27607 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27608 we don't recognize.
27611 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27613 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27614 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27615 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27616 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27617 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27618 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27619 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27620 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27621 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27624 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27625 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27626 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27627 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27628 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27630 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27631 own server descriptor yet.
27634 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27636 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27637 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27638 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27639 make sure to test via one of these.
27640 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27641 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27642 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27643 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27644 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27646 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27647 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27648 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27651 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27652 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27653 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27654 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27655 directory authority.
27656 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27657 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27658 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27659 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27662 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27663 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27664 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27666 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27667 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27668 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27669 current guards when picking a new guard.
27670 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27671 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27672 when we had more than one pending.
27673 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27674 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27675 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27676 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27677 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27678 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27679 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27680 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27681 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27682 debug the reachability problems better.
27684 o Log / documentation fixes:
27685 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27686 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27687 about protocol violations by others.
27688 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27689 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27690 about what happened to our old torrc.
27693 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27694 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27695 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27696 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27697 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27698 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27700 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27701 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27702 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27703 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27704 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27705 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27706 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27707 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27708 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27709 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27710 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27711 on malicious huge inputs.
27713 o Security fixes, major:
27714 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27715 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27716 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27717 misreading their logs.
27718 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27719 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27720 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27721 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27722 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27723 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27724 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27725 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27726 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27727 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27728 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27729 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27730 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27731 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27733 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27734 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27735 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27736 firewall options forbid.
27737 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27738 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27739 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27740 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27741 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27742 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27744 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27745 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27746 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27747 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27748 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27749 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27750 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27751 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27752 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27753 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27754 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27755 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27756 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27758 o Security fixes, minor:
27759 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27760 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27762 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27763 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27764 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27765 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27766 if we've not heard of a server.
27767 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27768 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27769 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27770 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27771 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27772 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27773 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27774 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27775 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27776 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27777 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27778 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27779 aids some statistical attacks.
27780 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27781 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27782 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27783 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27784 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27785 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27786 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27787 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27790 o Packaging improvements:
27791 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27792 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27793 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27794 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27795 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27796 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27798 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27799 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27800 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27801 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27802 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27803 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27805 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27806 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27807 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27809 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27810 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27811 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27812 They are useless now.
27813 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27814 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27815 is reachable by you.
27816 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27819 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27820 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27821 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27822 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27823 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27824 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27825 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27826 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27827 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27828 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27829 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27830 and isolating attacks better.
27831 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27832 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27833 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27834 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27835 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27836 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27837 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27838 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27839 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27840 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27841 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27843 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27844 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27845 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27846 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27847 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27848 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27849 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27850 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27851 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27852 for clients and for servers.
27853 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27854 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27855 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27856 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27857 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27858 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27859 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27860 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27861 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27862 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27863 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27865 o Other directory improvements:
27866 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27867 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27868 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27869 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27870 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27871 to hang up on them.
27872 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27873 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27874 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27875 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27876 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27877 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27879 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27880 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27881 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27882 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27883 connections more reliable.
27884 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27885 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27886 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27887 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27888 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27889 we fail to connect).
27890 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27892 o Controller protocol improvements:
27893 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27894 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27895 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27896 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27897 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27898 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27899 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27900 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27901 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27902 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27903 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27904 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27905 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27906 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27907 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27908 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27909 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27910 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27911 or "signal reload".
27912 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27913 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27914 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27915 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27916 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27917 a router in its role as directory authority.
27918 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27919 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27920 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27921 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27922 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27923 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27924 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27925 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27926 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27927 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27928 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27929 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27930 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27931 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27932 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27933 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27934 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27935 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27937 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27938 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27939 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27940 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27941 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27942 just tell them to go read their logs.
27944 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27945 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27946 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27947 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27948 try to be a bit more fair.
27949 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27950 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27951 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27952 and we're using a default DirPort.
27953 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27954 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27955 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27956 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27957 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27958 services faster on the service end.
27959 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27961 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27962 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27963 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27964 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27965 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27966 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27967 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27968 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27969 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27970 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27971 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27972 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27973 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27974 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27975 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27976 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27977 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27978 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27979 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27980 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27981 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27982 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27983 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27984 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27985 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27987 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27988 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27989 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27990 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27991 so we can be backward-compatible.
27992 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27993 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27994 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27995 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27996 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27997 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27998 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27999 initial descriptor forever.
28000 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
28001 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
28002 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
28003 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
28004 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
28005 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
28006 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
28007 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
28008 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
28009 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
28010 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
28011 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
28012 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
28013 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
28014 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
28015 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
28016 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
28017 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
28018 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
28019 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
28020 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
28021 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
28022 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
28023 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
28024 ports that have changed.
28025 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
28026 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
28027 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
28028 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
28029 connections once a week.
28030 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
28031 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
28032 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
28033 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
28034 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
28035 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
28036 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
28037 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
28038 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
28039 able to discover them.
28040 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
28041 want to make it an NT service.
28042 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
28043 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
28044 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
28045 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
28046 memory leaks better.
28047 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
28048 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
28049 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
28050 statistics are now uint64_t's.
28051 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
28052 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
28053 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
28054 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
28055 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
28056 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
28057 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
28058 default ulimit -n is 1024.
28059 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
28060 and its existence is confusing some users.
28062 o Config option fixes:
28063 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
28064 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
28065 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
28066 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
28067 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
28068 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
28069 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
28070 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
28071 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
28073 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
28074 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
28075 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
28076 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
28077 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
28078 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
28079 it would silently ignore the 6668.
28080 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
28081 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
28082 silently resetting it to its default.
28083 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
28084 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
28085 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
28086 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
28087 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
28088 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
28089 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
28090 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28091 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28092 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
28093 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
28094 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
28095 Address config option.
28096 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
28097 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
28099 o Config option features:
28100 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
28101 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
28102 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
28103 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
28104 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
28106 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
28107 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
28108 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
28109 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
28110 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
28111 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
28112 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
28113 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
28114 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
28115 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
28116 in at least some cases.)
28117 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
28118 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
28119 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
28120 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
28121 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
28122 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
28123 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
28124 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
28125 even if we know they're jerks.
28126 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
28127 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
28128 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
28129 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
28130 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
28131 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
28132 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
28133 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
28134 because older Tors do not understand it.
28135 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
28136 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
28137 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
28138 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
28139 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
28140 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
28141 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
28142 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
28143 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
28144 unattached before we fail it?
28145 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
28146 at least this many seconds ago.
28147 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
28148 at least this many seconds ago.
28149 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
28150 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
28152 o Improved and clearer log messages:
28153 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
28154 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
28155 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
28157 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
28158 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
28159 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
28160 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
28161 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
28162 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
28163 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
28164 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
28165 temporarily unreachable.
28166 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
28167 Windows-style errno back.
28168 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
28169 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
28171 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
28172 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
28173 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
28174 exactly for this case.
28175 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
28176 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
28177 don't warn twice about the same name.
28178 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
28180 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
28181 it was self-testing that told us so.
28182 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
28183 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
28184 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
28185 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
28186 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
28187 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
28188 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
28189 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
28190 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
28191 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
28192 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
28193 established a circuit.
28194 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
28195 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
28196 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28197 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28198 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28199 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28200 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28201 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28202 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28203 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28204 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28205 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
28206 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
28207 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28208 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28209 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28210 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28211 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28212 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28213 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28214 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28215 testing for reachability.
28216 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28217 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28219 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
28222 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28223 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28224 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28225 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28227 o Other important bugfixes:
28228 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28229 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28230 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28231 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28233 o Backported features:
28234 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28235 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28236 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28237 without getting overloaded.
28238 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28239 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28240 503's whenever they feel busy.
28241 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28242 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28243 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28244 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28245 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28248 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28249 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28250 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28251 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28252 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28253 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28254 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28255 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28257 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28258 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28259 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28260 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28261 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28262 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28263 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28264 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28265 rendezvous circuits.
28266 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28268 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28269 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28270 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28271 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28272 advertising it because of hibernation.
28273 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28274 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
28275 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28276 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28277 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28278 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28279 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28280 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28281 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28282 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28283 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28284 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28285 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28286 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28287 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28290 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28291 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28292 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28293 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28294 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28295 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28296 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28297 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28298 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28299 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28300 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28301 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28302 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28303 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28304 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28307 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28308 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28309 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28311 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28312 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28315 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28316 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28317 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28318 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28319 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28320 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28321 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28323 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28324 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28328 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28329 o New directory servers:
28330 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28332 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28333 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28334 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28335 pthreads libraries.
28336 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28337 claims its dirport is 0.
28338 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28339 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28343 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28344 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28345 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28346 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28347 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28348 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28349 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28350 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28353 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28355 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
28356 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
28357 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
28358 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
28359 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28360 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
28361 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
28362 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28363 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
28365 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28366 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28368 o Assert / crash bugs:
28369 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28370 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28371 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28373 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28374 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28375 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28376 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
28377 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
28380 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
28381 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
28382 duplicate ram over time.
28383 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
28384 reentry and threadsafeness.
28385 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28386 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
28387 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
28389 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28390 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28391 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28392 point at your Tor server.
28393 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
28395 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
28396 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28399 o Protocol correctness:
28400 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28401 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28402 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28403 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
28404 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28405 to abandon partially built circuits.
28406 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28407 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28408 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28409 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28410 descriptors we just dropped.
28411 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28412 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
28413 and to take errno into account where possible.
28414 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28415 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28416 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28417 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28419 o Robustness improvements:
28420 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28421 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
28422 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28424 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28425 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28426 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28427 that will want high uptime circuits.
28428 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28429 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28430 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28431 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28432 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
28433 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28434 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28435 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28436 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28437 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
28438 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
28439 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
28440 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
28441 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28442 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28443 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28444 for google.com" problem.
28445 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28446 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28447 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28448 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28449 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28452 o Reachability testing.
28453 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
28454 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
28455 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
28456 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
28457 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28458 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28459 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28460 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
28461 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
28462 already connected to them.
28463 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
28467 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28468 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28469 nickname+key are allowed.
28470 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28471 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28472 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28473 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28474 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28475 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28476 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28477 have quite wrong clocks).
28478 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28479 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28480 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28481 their descriptors are being rejected.
28483 o Efficiency improvements:
28484 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28485 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28486 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28487 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28488 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28489 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28490 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28491 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28492 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28493 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28495 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28496 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28497 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28498 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28499 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28500 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28501 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28502 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28503 of CPU time plus memory.
28504 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28505 directory every time you regenerate it.
28506 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28507 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28508 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28509 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28510 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28511 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28512 lowercase when you first see them.
28515 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28516 hidden services better.
28517 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28518 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28519 when we try to launch one.
28520 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28521 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28522 attempts to build a circuit.
28523 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28524 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28525 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28526 normal web requests.
28529 - More Tor controller support. See
28530 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28531 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28532 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28533 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28534 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28535 to make it easier to write controllers.
28536 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28537 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28538 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28539 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28540 new log event types.
28542 o New config options/defaults:
28543 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28544 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28545 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28546 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28547 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28549 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28551 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28552 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28553 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28554 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28555 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28557 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28558 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28559 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28560 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28561 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28562 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28563 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28564 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28565 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28566 required exit node for certain sites.
28567 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28568 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28569 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28570 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28571 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28572 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28573 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28574 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28575 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28577 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28578 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28579 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28580 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28581 private-IP addresses.
28582 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28583 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28584 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28585 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28586 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28587 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28588 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28589 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28591 o Logging improvements:
28592 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28593 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28594 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28595 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28597 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28598 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28599 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28600 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28601 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28602 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28603 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28604 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28605 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28607 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28609 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28610 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28611 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28612 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28613 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28614 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28616 o New contrib scripts:
28617 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28618 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28620 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28621 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28622 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28623 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28624 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28625 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28627 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28628 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28629 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28630 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28634 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28635 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28636 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28637 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28638 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28639 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28640 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28642 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28643 something more reasonable when first installing.
28644 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28645 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28646 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28647 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28649 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28650 artificially capped at 500kB.
28651 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28653 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28654 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28655 they could use instead.
28656 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28657 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28658 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28659 the user asks you to.
28662 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28663 rather than just rejecting it.
28664 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28665 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28666 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28667 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28668 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28669 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28670 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28671 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28672 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28673 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28674 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28675 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28677 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28678 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28679 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28680 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28682 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28683 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28685 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28686 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28687 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28688 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28690 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28691 whether the server is hibernating.
28694 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28695 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28696 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28697 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28698 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28702 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28703 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28704 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28705 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28706 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28709 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28710 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28711 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28712 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28713 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28714 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28715 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28718 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28719 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28720 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28721 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28722 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28723 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28724 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28725 creating actual system users.
28726 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28727 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28731 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28732 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28733 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28734 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28735 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28736 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28737 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28738 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28739 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28740 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28741 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28742 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28743 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28744 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28745 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28747 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28748 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28749 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28750 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28751 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28752 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28753 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28754 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28755 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28756 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28757 existing torrc files.
28758 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28761 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28762 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28763 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28764 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28765 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28766 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28767 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28768 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28769 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28770 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28771 file descriptors available.
28772 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28773 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28774 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28777 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28778 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28779 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28780 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28782 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28783 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28784 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28785 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28786 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28788 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28789 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28790 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28791 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28792 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28793 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28794 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28795 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28796 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28797 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28798 800kB/s of capacity.
28799 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28802 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28803 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28804 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28805 need as much processor time.
28806 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28807 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28808 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28809 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28810 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28811 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28812 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28813 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28814 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28815 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28816 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28817 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28819 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28820 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28821 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28822 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28823 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28824 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28825 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28828 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28829 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28830 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28832 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28833 style address, then we'd crash.
28834 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28835 a dirserver is broken.
28836 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28838 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28839 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28840 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28842 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28843 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28844 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28845 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28846 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28847 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28849 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28850 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28851 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28853 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28855 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28856 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28857 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28858 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28859 values at once couldn't work.
28860 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28861 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28862 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28863 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28864 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28865 they can handle any number of routers.
28866 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28867 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28868 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28869 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28870 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28871 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28872 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28873 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28874 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28877 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28878 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28879 - Make hibernation actually work.
28880 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28881 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28882 don't use the stream status code.
28885 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28886 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28887 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28888 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28889 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28890 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28891 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28892 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28893 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28894 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28895 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28896 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28899 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28900 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28901 win32 socket errors better.
28902 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28903 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28904 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28905 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28907 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28909 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28910 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28911 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28912 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28913 right after sending the begin cell.
28914 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28915 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28916 exit nodes too. Oops.
28917 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28918 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28919 the user would get no response.
28920 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28921 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28922 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28924 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28925 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28926 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28927 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28928 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28930 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28931 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28932 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28933 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28934 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28935 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28936 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28937 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28938 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28939 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28940 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28942 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28943 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28944 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28945 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28946 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28947 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28948 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28949 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28950 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28951 so we don't see those messages days later.
28952 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28953 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28955 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28956 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28957 they ran out of file descriptors.
28958 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28959 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28960 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28961 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28963 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28964 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28965 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28966 the ones we find in directories.)
28967 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28968 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28969 if you don't want it open.
28970 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28971 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28972 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28973 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28974 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28975 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28977 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28978 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28980 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28982 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28983 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28985 o Features (circuits and streams):
28986 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28987 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28988 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28989 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28990 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28991 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28992 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28993 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28994 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28995 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28996 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28997 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28998 from Geoff Goodell.
28999 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
29001 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
29002 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
29003 to fill the last cell completely.
29004 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
29005 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
29007 o Features (bandwidth):
29008 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
29009 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
29010 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
29011 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
29012 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
29013 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
29014 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
29015 your billing cycle starts on.
29016 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
29017 hibernation properties by
29018 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
29019 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
29020 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
29021 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
29022 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
29024 o Features (directories):
29025 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
29026 nickname to its identity key.
29027 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
29028 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
29029 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
29030 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
29031 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
29033 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
29034 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
29036 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
29037 will be able to get a directory.
29038 - Http proxy support
29039 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
29040 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
29041 be routed through this host.
29042 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
29043 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
29044 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
29045 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
29046 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
29047 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
29049 o Features (packages and install):
29050 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
29051 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
29052 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
29053 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
29054 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
29055 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
29056 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
29057 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
29058 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
29059 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
29062 o Features (ui controller):
29063 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
29064 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
29065 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
29066 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
29067 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
29068 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
29069 with the control port.
29070 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
29071 use in authenticating to the control interface.
29072 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
29073 configuration to torrc.
29074 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
29075 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
29076 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
29078 o Features (config and command-line):
29079 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
29080 not on the command line.
29081 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
29083 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
29084 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
29085 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
29086 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
29087 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
29088 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
29089 - New log format in config:
29090 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
29091 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
29092 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
29093 from their dirserver.
29094 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
29096 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
29097 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
29098 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
29099 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
29100 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
29101 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
29102 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
29103 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
29104 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
29105 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
29106 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
29107 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
29108 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
29109 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
29110 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
29111 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
29112 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
29113 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
29114 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
29115 than once per minute.
29117 o Features (other):
29118 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
29119 get back to normal.)
29120 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
29121 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
29122 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
29123 log more informatively.
29124 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
29125 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
29126 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
29127 from each other, to hinder linkability.
29128 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
29129 them act more like real nodes.
29130 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
29131 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
29132 1024) file descriptors.
29133 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
29136 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
29138 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
29139 clients/servers with an open dirport.
29140 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
29141 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
29142 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
29143 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
29144 intermittent connections.
29145 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
29146 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
29148 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
29149 in reporting stats locally.
29150 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
29151 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
29152 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
29155 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
29157 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
29158 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
29159 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
29160 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
29161 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
29162 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
29163 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
29164 list to decide who's running.
29165 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
29166 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
29167 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
29168 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
29169 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
29170 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
29171 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
29172 for pointing out this bug.)
29173 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
29175 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
29176 don't put it into the client dns cache.
29177 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
29178 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
29179 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
29181 o Protocol changes:
29182 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
29183 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
29184 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
29185 hadn't heard of before.
29188 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
29189 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
29190 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
29191 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
29192 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
29193 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
29194 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
29195 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
29196 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29197 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29198 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29199 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29200 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29201 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29202 - Directory caching.
29203 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29204 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29205 directory they've pulled down.
29206 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29207 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29208 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29209 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29210 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29211 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29212 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29214 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29215 This isn't used yet.
29216 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29217 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29218 clients don't use this yet.)
29219 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29220 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29221 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
29222 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29223 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29224 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29225 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29226 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29227 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29228 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29229 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29230 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29231 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29232 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29233 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29234 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29235 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29236 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29237 - File and name management:
29238 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29239 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29241 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29242 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29243 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29244 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29245 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29246 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29247 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29249 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29250 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29251 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29253 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29254 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29255 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29256 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29257 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29258 - New docs in the tarball:
29260 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29261 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29262 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29263 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29264 know you might want to get it verified.
29265 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29266 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29267 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29268 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29269 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29270 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29271 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29272 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29273 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29275 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29277 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29278 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29280 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29281 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29282 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29285 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29286 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29287 ask them to resolve the host "".
29290 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29291 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29292 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29295 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29296 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29297 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29300 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29301 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29302 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29303 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29305 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29306 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29307 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29309 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29310 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29311 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29312 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29313 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29314 o Fixes for security bugs:
29315 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29316 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29317 a trusted dirserver.
29319 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29320 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29321 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29322 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29323 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29324 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29325 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29326 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29327 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29328 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29330 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29331 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29332 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29333 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29334 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29335 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29337 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29340 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29341 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29342 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29343 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29344 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29345 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29346 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29347 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29348 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29349 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29350 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29351 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29352 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29353 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
29356 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29357 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29358 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29359 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29362 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29363 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29364 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29365 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29366 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29367 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29368 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29372 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29374 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29375 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29376 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29377 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29378 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29379 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29380 if you decrypted them correctly.
29381 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29382 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
29383 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29384 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29385 in-memory directories too.
29386 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29387 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29388 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29389 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29390 just close the circ.
29391 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29392 - Better debugging for tls errors
29393 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29394 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29396 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
29397 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29398 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29399 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29400 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29401 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29402 it tells you about the first error.
29403 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29404 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29405 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
29406 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29407 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29408 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29409 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29410 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29411 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
29412 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29414 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
29415 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
29418 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29419 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29421 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29422 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29423 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29424 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29425 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29426 expect it to have a nickname.
29427 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29428 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29429 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29430 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29431 the dns farm to do it.
29432 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29433 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29435 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29436 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29437 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29438 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29439 but that aren't warnings
29442 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29443 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29447 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29448 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29449 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29450 - include missing header fcntl.h
29451 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29452 - deal with hardware word alignment
29453 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29454 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29455 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29456 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29457 by kill -USR1 currently.
29458 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29459 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29460 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29463 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29464 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29465 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29468 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29470 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29471 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29472 - And fix a few endian issues.
29475 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29477 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29478 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29479 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29480 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29481 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29482 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29483 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29484 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29486 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29487 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29488 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29490 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29492 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29493 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29494 side isn't reading right then.
29495 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29496 RecommendedVersions
29497 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29498 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29499 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29502 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29504 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29505 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29508 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29512 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29514 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29515 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29516 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29517 connection is finished.
29518 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29519 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29520 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29521 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29522 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29523 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29524 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29525 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29526 rather than warn and continue.
29527 - Make --version work
29528 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29531 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29533 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29534 knows it's working.
29535 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29536 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29538 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29539 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29540 so you can collect coredumps there.
29542 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29543 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29544 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29545 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29546 dns cache actually gets populated.
29547 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29548 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29549 end cell down it first.
29550 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29551 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29554 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29556 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29557 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29559 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29560 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29561 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29562 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29563 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29564 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29566 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29568 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29569 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29570 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29571 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29572 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29573 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29575 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29576 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29579 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29581 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29582 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29583 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29584 tor. It even has a man page.
29585 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29586 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29587 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29588 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29590 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29592 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29595 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29597 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29598 it, apt-getters. :)
29599 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29600 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29601 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29602 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29603 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29604 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29605 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29606 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29607 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29608 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29609 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29611 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29612 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29615 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29617 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29618 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29621 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29623 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29624 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29625 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29626 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29627 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29628 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29629 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29630 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29631 logfile so you know it's working.
29632 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29633 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29636 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29638 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29639 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29640 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29643 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29645 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29646 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29647 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29650 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29651 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29652 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29654 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29655 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29657 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29658 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29659 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29661 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29662 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29666 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29668 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29669 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29670 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29673 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29674 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29675 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29676 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29677 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29678 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29679 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29680 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29681 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29682 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29684 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29687 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29688 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29689 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29690 really screw things up.
29691 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29693 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29694 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29696 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29697 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29698 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29699 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29700 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29701 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29704 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29707 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29708 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29709 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29711 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29714 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29715 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29716 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29717 - to get ownership/permissions right
29718 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29719 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29720 pull down a directory again
29721 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29722 causing server crashes
29723 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29724 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29725 - exit if bind() fails
29726 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29727 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29728 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29729 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29730 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29733 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29735 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29736 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29738 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29739 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29740 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29741 exists, rather than failing
29742 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29743 which AP connections are standing by
29744 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29745 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29746 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29748 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29749 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29752 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29753 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29755 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29756 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29757 - Reloads config on HUP
29758 - Usage info on -h or --help
29759 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29761 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29762 o General stability:
29763 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29764 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29765 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29766 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29767 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29768 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29769 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29772 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29773 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29775 o Autoconf improvements:
29776 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29777 - Make install now works
29778 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29779 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29780 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29782 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29783 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29784 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29785 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup