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 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
6 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
7 among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
8 available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
11 o Major feature (denial of service):
12 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
13 Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
14 onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
16 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
17 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
18 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
19 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
20 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
21 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
23 o Major features (conflux):
24 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
25 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
26 circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
27 pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
28 circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
29 the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
30 throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
31 Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
32 when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
33 latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
34 arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
35 protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
37 o Major features (dirauth):
38 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
39 authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
40 upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
41 the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
42 consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
43 address. Implements ticket 40705.
45 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
46 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
47 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
48 log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
51 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
52 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
53 between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
54 set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
55 last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
56 to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
58 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
59 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
60 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
62 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
63 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
64 Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
65 list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
66 wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
67 make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
69 o Minor features (bridge):
70 - warn when a bridge is also configure to be an exit relay.
73 o Minor features (geoip data):
74 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
75 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
77 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
78 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
80 o Minor features (testing):
81 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
82 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
83 run as part of GitLab CI.
86 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
88 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
89 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
90 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
92 o Minor feature (compilation):
93 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
94 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
97 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
98 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
99 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
100 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
102 o Minor feature (lzma):
103 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
105 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
106 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
109 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
110 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
111 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
113 o Minor features (directory authorities):
114 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
115 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
116 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
117 Implements ticket 40753.
119 o Minor features (directory authority):
120 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
121 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
122 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
123 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
124 40130; implements proposal 275.
126 o Minor features (network documents):
127 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
128 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
129 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
130 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
132 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
133 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
135 o Minor features (geoip data):
136 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
137 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
139 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
140 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
141 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
142 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
144 o Minor features (metrics):
145 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
146 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
147 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
148 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
150 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
151 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
152 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
154 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
155 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
156 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
158 o Minor features (relay):
159 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
160 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
162 o Minor features (relays):
163 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
164 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
165 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
166 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
168 o Minor features (tests):
169 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
170 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
173 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
176 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
177 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
178 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
180 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
181 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
182 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
183 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
184 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
187 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
188 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
189 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
191 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
192 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
193 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
195 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
196 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
197 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
198 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
199 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
200 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
201 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
202 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
203 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
205 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
206 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
207 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
208 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
210 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
211 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
212 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
213 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
214 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
215 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
216 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
217 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
219 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
220 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
221 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
222 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
223 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
224 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
226 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
227 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
230 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
231 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
232 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
233 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
234 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
235 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
237 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
238 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
239 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
241 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
242 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
243 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
244 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
245 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
247 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
248 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
249 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
251 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
252 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
253 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
254 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
256 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
257 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
258 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
260 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
261 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
262 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
264 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
265 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
266 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
267 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
268 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
269 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
270 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
271 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
273 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
274 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
275 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
276 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
279 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
280 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
281 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
284 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
285 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
286 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
287 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
288 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
289 congestion control fix detailed below.
291 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
292 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
293 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
294 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
295 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
296 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
297 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
299 o Major bugfixes (relay):
300 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
301 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
302 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
303 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
304 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
305 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
308 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
309 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
310 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
311 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
312 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
314 o Minor feature (authority):
315 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
317 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
318 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
320 o Minor features (geoip data):
321 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
322 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
324 o Minor features (relays):
325 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
326 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
327 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
328 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
331 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
332 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
333 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
335 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
336 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
337 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
338 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
340 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
341 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
342 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
343 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
346 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
347 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
348 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
349 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
352 o Major bugfixes (relay):
353 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
354 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
355 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
356 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
357 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
358 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
361 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
362 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
363 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
364 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
365 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
367 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
368 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
370 o Minor features (geoip data):
371 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
372 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
375 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
376 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
377 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
380 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
381 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
382 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
383 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
384 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
386 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
387 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
390 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
391 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
393 o Minor features (geoip data):
394 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
395 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
397 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
398 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
399 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
402 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
403 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
404 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
405 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
407 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
408 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
410 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
411 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
412 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
414 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
415 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
416 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
417 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
418 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
420 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
421 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
422 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
423 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
424 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
427 o Major bugfixes (relay):
428 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
429 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
431 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
432 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
434 o Minor features (geoip data):
435 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
436 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
439 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
440 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
441 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
442 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
445 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
446 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
448 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
449 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
450 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
451 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
453 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
454 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
455 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
456 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
457 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
459 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
460 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
461 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
462 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
463 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
465 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
466 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
467 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
468 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
469 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
472 o Major bugfixes (relay):
473 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
474 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
476 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
477 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
478 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
479 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
480 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
481 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
483 o Minor feature (metrics):
484 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
487 o Minor feature (performance):
488 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
489 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
490 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
492 o Minor feature (relay):
493 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
495 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
496 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
497 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
498 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
500 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
501 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
502 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
503 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
504 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
506 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
507 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
508 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
509 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
510 are currently opened and how many were created.
511 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
512 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
513 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
514 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
515 - Related to ticket 40194.
517 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
518 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
520 o Minor features (geoip data):
521 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
522 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
524 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
525 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
526 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
528 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
529 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
530 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
531 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
532 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
533 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
534 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
535 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
536 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
537 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
538 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
540 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
541 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
542 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
545 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
546 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
547 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
550 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
551 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
552 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
553 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
554 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
555 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
556 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
558 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
559 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
560 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
563 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
564 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
565 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
566 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
569 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
570 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
571 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
572 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
573 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
576 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
577 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
578 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
579 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
582 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
583 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
584 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
585 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
586 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
589 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
590 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
591 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
592 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
595 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
596 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
597 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
598 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
599 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
602 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
603 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
604 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
605 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
606 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
609 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
610 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
612 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
613 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
614 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
615 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
616 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
617 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
618 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
619 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
620 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
623 o Major bugfixes (relay):
624 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
625 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
626 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
627 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
628 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
629 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
630 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
632 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
633 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
634 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
635 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
636 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
639 o Minor features (dirauth):
640 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
641 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
642 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
643 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
644 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
645 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
646 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
647 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
650 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
651 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
653 o Minor features (geoip data):
654 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
655 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
657 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
658 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
659 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
660 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
661 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
662 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
663 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
665 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
666 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
667 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
668 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
669 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
671 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
672 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
673 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
674 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
677 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
678 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
679 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
680 stability or safety purposes.
682 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
683 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
684 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
686 o Major bugfixes (relay):
687 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
688 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
689 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
690 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
691 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
692 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
693 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
695 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
696 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
698 o Minor features (geoip data):
699 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
700 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
702 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
703 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
704 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
706 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
707 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
708 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
709 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
710 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
711 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
713 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
714 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
715 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
716 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
717 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
719 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
720 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
721 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
722 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
724 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
725 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
726 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
727 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
728 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
730 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
731 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
732 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
734 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
735 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
736 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
737 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
738 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
739 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
741 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
742 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
743 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
744 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
747 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
748 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
749 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
750 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
751 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
753 o Major bugfixes (relay):
754 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
755 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
756 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
757 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
758 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
759 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
760 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
762 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
763 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
765 o Minor features (geoip data):
766 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
767 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
769 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
770 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
771 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
773 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
774 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
775 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
776 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
777 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
778 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
780 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
781 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
782 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
783 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
784 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
786 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
787 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
788 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
789 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
791 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
792 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
793 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
794 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
795 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
797 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
798 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
799 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
801 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
802 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
803 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
804 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
805 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
806 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
808 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
809 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
810 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
811 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
814 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
815 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
816 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
817 should upgrade to this version.
819 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
820 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
821 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
822 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
823 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
824 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
826 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
827 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
829 o Minor features (geoip data):
830 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
831 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
833 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
834 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
835 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
836 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
838 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
839 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
840 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
841 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
842 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
843 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
844 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
845 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
846 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
848 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
849 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
850 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
853 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
854 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
855 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
856 including one massive new one: congestion control.
858 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
859 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
860 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
862 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
864 o Major features (congestion control):
865 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
866 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
868 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
869 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
870 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
871 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
873 o Major features (directory authority):
874 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
875 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
876 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
877 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
878 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
879 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
880 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
881 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
882 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
884 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
885 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
886 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
887 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
888 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
889 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
890 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
891 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
892 40363; implements proposal 333.
894 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
895 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
896 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
897 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
898 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
900 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
901 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
902 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
903 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
904 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
905 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
906 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
907 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
910 o Major bugfixes (client):
911 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
912 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
913 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
914 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
915 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
916 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
918 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
919 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
920 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
921 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
923 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
924 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
925 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
926 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
927 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
928 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
930 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
931 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
932 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
933 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
934 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
935 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
936 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
938 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
939 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
940 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
941 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
942 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
943 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
944 and not the DNS server itself.
945 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
946 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
947 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
948 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
949 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
950 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
951 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
953 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
954 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
955 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
956 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
959 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
960 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
961 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
962 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
964 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
965 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
967 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
968 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
969 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
972 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
973 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
974 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
975 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
977 o Minor features (compilation):
978 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
979 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
980 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
981 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
984 o Minor features (control port):
985 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
986 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
988 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
989 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
991 o Minor features (fuzzing):
992 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
993 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
994 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
996 o Minor features (geoip data):
997 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
998 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1000 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1001 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1002 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1003 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1004 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1005 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1006 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1008 o Minor features (portability):
1009 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1010 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1011 Closes ticket 40355.
1013 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1014 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1015 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1016 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1017 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1018 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1019 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1020 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1021 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1022 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1023 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1024 fix for ticket 40337.
1025 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1026 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1027 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1029 o Minor features (testing):
1030 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1031 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1034 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1035 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
1036 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1038 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1039 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1040 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1042 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1043 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1044 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1045 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1047 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1048 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1049 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1052 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1053 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1054 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1055 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1056 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1057 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1058 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1059 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1061 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1062 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1063 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1064 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1067 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1068 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1069 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1070 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1072 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1073 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1074 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1075 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1076 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1079 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1080 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1081 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1082 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1083 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1084 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1085 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1086 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1087 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1090 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1091 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1093 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1094 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
1095 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
1098 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1099 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1100 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1101 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1102 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1104 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1105 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1106 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1107 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1108 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1109 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1111 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1112 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1113 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1114 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1117 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1118 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1119 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1121 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1122 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1123 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1124 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1125 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1126 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1127 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1128 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1130 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1131 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1132 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1133 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1135 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1136 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1137 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1138 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1139 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1140 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1141 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1142 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1143 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1145 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1146 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1147 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1148 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1150 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1151 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1152 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1153 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1156 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1157 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1158 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1159 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1160 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1162 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1163 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1164 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1165 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1166 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1167 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1168 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1169 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1170 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1172 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1173 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1174 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1175 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1177 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1178 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1179 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1180 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1182 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1183 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1184 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1185 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1186 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1187 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1188 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1189 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1190 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1192 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1193 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1194 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1195 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1196 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1197 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1199 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1200 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1201 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1202 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1203 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1205 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1206 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1207 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1208 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1209 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1211 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1212 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1213 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1214 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1215 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1217 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1218 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1219 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1220 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1222 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1223 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1224 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1226 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1227 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1228 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1229 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1230 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1232 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1233 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1234 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1235 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1236 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1238 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1239 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1240 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1241 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1242 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1245 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1246 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1248 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1249 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1250 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1251 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1252 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1253 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1256 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1259 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1260 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1261 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1263 o Documentation (man, relay):
1264 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1265 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1267 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1268 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1269 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1273 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1274 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1275 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1277 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1278 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1280 o Minor features (geoip data):
1281 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1282 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1284 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1285 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1286 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1288 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1289 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1290 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1293 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1294 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1295 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1298 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1299 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1300 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1301 See below for more details.
1303 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1304 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1305 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1306 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1307 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1309 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1310 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1311 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1314 o Minor features (compilation):
1315 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1316 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1317 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1318 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1321 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1322 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1324 o Minor features (geoip data):
1325 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1326 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1328 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1329 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1330 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1331 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1332 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1334 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1335 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1336 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1337 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1338 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1340 o Documentation (man, relay):
1341 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1342 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1345 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1346 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1347 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1350 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1351 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1352 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1353 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1354 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1355 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1356 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1358 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1359 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1362 o Minor features (testing):
1363 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1364 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1365 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1366 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1367 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1368 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1369 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1370 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1371 fix for ticket 40337.
1372 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1373 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1374 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1376 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1377 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1378 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1379 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1380 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1381 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1382 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1383 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1385 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1386 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1387 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1389 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1390 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1391 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1392 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1393 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1396 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1397 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1398 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1399 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1400 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1401 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1404 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1405 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1406 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1407 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1408 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1409 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1410 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1413 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1414 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1415 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1416 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1417 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1419 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1420 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1421 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1422 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1424 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1425 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1426 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1427 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1429 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1430 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1433 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1434 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1435 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1436 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1437 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1439 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1440 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1441 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1442 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1443 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1444 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1445 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1446 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1447 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1448 fix for ticket 40337.
1449 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1450 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1451 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1453 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1454 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1455 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1457 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1458 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1459 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1460 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1461 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1462 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1464 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1465 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1466 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1467 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1468 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1471 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1472 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1473 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1474 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1475 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1477 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1478 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1479 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1480 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1481 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1482 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1485 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1486 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1487 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1488 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1489 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1490 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1491 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1494 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1495 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1496 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1497 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1498 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1500 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1501 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1502 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1503 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1505 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1506 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1507 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1508 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1510 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1511 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1514 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1515 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1516 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1517 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1518 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1522 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1523 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1524 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1525 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1526 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1528 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1529 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1530 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1531 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1532 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1533 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1534 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1537 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1538 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1540 o Minor features (geoip data):
1541 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1542 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1544 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1545 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1546 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1548 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1549 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1550 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1552 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1553 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1554 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1556 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1557 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1558 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1559 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1561 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1562 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1563 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1564 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1565 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1566 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1567 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1570 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1571 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1572 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1573 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1574 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1576 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1577 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1578 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1579 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1580 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1581 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1582 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1585 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1586 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1588 o Minor features (geoip data):
1589 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1590 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1592 o Minor features (testing):
1593 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1594 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1596 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1597 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1598 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1600 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1601 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1602 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1604 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1605 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1606 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1607 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1608 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1609 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1610 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1612 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1613 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1614 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1617 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1618 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1619 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1620 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1621 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1623 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1624 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1625 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1626 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1627 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1628 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1629 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1632 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1633 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1635 o Minor features (geoip data):
1636 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1637 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1639 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1640 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1641 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1643 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1644 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1645 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1648 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1649 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1650 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1651 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1652 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1654 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1655 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1656 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1657 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1658 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1659 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1661 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1662 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1663 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1667 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1668 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1669 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1670 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1671 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1674 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1675 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1676 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1677 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1679 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1680 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1682 o Major bugfixes (security):
1683 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1684 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1685 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1686 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1687 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1688 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1690 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1691 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1692 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1693 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1694 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1695 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1696 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1697 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1699 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1700 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1701 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1702 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1703 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1704 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1705 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1706 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1707 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1708 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1709 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1710 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1711 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1712 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1713 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1715 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1716 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1717 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1718 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1721 o Major features (directory authority):
1722 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1723 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1724 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1725 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1727 o Major features (metrics):
1728 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1729 documents. This information is controlled with the
1730 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1731 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1732 328; closes ticket 40222.
1734 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1735 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1736 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1738 o Major features (statistics):
1739 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1740 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1741 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1743 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1744 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1745 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1746 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1747 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1748 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1749 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1750 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1751 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1752 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1753 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1754 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1755 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1756 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1757 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1758 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1759 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1760 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1761 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1762 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1765 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1766 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1767 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1768 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1770 o Minor features (bridge):
1771 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1772 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1773 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1775 o Minor features (build system):
1776 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1777 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1778 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1780 o Minor features (client):
1781 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1782 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1783 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1784 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1786 o Minor features (command line):
1787 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1788 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1791 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1792 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1793 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1794 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1795 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1796 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1797 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1798 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1799 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1800 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1801 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1803 o Minor features (compatibility):
1804 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1805 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1806 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1809 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1810 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1811 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1813 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1814 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1815 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1816 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1817 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1818 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1819 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1821 o Minor features (geoip data):
1822 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1823 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1825 o Minor features (logging):
1826 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1827 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1829 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1830 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1831 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1832 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1833 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1834 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1836 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1837 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1838 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1839 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1840 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1842 o Minor features (onion services):
1843 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1844 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1846 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1847 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1848 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1849 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1850 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1852 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1853 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1854 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1856 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1857 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1858 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1861 o Minor features (vote document):
1862 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1863 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1864 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1866 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1867 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1868 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1869 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1871 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1872 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1873 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1874 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1877 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1878 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1879 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1880 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1882 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1883 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1884 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1885 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1886 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1888 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1889 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1890 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1891 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1892 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1893 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1896 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1897 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1898 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1899 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1900 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1901 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1903 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1904 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1905 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1906 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1907 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1909 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1910 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1911 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1912 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1913 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1915 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1916 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1917 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1919 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1920 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1921 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1924 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1925 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1926 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1927 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1929 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1930 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1931 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1932 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1934 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1935 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1936 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1939 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1940 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1941 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1942 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1945 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1946 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1947 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1948 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1949 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1950 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1951 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1952 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1953 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1954 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1957 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1958 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1959 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1961 o Documentation (manual):
1962 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1964 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1965 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1966 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1967 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1969 o Removed features (relay):
1970 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1971 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
1972 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
1973 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
1974 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
1977 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
1978 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
1979 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
1980 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
1981 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1983 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1984 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1985 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1986 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1987 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1988 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1989 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1991 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1992 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1993 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1994 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1995 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1996 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1997 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1998 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2000 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2001 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2002 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2003 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2004 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2005 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2006 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2007 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2008 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2009 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2010 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2011 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2012 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2013 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2014 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2016 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2017 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2018 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2019 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2022 o Minor features (geoip data):
2023 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2024 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2026 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2027 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2028 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2029 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2030 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2031 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2034 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2035 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2036 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2040 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2041 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2042 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2043 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2044 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2046 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2047 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2048 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2050 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2051 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2052 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2053 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2054 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2055 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2056 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2058 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2059 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2060 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2061 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2062 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2063 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2064 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2065 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2067 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2068 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2069 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2070 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2071 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2072 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2073 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2074 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2075 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2076 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2077 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2078 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2079 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2080 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2081 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2083 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2084 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2085 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2086 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2089 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2090 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2091 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2093 o Minor features (geoip data):
2094 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2095 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2097 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2098 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2099 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2100 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2102 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2103 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2104 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2107 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2108 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2109 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2110 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2111 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2113 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2114 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2115 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2116 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2117 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2118 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2119 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2121 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2122 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2123 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2124 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2125 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2126 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2127 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2128 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2130 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2131 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2132 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2133 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2134 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2135 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2136 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2137 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2138 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2139 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2140 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2141 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2142 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2143 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2144 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2146 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2147 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2148 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2150 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2151 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2152 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2153 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2156 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2157 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2158 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2160 o Minor features (geoip data):
2161 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2162 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2165 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2166 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2167 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2169 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2170 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2171 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2172 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2173 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2175 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2176 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2177 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2179 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2180 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2181 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2183 o Minor features (geoip data):
2184 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2185 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2187 o Minor features (onion services):
2188 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2189 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2190 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2192 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2193 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2194 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2195 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2197 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2198 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2199 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2200 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2202 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2203 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2204 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2205 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2207 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2208 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2209 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2211 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2212 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2213 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2214 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2216 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2217 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2218 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2219 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2221 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2222 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2223 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2227 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2228 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2229 in earlier versions of Tor.
2231 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2232 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2233 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2234 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2235 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2236 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2237 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2238 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2239 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2242 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2243 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2246 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2247 compatibility issue.
2249 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2250 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2251 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2252 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2253 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2254 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2255 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2256 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2257 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2260 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2261 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2262 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2263 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2264 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2265 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2266 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2267 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2270 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2271 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2272 Closes ticket 40309.
2275 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2276 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2277 in earlier versions of Tor.
2279 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2280 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2281 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2282 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2283 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2284 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2285 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2286 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2287 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2290 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2291 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2294 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2295 compatibility issue.
2297 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2298 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2299 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2300 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2301 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2302 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2303 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2304 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2305 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2308 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2309 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2310 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2311 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2312 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2313 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2314 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2315 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2318 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2319 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2320 Closes ticket 40309.
2323 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2324 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2327 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2328 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2329 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2330 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2331 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2332 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2333 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2334 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2335 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2338 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2339 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2342 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2343 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2345 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2346 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2347 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2348 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2349 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2350 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2351 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2352 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2353 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2356 o Minor features (geoip data):
2357 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2358 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2359 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2360 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2361 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2362 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2363 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2366 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2367 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2368 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2369 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2370 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2372 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2373 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2374 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2376 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2377 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2378 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2379 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2380 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2383 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2384 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2386 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2387 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2388 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2390 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2391 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2392 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2394 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2395 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2396 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2397 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2398 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2399 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2400 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2401 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2403 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2404 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2405 Closes ticket 40309.
2408 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2409 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2410 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2411 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2412 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2413 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2414 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2415 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2416 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2417 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2419 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2420 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2421 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2422 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2423 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2424 smaller features and bugfixes.
2426 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2427 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2429 o Major features (build):
2430 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2431 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2432 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2433 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2434 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2436 o Major features (metrics):
2437 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2438 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2439 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2440 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2441 information and security considerations.
2443 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2444 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2445 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2446 Closes ticket 33233.
2447 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2448 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2449 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2450 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2451 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2452 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2453 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2454 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2455 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2456 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2457 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2458 Closes ticket 34067.
2460 o Major features (tracing):
2461 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2462 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2463 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2464 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2465 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2467 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2468 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2469 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2470 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2471 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2473 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2474 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2475 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2476 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2477 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2478 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2479 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2481 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2482 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2483 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2484 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2485 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2486 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2488 o Minor features (address discovery):
2489 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2490 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2491 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2492 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2494 o Minor features (admin tools):
2495 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2496 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2497 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2500 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2501 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2502 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2503 Closes ticket 40245.
2505 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2506 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2507 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2508 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2509 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2510 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2512 o Minor features (build):
2513 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2514 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2515 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2516 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2517 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2519 o Minor features (configuration):
2520 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2521 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2522 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2523 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2524 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2525 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2527 o Minor features (control port):
2528 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2529 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2530 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2531 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2533 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2534 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2535 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2538 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2539 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2540 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2541 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2542 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2543 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2544 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2546 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2547 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2548 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2550 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2551 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2552 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2553 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2554 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2555 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2556 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2557 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2558 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2559 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2560 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2562 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2563 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2564 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2565 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2567 o Minor features (documentation):
2568 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2569 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2570 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2572 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2573 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2574 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2575 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2577 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2578 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2579 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2581 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2582 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2583 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2585 o Minor features (logging):
2586 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2587 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2588 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2589 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2590 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2591 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2593 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2594 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2595 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2596 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2598 o Minor features (onion services):
2599 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2600 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2601 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2603 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2604 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2605 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2606 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2607 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2608 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2610 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2611 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2612 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2613 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2614 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2616 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2617 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2618 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2619 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2620 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2621 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2622 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2624 o Minor features (relay):
2625 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2626 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2627 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2628 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2629 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2630 Closes ticket 34137.
2632 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2633 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2634 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2637 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2638 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2639 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2640 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2641 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2642 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2643 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2644 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2645 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2647 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2648 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2650 o Minor features (safety):
2651 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2652 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2655 o Minor features (specification update):
2656 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2657 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2658 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2660 o Minor features (state management):
2661 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2662 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2663 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2664 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2665 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2667 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2668 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2669 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2670 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2671 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2673 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2674 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2675 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2677 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2678 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2679 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2680 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2681 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2683 o Minor features (testing):
2684 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2685 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2687 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2688 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2689 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2690 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2692 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2693 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2694 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2695 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2696 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2697 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2698 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2699 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2700 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2702 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2703 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2704 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2705 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2706 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2707 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2709 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2710 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2711 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2712 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2713 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2714 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2717 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2718 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2719 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2720 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2721 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2722 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2725 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2726 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2727 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2728 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2729 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2731 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2732 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2733 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2734 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2736 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2737 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2738 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2739 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2740 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2741 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2742 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2743 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2745 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2746 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2747 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2748 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2749 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2750 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2751 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2752 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2755 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2756 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2757 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2758 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2760 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2761 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2762 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2763 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2764 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2765 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2766 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2768 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2769 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2770 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2771 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2772 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2773 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2775 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2776 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2777 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2779 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2780 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2781 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2782 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2783 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2784 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2785 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2786 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2788 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2789 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2790 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2791 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2792 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2793 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2794 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2795 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2796 Closes ticket 34200.
2797 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2798 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2799 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2800 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2801 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2802 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2803 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2805 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2806 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2807 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2808 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2809 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2810 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2813 o Deprecated features:
2814 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2815 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2816 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2819 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2820 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2823 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2824 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2825 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2826 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2828 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2829 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2831 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2832 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2833 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2834 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2835 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2839 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2840 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2842 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2843 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2844 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2846 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2847 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2848 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2849 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2850 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2852 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2853 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2854 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2855 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2856 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2858 o Documentation (manual page):
2859 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2860 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2861 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2862 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2864 o Documentation (tracing):
2865 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2866 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2868 o Removed features (controller):
2869 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2870 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2873 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2874 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2875 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2876 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2877 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2879 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2880 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2881 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2882 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2883 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2886 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2887 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2888 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2889 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2892 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2893 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2894 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2895 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2897 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2898 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2899 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2900 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2901 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2903 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2904 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2905 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2906 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2907 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2908 weasel for diagnosing this.
2910 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2911 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2912 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2913 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2914 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2915 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2916 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2918 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2919 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2920 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2921 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2923 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2924 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2925 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2926 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2928 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2929 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2930 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2931 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2932 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2933 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2934 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2936 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2937 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2940 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2941 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2942 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2943 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2944 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2946 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2947 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2949 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2950 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2951 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2952 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2953 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2956 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2957 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2958 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2959 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2960 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2962 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2963 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2964 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2965 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2968 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2969 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2970 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2971 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2973 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2974 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2975 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2976 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2977 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2979 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2980 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2981 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2982 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2983 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2984 weasel for diagnosing this.
2986 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2987 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2988 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2989 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2990 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2991 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2992 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2994 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2995 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
2996 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
2998 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2999 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3000 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3001 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3003 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3004 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3005 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3006 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3008 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3009 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3010 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3011 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3012 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3013 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3014 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3016 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3017 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3020 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3021 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3022 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3023 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3024 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3026 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3027 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3028 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3029 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3030 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3033 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3034 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3035 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3036 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3037 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3039 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3040 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3041 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3042 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3045 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3046 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3047 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3048 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3050 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3051 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3052 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3053 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3054 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3056 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3057 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3058 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3059 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3060 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3061 weasel for diagnosing this.
3063 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3064 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3065 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3066 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3067 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3068 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3069 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3071 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3072 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3073 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3075 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3076 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3077 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3078 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3080 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3081 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3082 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3083 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3085 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3086 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3087 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3088 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3090 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3091 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3094 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3095 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3096 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3097 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3098 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3099 intended for a different relay.
3101 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3102 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3103 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3104 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3105 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3106 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3107 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3109 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3110 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3111 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3112 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3113 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3114 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3115 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3116 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3117 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3118 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3119 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3121 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3122 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3123 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3124 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3125 closes ticket 40133.
3127 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3128 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3129 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3131 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3132 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3133 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3135 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3136 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3137 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3138 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3139 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3140 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3142 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3143 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3144 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3146 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3147 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3148 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3151 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3152 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3153 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3154 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3157 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3158 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3159 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3160 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3161 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3163 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3164 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3165 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3168 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3169 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3170 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3171 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3173 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3174 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3175 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3176 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3177 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3178 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3179 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3181 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3182 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3183 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3184 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3185 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3188 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3189 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3190 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3191 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3192 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3193 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3195 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3196 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3197 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3198 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3199 closes ticket 40133.
3201 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3202 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3203 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3204 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3206 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3207 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3208 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3210 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3211 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3212 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3214 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3215 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3216 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3217 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3218 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3220 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3221 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3222 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3224 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3225 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3226 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3227 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3228 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3229 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3230 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3232 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3233 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3234 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3237 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3238 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3239 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3240 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3241 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3242 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3245 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3246 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3247 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3248 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3250 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3251 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3252 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3253 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3255 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3256 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3257 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3259 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3260 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3263 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3264 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3265 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3266 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3267 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3268 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3269 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3272 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3273 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3274 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3275 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3276 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3278 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3279 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3280 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3281 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3283 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3284 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3285 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3286 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3287 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3288 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3289 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3291 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3292 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3293 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3294 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3295 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3298 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3299 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3300 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3301 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3302 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3303 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3305 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3306 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3307 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3308 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3310 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3311 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3312 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3313 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3314 closes ticket 40133.
3316 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3317 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3318 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3319 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3321 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3322 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3323 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3325 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3326 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3327 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3329 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3330 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3331 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3332 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3333 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3335 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3336 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3337 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3339 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3340 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3341 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3342 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3343 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3344 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3345 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3347 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3348 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3349 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3352 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3353 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3354 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3355 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3356 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3357 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3360 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3361 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3362 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3363 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3365 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3366 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3367 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3368 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3370 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3371 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3372 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3374 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3375 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3378 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3379 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3380 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3381 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3382 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3383 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3384 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3386 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3387 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3388 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3389 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3390 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3392 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3393 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3394 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3396 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3397 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3399 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3400 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3401 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3402 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3403 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3404 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3405 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3406 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3407 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3408 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3410 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3411 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3412 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3413 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3415 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3416 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3417 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3418 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3419 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3420 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3421 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3423 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3425 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3426 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3427 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3428 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3430 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3431 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3432 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3433 Closes ticket 32709.
3435 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3436 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3437 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3438 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3439 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3442 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3443 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3444 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3445 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3446 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3447 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3449 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3450 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3451 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3452 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3453 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3455 o Minor features (security):
3456 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3457 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3458 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3459 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3460 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3462 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3463 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3464 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3465 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3466 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3469 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3470 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3471 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3472 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3473 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3474 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3475 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3477 o Minor features (code safety):
3478 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3479 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3480 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3481 Resolves issue 33788.
3483 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3484 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3485 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3486 Resolves ticket 32143.
3488 o Minor features (control port):
3489 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3490 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3491 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3492 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3493 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3494 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3495 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3497 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3498 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3499 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3501 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3502 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3503 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3504 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3505 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3506 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3508 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3509 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3510 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3511 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3512 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3513 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3514 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3515 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3517 o Minor features (directory authority):
3518 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3519 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3520 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3521 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3522 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3524 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3525 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3526 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3527 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3529 o Minor features (directory):
3530 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3531 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3532 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3535 o Minor features (entry guards):
3536 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3537 Closes ticket 40001.
3539 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3540 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3541 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3543 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3544 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3545 Closes ticket 33901.
3547 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3548 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3549 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3550 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3551 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3552 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3553 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3555 o Minor features (logging):
3556 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3557 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3559 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3560 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3561 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3562 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3565 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3566 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3567 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3569 o Minor features (python scripts):
3570 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3571 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3572 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3573 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3575 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3576 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3577 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3578 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3579 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3580 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3581 up from ticket 33316.
3582 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3583 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3584 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3586 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3587 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3588 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3589 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3591 o Minor features (windows):
3592 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3593 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3595 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3596 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3597 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3598 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3600 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3601 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3602 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3603 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3604 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3606 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3607 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3608 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3609 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3610 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3611 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3613 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3614 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3615 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3616 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3618 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3619 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3620 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3621 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3622 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3624 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3625 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3626 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3628 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3629 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3630 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3631 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3632 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3633 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3634 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3635 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3636 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3637 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3639 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3640 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3641 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3642 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3643 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3645 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3646 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3647 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3648 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3651 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3652 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3653 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3654 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3655 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3656 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3657 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3659 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3660 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3661 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3663 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3664 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3665 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3667 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3668 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3669 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3671 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3672 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3673 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3676 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3677 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3678 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3681 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3682 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3683 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3684 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3685 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3686 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3687 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3689 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3690 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3691 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3692 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3694 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3695 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3696 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3697 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3698 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3701 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3702 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3703 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3704 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3705 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3706 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3709 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3710 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3711 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3714 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3715 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3716 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3717 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3719 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3720 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3721 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3722 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3723 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3726 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3727 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3728 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3730 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3731 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3732 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3733 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3734 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3735 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3736 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3737 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3738 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3739 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3740 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3741 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3743 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3744 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3745 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3746 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3748 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3749 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3750 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3751 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3754 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3755 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3756 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3757 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3758 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3759 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3762 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3763 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3764 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3765 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3766 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3767 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3768 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3769 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3770 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3771 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3772 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3773 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3774 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3777 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3778 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3779 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3780 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3781 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3782 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3783 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3784 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3786 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3787 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3789 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3790 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3791 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3792 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3793 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3794 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3795 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3796 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3797 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3798 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3799 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3800 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3802 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3803 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3806 o Documentation (manual page):
3807 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3808 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3809 Google Season of Docs.
3810 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3811 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3812 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3813 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3814 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3815 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3816 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3817 Closes ticket 33778.
3820 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3821 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3822 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3824 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3825 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3826 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3827 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3828 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3829 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3830 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3833 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3834 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3835 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3836 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3839 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3840 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3841 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3842 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3843 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3844 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3846 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3847 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3848 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3849 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3850 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3851 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3853 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3854 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3855 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3857 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3858 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3859 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3860 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3863 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3864 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3865 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3866 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3869 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3870 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3871 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3872 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3873 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3875 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3876 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3877 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3879 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3880 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3881 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3882 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3883 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3886 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3887 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3888 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3889 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3890 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3891 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3893 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3894 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3895 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3896 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3898 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3899 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3900 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3901 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3904 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3905 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3906 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3907 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3908 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3909 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3910 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3911 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3915 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3916 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3917 several that affect usability and portability.
3919 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3920 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3921 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3922 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3923 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3924 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3925 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3928 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3929 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3930 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3931 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3934 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3935 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3936 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3937 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3938 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3939 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3941 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3942 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3943 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3944 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3945 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3947 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3948 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3949 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3950 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3952 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3953 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3954 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3955 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3956 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3957 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3959 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3960 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3961 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3963 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3964 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3965 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3966 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3969 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3970 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3971 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3972 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3975 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3976 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3977 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3978 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3979 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3980 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
3983 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3984 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3985 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3987 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
3988 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
3989 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
3990 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3992 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3993 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3994 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3995 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3996 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3999 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4000 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4001 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4002 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4003 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4004 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4006 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4007 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4008 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4009 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4010 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4012 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4013 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4014 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4015 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4017 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4018 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4019 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4020 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4022 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4023 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4024 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4025 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4028 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4029 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4030 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4031 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4032 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4033 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4034 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4035 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4039 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4040 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4041 some affecting usability.
4043 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4044 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4045 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4046 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4047 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4048 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4049 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4052 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4053 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4054 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4055 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4058 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4059 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4060 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4062 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4063 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4064 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4065 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4068 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4069 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4070 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4072 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4073 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4074 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4075 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4077 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4078 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4079 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4080 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4082 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4083 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4084 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4086 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4087 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4088 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4089 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4090 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4092 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4093 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4094 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4096 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4097 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4098 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4099 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4101 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4102 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4106 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4107 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4108 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4109 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4110 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4111 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4114 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4115 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4116 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4117 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4118 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4120 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4121 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4122 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4125 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
4126 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4128 o New system requirements:
4129 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4130 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4131 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4133 o Major features (build system):
4134 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4135 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4136 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4137 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4138 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4140 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4141 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4142 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4143 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4144 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4146 o Major features (onion services):
4147 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4148 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4149 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4150 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4151 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4152 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4153 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4155 o Major features (proxy):
4156 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4157 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4158 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4159 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4160 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4161 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4163 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4164 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4165 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4166 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4167 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4168 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4169 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4170 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4171 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4173 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4174 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4175 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4176 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4177 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4179 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4180 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4181 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4182 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4183 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4185 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4186 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4187 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4188 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4189 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4190 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4192 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4193 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4194 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4195 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4197 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4198 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4199 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4200 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4201 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4202 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4204 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4205 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4206 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4208 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4209 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4210 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4211 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4212 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4214 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4215 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4216 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4217 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4219 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4220 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4221 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4222 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4223 Closes ticket 31241.
4225 o Minor features (configuration):
4226 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4227 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4229 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4230 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4231 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4232 Implements ticket 32404.
4234 o Minor features (configure, build system):
4235 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4236 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4238 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4239 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4240 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4241 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4242 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4243 Closes ticket 33075.
4245 o Minor features (controller):
4246 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4247 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4248 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4250 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4251 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4252 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4253 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4255 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4256 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4257 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4260 o Minor features (developer tools):
4261 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4262 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4263 Closes ticket 32772.
4264 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4265 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4266 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4267 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4268 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4269 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4270 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4271 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4273 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4274 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4275 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4276 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4278 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4279 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4280 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4281 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4283 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4284 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4285 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4286 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4288 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4289 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4290 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4291 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4293 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4294 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4295 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4296 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4297 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4298 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4299 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4300 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4302 o Minor features (git scripts):
4303 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4304 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4305 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4306 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4307 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4308 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4309 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4310 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4311 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4312 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4313 Closes ticket 32216.
4314 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4315 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4316 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4317 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4319 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4320 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4321 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4322 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4323 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4324 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4326 o Minor features (portability, android):
4327 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4328 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4329 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4331 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4332 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4333 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4334 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4335 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4336 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4337 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4338 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4339 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4340 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4342 o Minor features (release tools):
4343 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4344 Closes ticket 32704.
4346 o Minor features (testing):
4347 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4348 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4349 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4350 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4351 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4352 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4353 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4354 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4355 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4356 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4357 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4359 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4360 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4361 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4363 o Minor features (usability):
4364 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4365 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4366 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4368 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4369 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4370 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4371 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4374 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4375 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4376 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4378 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4379 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4380 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4382 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4383 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4384 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4385 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4386 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4387 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4390 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4391 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4392 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4393 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4394 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4395 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4396 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4397 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4398 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4399 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4400 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4401 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4402 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4403 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4404 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4405 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4406 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4407 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4409 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4410 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4413 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4414 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4415 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4416 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4418 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4419 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4420 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4423 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4424 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4425 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4427 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4428 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4429 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4430 Closes ticket 32213.
4431 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4432 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4433 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4435 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4436 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4437 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4438 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4439 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4442 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4443 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4445 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4446 Closes ticket 32216.
4448 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4449 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4450 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4451 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4452 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4453 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4455 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4456 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4457 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4458 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4459 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4460 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4461 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4462 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4464 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4465 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4466 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4467 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4469 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4470 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4471 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4472 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4474 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4475 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4476 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4477 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4478 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4479 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4480 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4481 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4484 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4485 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4486 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4487 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4489 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4490 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4491 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4492 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4493 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4494 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4495 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4497 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4498 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4499 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4500 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4501 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4503 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4504 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4505 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4506 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4509 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4510 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4511 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4512 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4513 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4515 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4516 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4517 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4518 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4520 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4521 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4522 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4523 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4525 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4526 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4527 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4529 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4530 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4531 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4532 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4534 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4535 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4536 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4537 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4538 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4539 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4540 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4542 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4543 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4544 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4545 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4546 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4548 o Deprecated features:
4549 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4550 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4551 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4555 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4556 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4557 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4558 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4559 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4560 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4561 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4562 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4564 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4565 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4568 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4569 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4570 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4571 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4572 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4573 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4575 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4576 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4577 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4578 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4579 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4582 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4583 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4584 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4585 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4586 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4588 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4589 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4591 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4592 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4593 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4594 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4595 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4598 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4599 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4600 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4602 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4603 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4604 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4605 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4606 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4607 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4608 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4609 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4610 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4611 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4612 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4613 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4614 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4615 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4616 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4617 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4618 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4620 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4621 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4623 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4624 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4625 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4627 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4628 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4629 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4630 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4631 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4632 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4634 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4635 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4636 Closes ticket 32163.
4637 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4639 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4641 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4642 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4643 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4645 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4646 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4647 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4648 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4649 Closes ticket 32304.
4650 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4651 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4652 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4653 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4654 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4657 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4658 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4660 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4663 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4664 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4665 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4666 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4667 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4668 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4669 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4670 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4672 o Documentation (manpage):
4673 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4674 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4675 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4676 Google Season of Docs.
4677 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4678 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4679 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4680 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4681 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4682 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4684 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4686 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4687 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4688 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4690 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4691 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4692 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4694 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4695 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4696 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4697 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4698 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4699 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4700 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4701 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4704 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4705 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4708 o Testing (Travis CI):
4709 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4710 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4711 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4713 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4714 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4715 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4716 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4717 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4720 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4721 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4722 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4723 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4724 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4725 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4726 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4727 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4728 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4729 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4730 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4731 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4733 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4734 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4735 as soon as packages are available.
4737 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4738 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4739 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4740 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4741 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4742 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4743 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4744 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4745 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4747 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4748 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4749 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4750 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4751 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4753 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4754 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4755 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4756 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4757 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4759 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4760 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4761 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4762 Closes ticket 33075.
4764 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4765 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4766 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4768 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4769 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4770 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4771 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4772 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4775 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4776 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4777 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4778 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4781 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4782 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4783 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4784 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4786 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4787 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4788 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4789 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4791 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4792 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4793 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4794 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4795 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4798 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4799 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4800 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4801 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4802 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4803 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4804 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4805 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4806 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4807 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4808 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4809 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4811 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4812 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4813 as soon as packages are available.
4815 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4816 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4817 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4818 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4819 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4820 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4821 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4822 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4823 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4825 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4826 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4827 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4828 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4829 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4831 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4832 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4833 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4835 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4836 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4837 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4838 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4839 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4842 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4843 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4844 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4845 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4848 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4849 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4850 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4851 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4853 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4854 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4855 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4856 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4858 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4859 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4860 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4861 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4862 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4865 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4866 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4867 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4868 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4869 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4870 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4871 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4872 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4873 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4874 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4875 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4878 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4879 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4880 as soon as packages are available.
4882 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4883 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4884 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4885 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4886 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4887 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4888 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4889 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4890 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4892 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4893 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4894 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4895 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4896 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4897 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4898 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4899 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4902 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4903 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4904 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4905 Closes ticket 33075.
4907 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4908 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4909 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4911 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4912 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4913 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4914 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4915 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4917 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4918 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4919 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4920 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4921 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4924 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4925 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4926 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4927 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4930 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4931 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4932 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4933 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4935 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4936 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4937 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4938 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4939 Closes ticket 32629.
4940 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4941 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4942 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4944 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4945 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4947 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4948 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4949 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4950 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4952 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4953 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4954 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4955 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4958 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4959 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4960 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4961 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4962 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4963 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4965 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4966 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4967 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4968 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4969 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4970 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4971 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4972 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4974 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
4975 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
4976 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
4978 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4979 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
4980 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
4981 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4983 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4984 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
4985 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
4986 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4988 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4989 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
4990 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
4991 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4992 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
4993 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
4996 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4997 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
4998 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5000 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5001 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5002 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5003 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5004 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5005 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5006 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5007 Closes ticket 32629.
5009 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5010 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5013 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5014 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5015 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5016 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5017 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5018 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5020 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5021 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5022 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5023 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5024 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5025 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5026 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5027 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5029 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5030 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5031 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5033 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5034 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5035 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5036 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5037 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5039 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5040 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5041 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5043 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5044 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5045 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5046 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5047 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5048 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5049 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5050 Closes ticket 32629.
5052 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5053 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5056 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5057 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5058 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5059 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5060 bugs present in previous series.
5062 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5063 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5064 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5065 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5067 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
5068 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5070 o Major features (directory authorities):
5071 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5072 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5073 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5075 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5076 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5077 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5078 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5079 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5080 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5083 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5084 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5085 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5086 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5087 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5088 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5091 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5092 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5093 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5094 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5095 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5096 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5097 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5098 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5099 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5101 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5102 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5103 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5104 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5106 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5107 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5108 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5109 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5110 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5111 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5112 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5113 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5115 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5116 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5117 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5118 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5119 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5121 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5122 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5123 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5124 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5125 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5128 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5129 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5130 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5131 Closes ticket 29669.
5133 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5134 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5135 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5136 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5137 Closes ticket 31779.
5139 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5140 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5141 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5142 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5143 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5144 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5145 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5146 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5147 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5148 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5149 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5150 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5151 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5152 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5153 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5155 o Minor features (build system):
5156 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5157 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5158 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5159 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5160 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5162 o Minor features (compilation):
5163 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5164 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5165 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5167 o Minor features (configuration):
5168 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5169 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5170 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5171 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5173 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5174 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5175 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5176 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5177 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5178 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5179 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5181 o Minor features (debugging):
5182 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5183 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5184 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5185 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5187 o Minor features (geoip):
5188 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5189 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5191 o Minor features (git hooks):
5192 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5193 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5194 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5195 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5196 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5198 o Minor features (git scripts):
5199 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5200 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5201 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5202 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5203 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5204 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5205 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5206 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5207 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5208 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5209 Closes ticket 31314.
5210 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5211 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5212 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5213 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5214 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5215 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5216 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5217 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5218 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5220 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5221 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5222 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5225 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5226 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5227 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5229 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5230 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5231 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5232 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5233 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5234 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5235 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5237 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5238 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5239 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5241 o Minor features (onion service):
5242 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5243 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5244 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5245 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5247 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5248 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5249 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5252 o Minor features (stem tests):
5253 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5254 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5257 o Minor features (testing):
5258 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5259 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5260 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5261 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5262 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5263 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5264 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5265 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5266 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5267 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5268 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5269 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5270 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5271 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5272 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5274 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5275 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5276 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5277 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5279 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5280 Closes ticket 31859.
5281 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5282 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5284 o Minor features (token bucket):
5285 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5286 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5288 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5289 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5290 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5292 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5293 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5294 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5295 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5296 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5297 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5298 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5299 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5302 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5303 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5304 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5305 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5307 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5308 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5309 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5310 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5311 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5312 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5313 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5315 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5316 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5317 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5318 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5319 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5320 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5322 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5323 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5324 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5325 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5326 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5327 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5329 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5330 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5331 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5333 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5334 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5335 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5336 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5337 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5339 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5340 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5341 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5343 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5344 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5345 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5346 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5348 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5349 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5350 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5351 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5353 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5354 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5355 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5356 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5358 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5359 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5360 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5361 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5362 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5363 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5364 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5365 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5366 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5367 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5369 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5370 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5371 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5372 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5373 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5375 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5376 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5377 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5380 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5381 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5382 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5384 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5385 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5386 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5387 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5388 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5389 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5390 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5391 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5392 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5393 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5394 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5395 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5398 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5399 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5400 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5401 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5404 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5405 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5406 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5407 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5409 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5410 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5411 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5412 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5413 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5414 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5415 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5416 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5417 Closes ticket 31678.
5419 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5420 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5421 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5422 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5423 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5425 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5426 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5427 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5428 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5429 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5430 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5431 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5432 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5433 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5436 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5437 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5438 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5439 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5440 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5441 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5442 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5443 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5444 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5445 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5446 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5447 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5448 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5450 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5451 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5452 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5454 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5455 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5456 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5457 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5459 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5460 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5461 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5462 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5463 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5466 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5467 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5468 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5471 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5472 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5473 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5476 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5477 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5478 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5480 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5481 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5482 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5483 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5484 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5485 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5487 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5488 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5489 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5490 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5493 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5494 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5495 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5496 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5497 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5499 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5500 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5501 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5502 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5503 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5504 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5506 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5507 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5508 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5509 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5511 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5512 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5513 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5515 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5516 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5517 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5519 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5520 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5521 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5522 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5524 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5525 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5526 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5527 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5528 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5530 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5531 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5532 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5533 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5535 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5536 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5537 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5538 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5539 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5541 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5542 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5543 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5544 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5545 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5548 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5549 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5550 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5552 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5553 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5554 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5555 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5556 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5557 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5560 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5561 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5562 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5564 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5565 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5566 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5569 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5570 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5571 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5572 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5573 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5574 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5576 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5577 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5578 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5579 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5580 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5582 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5583 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5584 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5585 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5586 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5587 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5588 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5589 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5590 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5591 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5593 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5594 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5595 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5596 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5597 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5598 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5599 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5601 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5605 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5606 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5607 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5608 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5609 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5610 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5611 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5612 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5614 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5615 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5616 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5617 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5618 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5619 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5620 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5621 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5622 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5623 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5624 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5625 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5626 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5629 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5630 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5631 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5632 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5633 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5634 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5636 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5640 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5641 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5642 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5643 Closes ticket 32500.
5644 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5645 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5646 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5647 Closes ticket 30967.
5649 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5650 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5651 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5652 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5653 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5654 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5655 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5656 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5657 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5658 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5659 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5660 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5661 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5662 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5663 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5664 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5666 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5667 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5668 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5669 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5670 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5671 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5672 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5673 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5674 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5675 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5677 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5678 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5679 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5681 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5682 Closes ticket 30806.
5683 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5684 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5687 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5688 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5689 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5691 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5692 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5693 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5695 o Testing (continuous integration):
5696 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5697 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5698 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5699 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5700 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5701 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5702 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5703 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5704 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5707 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5708 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5709 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5710 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5712 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5713 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5714 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5715 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5717 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5718 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5719 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5720 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5722 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5723 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5724 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5725 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5726 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5727 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5728 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5729 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5731 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5732 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5733 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5734 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5735 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5737 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5738 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5739 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5740 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5741 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5744 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5745 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5746 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5747 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5749 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5750 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5751 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5753 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5754 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5755 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5757 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5758 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5759 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5760 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5761 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5762 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5764 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5765 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5766 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5767 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5769 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5770 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5771 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5772 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5773 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5774 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5775 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5776 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5777 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5778 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5781 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5782 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5783 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5784 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5785 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5786 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5787 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5788 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5789 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5791 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5792 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5793 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5794 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5796 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5797 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5798 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5799 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5800 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5803 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5804 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5805 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5807 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5808 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5809 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5811 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5812 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5813 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5815 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5816 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5817 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5818 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5820 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5821 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5822 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5823 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5824 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5826 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5827 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5828 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5830 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5831 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5832 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5835 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5836 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5837 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5839 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5840 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5841 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5842 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5844 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5845 Closes ticket 31859.
5846 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5847 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5849 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5850 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5851 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5852 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5853 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5854 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5855 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5856 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5857 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5858 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5860 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5861 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5862 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5863 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5864 Closes ticket 32500.
5867 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5868 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5869 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5870 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5871 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5873 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5874 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5875 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5876 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5878 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5879 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5882 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5883 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5884 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5885 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5886 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5887 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5888 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5889 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5890 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5891 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5892 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5894 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5895 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5896 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5897 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5898 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5899 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5901 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5902 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5903 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5904 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5905 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5908 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5909 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5910 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5911 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5912 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5914 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5915 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5916 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5917 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5920 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5921 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5922 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5923 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5924 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5925 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5926 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5927 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5929 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5930 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5931 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5932 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5933 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5935 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5936 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5937 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5938 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5939 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5942 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5943 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5944 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5946 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5947 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5948 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5951 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5952 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5953 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5955 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5956 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5957 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5958 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5960 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5961 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5962 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5963 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5964 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5966 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5967 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5968 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5970 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5971 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5972 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5975 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5976 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5977 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5979 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5980 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5981 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5983 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5984 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
5985 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5987 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5988 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
5989 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
5992 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5993 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5994 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5995 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5996 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5997 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5999 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6000 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6001 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6002 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6003 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6005 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6006 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6007 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6010 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6011 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6012 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6014 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6015 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6016 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6017 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6019 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6020 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6021 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6022 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6024 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6025 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6026 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6027 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6029 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6030 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6031 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6032 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6034 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6035 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6036 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6037 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6038 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6039 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6040 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6042 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6043 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6044 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6045 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6047 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6048 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6049 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6050 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6052 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6053 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6054 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6057 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6058 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6059 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6060 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6061 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6062 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6063 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6065 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6066 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6067 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6068 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6071 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6072 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6073 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6074 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6075 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6077 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6078 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6079 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6080 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6081 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6083 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6084 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6085 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6088 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6089 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6090 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6091 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6092 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6094 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6095 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6096 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6097 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6099 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6100 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6101 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6102 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6103 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6106 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6107 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6108 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6111 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6112 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6113 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6114 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6116 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6117 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6118 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6119 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6121 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6122 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6123 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6124 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6126 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6127 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6128 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6129 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6132 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6133 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6134 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6135 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6136 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6137 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6140 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6141 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6142 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6144 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6145 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6146 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6148 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6149 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6150 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6151 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6153 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6154 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6155 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6157 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6158 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6159 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6160 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6161 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6163 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6164 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6165 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6168 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6169 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6170 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6171 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6172 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6173 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6174 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6175 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6176 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6177 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6179 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6180 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6181 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6182 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6184 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6185 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6186 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6187 Resolves issue 29702.
6189 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6190 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6192 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6193 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6194 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6195 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6198 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6199 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6200 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6201 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6203 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6204 Closes ticket 31859.
6205 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6206 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6208 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6209 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6210 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6211 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6212 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6213 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6214 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6215 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6216 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6217 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6219 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6220 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6221 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6222 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6223 Closes ticket 32500.
6226 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6227 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6228 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6231 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6232 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6235 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6236 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6237 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6238 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6239 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6240 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6241 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6242 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6243 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6244 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6245 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6247 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6248 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6249 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6250 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6251 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6252 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6254 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6255 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6256 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6257 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6258 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6259 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6261 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6262 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6263 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6264 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6265 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6268 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6269 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6270 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6271 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6272 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6274 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6275 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6276 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6277 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6280 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6281 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6282 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6283 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6284 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6286 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6287 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6288 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6289 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6290 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6293 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6294 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6295 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6296 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6297 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6298 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6299 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6300 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6302 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6303 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6304 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6305 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6306 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6309 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6310 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6311 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6313 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6314 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6315 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6318 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6319 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6320 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6321 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6323 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6324 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6325 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6328 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6329 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6330 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6332 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6333 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6334 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6335 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6337 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6338 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6339 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6340 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6341 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6343 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6344 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6345 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6347 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6348 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6349 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6350 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6352 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6353 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6354 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6357 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6358 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6359 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6360 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6361 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6362 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6363 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6364 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6365 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6366 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6367 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6368 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6369 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6372 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6373 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6374 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6375 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6376 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6378 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6379 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6380 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6382 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6383 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6384 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6386 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6387 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6388 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6390 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6391 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6392 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6395 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6396 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6397 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6399 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6400 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6401 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6402 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6403 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6404 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6406 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6407 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6408 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6409 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6410 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6412 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6413 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6414 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6417 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6418 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6419 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6421 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6422 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6423 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6425 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6426 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6427 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6428 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6430 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6431 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6432 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6433 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6435 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6436 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6437 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6438 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6440 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6441 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6442 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6443 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6445 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6446 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6447 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6448 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6449 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6450 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6451 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6453 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6454 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6455 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6456 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6458 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6459 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6460 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6461 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6463 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6464 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6465 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6468 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6469 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6470 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6471 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6472 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6473 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6474 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6476 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6477 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6478 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6479 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6482 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6483 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6484 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6485 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6486 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6488 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6489 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6490 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6492 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6493 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6494 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6495 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6496 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6497 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6498 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6499 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6500 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6501 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6502 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6504 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6505 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6506 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6507 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6508 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6510 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6511 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6512 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6515 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6516 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6517 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6518 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6519 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6521 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6522 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6523 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6524 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6526 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6527 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6528 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6529 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6530 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6533 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6534 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6535 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6538 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6539 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6540 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6541 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6543 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6544 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6545 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6546 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6548 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6549 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6550 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6552 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6553 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6554 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6555 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6557 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6558 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6559 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6560 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6563 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6564 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6565 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6566 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6567 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6568 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6571 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6572 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6573 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6574 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6576 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6577 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6578 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6580 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6581 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6582 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6584 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6585 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6586 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6587 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6588 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6589 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6590 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6592 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6593 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6594 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6597 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6598 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6599 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6600 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6601 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6602 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6603 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6604 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6606 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6607 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6608 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6609 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6610 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6611 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6614 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6615 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6616 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6617 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6618 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6620 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6621 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6622 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6623 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6624 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6625 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6626 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6627 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6629 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6630 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6631 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6634 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6635 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6636 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6637 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6638 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6639 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6640 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6641 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6642 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6643 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6645 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6646 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6647 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6648 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6649 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6650 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6652 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6653 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6654 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6655 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6657 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6658 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6659 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6660 Resolves issue 29702.
6662 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6663 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6665 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6666 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6667 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6668 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6671 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6672 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6673 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6674 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6676 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6677 Closes ticket 31859.
6678 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6679 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6681 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6682 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6683 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6684 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6685 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6686 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6687 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6688 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6689 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6690 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6692 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6693 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6694 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6695 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6696 Closes ticket 32500.
6699 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6700 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6701 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6702 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6705 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6706 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6707 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6708 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6709 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6710 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6711 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6712 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6713 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6715 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6716 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6717 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6720 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6721 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6722 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6724 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6725 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6726 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6727 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6728 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6730 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6731 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6732 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6734 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6735 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6736 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6737 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6739 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6740 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6741 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6742 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6745 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6746 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6747 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6748 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6749 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6751 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6752 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6753 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6756 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6757 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6758 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6760 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6761 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6762 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6763 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6764 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6765 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6767 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6768 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6769 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6770 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6771 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6772 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6773 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6774 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6775 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6776 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6778 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6779 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6780 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6781 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6784 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6785 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6786 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6787 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6788 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6789 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6790 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6792 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6793 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6794 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6795 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6797 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6798 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6800 o Directory authority changes:
6801 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6804 o Major features (circuit padding):
6805 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6806 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6807 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6808 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6809 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6810 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6811 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6812 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6813 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6815 o Major features (code organization):
6816 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6817 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6818 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6819 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6822 o Major features (controller protocol):
6823 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6824 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6825 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6826 Closes ticket 30091.
6828 o Major features (flow control):
6829 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6830 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6831 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6832 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6833 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6834 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6835 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6837 o Major features (performance):
6838 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6839 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6840 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6842 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6843 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6844 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6845 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6846 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6847 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6848 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6849 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6850 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6852 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6853 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6854 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6855 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6856 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6857 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6858 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6859 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6860 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6861 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6862 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6864 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6865 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6866 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6868 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6869 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6870 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6871 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6872 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6874 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6875 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6876 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6877 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6878 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6881 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6882 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6883 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6884 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6885 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6887 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6888 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6889 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6890 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6893 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6894 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6895 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6896 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6897 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6898 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6901 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6902 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6903 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6904 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6906 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6907 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6909 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6910 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6911 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6912 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6913 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6914 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6915 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6917 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6918 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6919 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6921 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6922 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6923 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6924 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6925 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6927 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6928 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6930 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6932 o Minor features (controller):
6933 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6934 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6935 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6937 o Minor features (debugging):
6938 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6939 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6940 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6941 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6943 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6944 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6945 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6946 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6947 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6948 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6949 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6950 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6951 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6952 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6954 o Minor features (developer tools):
6955 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6956 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6957 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6958 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6959 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6961 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6962 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6964 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6965 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6967 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6968 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6969 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6970 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6971 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6973 o Minor features (geoip):
6974 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6975 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
6976 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6977 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
6979 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
6980 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
6981 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
6983 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
6984 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
6985 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
6986 addresses. Implements 26992.
6988 o Minor features (logging):
6989 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
6990 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
6991 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
6992 Closes ticket 30686.
6994 o Minor features (maintenance):
6995 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
6996 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
6997 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
6999 o Minor features (modularity):
7000 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7001 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7003 o Minor features (performance):
7004 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7005 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7006 Closes ticket 28837.
7008 o Minor features (testing):
7009 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7010 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7011 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7012 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7014 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7015 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7016 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7017 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7018 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7019 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7020 Implements ticket 29732.
7021 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7022 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7024 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7025 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7027 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7028 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7029 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7030 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7031 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7032 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7034 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7035 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7036 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7037 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7039 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7040 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7041 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7043 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7044 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7045 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7046 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7047 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7048 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7049 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7050 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7051 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7052 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7053 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7054 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7055 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7056 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7057 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7058 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7059 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7060 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7062 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7063 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7064 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7065 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7066 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7068 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7069 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7070 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7071 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7072 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7073 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7075 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7076 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7077 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
7080 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7081 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7082 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7084 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7085 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7086 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7087 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7089 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7090 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7091 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7092 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7094 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7095 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7096 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7097 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7098 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7099 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7100 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7102 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7103 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7104 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7105 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7106 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7108 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7109 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7110 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7111 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7113 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7114 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7115 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7118 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7119 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7120 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7121 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7122 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7123 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7125 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7126 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7127 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7129 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7130 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7131 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7132 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7133 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7134 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7136 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7137 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7139 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7140 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7141 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7142 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7143 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7144 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7145 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7148 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7149 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7150 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7152 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7153 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7156 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7157 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7158 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7159 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7161 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7162 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7163 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7164 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7165 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7166 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7167 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7168 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7170 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7171 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7172 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7173 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7174 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7175 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7176 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7178 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7179 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7180 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7181 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7182 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7183 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7185 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7186 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7187 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7188 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7191 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7192 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7193 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7194 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7195 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7197 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7198 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7199 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7201 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7202 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7203 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7204 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7205 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7206 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7209 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7210 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7211 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7214 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7215 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7216 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7217 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7219 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7220 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7221 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7222 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7223 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7225 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7226 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7227 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7228 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7230 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7231 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7232 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7233 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7234 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7236 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7237 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7238 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7239 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7240 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7241 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7242 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7243 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7244 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7245 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7246 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7247 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7248 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7250 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7251 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7252 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7253 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7254 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7256 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7257 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7258 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7259 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7260 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7261 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7262 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7263 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7264 Resolves issue 28816.
7265 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7266 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7267 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7268 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7269 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7270 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7271 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7272 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7273 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7274 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7275 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7276 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7277 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7278 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7279 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7280 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7281 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7282 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7283 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7284 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7285 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7286 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7287 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7288 Closes ticket 29894.
7289 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7290 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7291 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7292 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7295 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7296 Closes ticket 30630.
7297 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7298 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7302 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7303 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7304 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7305 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7309 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7310 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7311 Resolves issue 29702.
7313 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7314 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7315 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7316 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7317 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7318 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7319 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7320 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7321 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7322 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7323 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7326 o Testing (chutney):
7327 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7328 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7329 Closes ticket 27251.
7331 o Testing (continuous integration):
7332 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7333 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7334 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7335 Closes ticket 30694.
7338 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7339 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7340 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7341 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7342 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7343 long-term maintainability.
7345 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7346 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7347 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7348 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7350 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7351 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7353 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7354 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7355 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7356 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7357 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7358 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7360 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7361 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7363 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7364 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7367 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7368 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7369 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7370 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7371 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7372 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7373 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7374 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7375 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7378 o Major features (circuit padding):
7379 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7380 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7381 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7382 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7383 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7384 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7385 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7386 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7389 o Major features (refactoring):
7390 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7391 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7392 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7393 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7396 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7397 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7398 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7399 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7400 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7401 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7402 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7403 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7405 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7406 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7407 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7408 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7409 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7411 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7412 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7413 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7414 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7415 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7416 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7418 o Minor features (address selection):
7419 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7420 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7421 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7422 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7423 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7424 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7425 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7427 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7428 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7429 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7430 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7431 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7433 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7434 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7435 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7438 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7439 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7440 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7441 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7442 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7445 o Minor features (compilation):
7446 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7447 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7448 Patches from "Mangix".
7450 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7451 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7452 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7454 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7456 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7457 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7458 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7460 o Minor features (controller):
7461 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7462 Implements ticket 28843.
7464 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7465 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7466 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7467 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7468 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7469 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7470 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7472 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7473 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7474 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7476 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7477 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7478 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7481 o Minor features (directory authority):
7482 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7483 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7484 Closes ticket 26698.
7485 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7486 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7487 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7488 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7491 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7492 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7493 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7494 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7495 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7496 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7497 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7499 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7500 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7501 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7502 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7503 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7504 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7505 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7507 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7508 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7509 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7511 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7512 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7513 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7514 Closes ticket 28518.
7516 o Minor features (geoip):
7517 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7518 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7520 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7521 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7522 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7523 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7525 o Minor features (IPv6):
7526 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7527 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7528 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7529 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7530 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7531 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7532 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7533 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7534 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7535 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7537 o Minor features (log messages):
7538 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7539 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7542 o Minor features (memory usage):
7543 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7544 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7545 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7546 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7547 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7549 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7550 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7551 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7552 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7554 o Minor features (parsing):
7555 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7556 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7557 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7559 o Minor features (performance):
7560 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7561 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7562 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7563 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7565 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7566 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7567 Closes ticket 28852.
7568 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7569 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7570 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7571 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7572 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7573 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7575 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7576 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7577 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7578 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7579 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7581 o Minor features (process management):
7582 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7583 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7584 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7585 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7586 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7588 o Minor features (relay):
7589 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7590 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7591 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7593 o Minor features (required protocols):
7594 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7595 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7596 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7597 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7598 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7599 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7600 297; closes ticket 27735.
7602 o Minor features (testing):
7603 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7605 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7606 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7607 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7608 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7611 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7612 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7613 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7614 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7615 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7616 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7617 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7618 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7619 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7621 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7622 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7623 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7624 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7626 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7627 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7628 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7629 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7630 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7632 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7633 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7634 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7636 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7637 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7638 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7639 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7641 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7642 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7643 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7646 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7647 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7648 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7649 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7650 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7653 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7654 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7655 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7656 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7657 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7658 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7660 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7661 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7662 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7664 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7665 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7666 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7667 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7669 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7670 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7671 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7672 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7673 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7675 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7676 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7677 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7678 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7680 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7681 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7682 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7683 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7684 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7685 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7686 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7688 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7689 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7690 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7691 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7694 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7695 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7696 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7697 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7698 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7699 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7700 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7701 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7702 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7703 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7704 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7705 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7706 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7707 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7708 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7709 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7710 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7711 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7712 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7713 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7714 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7715 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7717 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7718 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7719 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7720 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7721 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7722 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7724 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7725 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7726 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7727 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7728 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7730 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7731 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7732 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7733 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7735 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7736 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7737 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7738 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7739 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7740 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7742 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7743 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7744 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7746 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7747 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7748 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7750 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7751 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7752 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7753 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7755 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7756 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7757 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7758 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7760 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7761 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7762 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7763 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7764 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7766 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7767 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7768 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7770 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7771 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7772 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7773 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7774 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7777 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7778 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7779 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7780 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7781 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7782 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7783 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7785 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7786 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7787 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7790 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7791 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7792 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7793 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7794 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7795 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7797 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7798 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7799 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7800 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7801 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7802 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7803 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7804 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7805 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7806 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7807 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7809 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7810 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7811 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7812 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7814 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7815 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7816 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7817 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7818 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7819 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7820 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7821 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7823 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7824 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7825 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7826 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7827 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7829 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7830 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7831 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7832 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7833 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7834 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7836 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7837 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7838 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7839 Resolves issue 28816.
7840 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7841 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7842 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7843 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7844 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7846 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7847 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7848 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7849 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7850 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7851 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7852 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7853 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7857 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7858 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7859 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7860 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7861 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7862 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7863 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7864 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7865 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7867 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7870 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7871 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7872 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7873 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7874 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7875 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7876 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7877 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7880 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7882 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7883 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7885 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7886 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7887 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7890 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7891 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7893 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7894 Resolves ticket 28006.
7895 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7896 Resolves ticket 28012.
7897 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7898 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7899 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7900 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7904 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7905 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7906 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7909 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7910 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7911 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7913 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7914 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7915 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7916 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7917 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7918 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7919 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7920 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7922 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7923 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7924 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7925 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7926 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7928 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7929 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7930 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7931 Patches from "Mangix".
7933 o Minor features (geoip):
7934 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7935 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7937 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7938 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7941 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7942 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7943 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7944 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7945 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7946 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7948 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7949 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7950 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7951 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7954 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7955 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7956 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7957 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7959 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7960 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7961 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7964 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7965 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7966 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7967 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7969 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7970 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7971 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7972 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7974 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7975 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7976 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7977 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7978 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7979 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7981 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7982 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7983 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7984 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7985 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7987 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7988 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7989 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7990 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7991 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7993 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7994 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7995 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7997 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7998 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7999 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8001 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8002 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8003 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8004 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8006 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8007 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8008 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8010 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8011 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8012 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8013 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8014 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8017 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8018 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8019 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8020 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8021 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8024 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8025 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8026 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8027 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8028 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8030 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8031 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8032 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8033 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8034 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8035 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8036 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8037 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8039 o Minor features (geoip):
8040 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8041 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8043 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8044 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8045 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8046 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8048 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8049 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8050 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8051 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8052 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8055 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8056 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8057 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8058 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8060 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8061 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8062 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8063 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8065 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8066 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8067 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8068 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8069 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8070 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8071 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8072 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8074 o Minor features (geoip):
8075 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8076 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8078 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8079 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8080 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8081 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8083 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8084 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8085 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8086 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8087 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8090 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8091 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8092 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8093 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8094 to this version, or to a later series.
8096 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8097 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8098 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8099 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8100 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8101 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8103 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8104 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8105 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8106 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8107 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8110 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8111 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8112 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8113 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8115 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8116 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8117 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8118 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8119 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8120 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8121 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8122 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8124 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8125 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8126 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8127 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8129 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8130 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8131 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8132 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8133 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8135 o Minor features (geoip):
8136 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8137 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8139 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8140 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8141 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8142 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8143 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8144 Closes ticket 28973.
8146 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8147 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8148 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8149 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8151 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8152 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8153 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8156 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8157 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8158 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8160 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8161 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8162 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8163 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8165 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8166 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8167 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8168 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8170 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8171 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8172 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8173 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8174 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8175 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8178 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8179 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8180 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8183 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8184 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8185 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8186 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8187 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8189 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8190 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8191 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8192 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8193 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8195 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8196 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8197 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8198 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8199 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8200 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8202 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8203 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8204 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8207 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8208 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8209 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8211 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8212 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8213 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8215 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8216 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8217 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8220 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8221 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8222 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8223 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8224 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8225 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8226 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8227 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8229 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8230 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8231 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8232 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8234 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8235 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8236 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8237 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8238 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8239 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8240 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8241 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8242 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8243 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8245 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8246 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8247 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8248 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8249 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8250 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8252 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8253 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8254 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8255 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8256 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8258 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8259 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8260 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8263 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8264 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8265 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8266 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8269 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8270 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8271 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8274 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8275 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8276 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8277 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8278 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8281 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8282 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8283 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8284 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8285 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8286 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8287 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8289 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8290 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8291 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8294 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8295 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8296 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8297 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8298 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8301 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8302 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8303 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8304 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8305 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8307 o Minor features (geoip):
8308 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8309 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8311 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8312 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8313 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8314 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8315 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8316 Closes ticket 28973.
8318 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8319 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8320 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8321 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8323 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8324 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8325 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8326 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8327 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8330 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8331 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8332 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8333 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8335 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8336 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8337 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8339 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8340 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8341 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8342 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8344 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8345 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8346 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8347 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8348 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8349 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8352 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8353 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8354 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8356 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8357 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8358 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8359 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8360 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8362 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8363 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8364 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8365 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8366 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8367 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8369 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8370 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8371 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8372 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8374 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8375 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8376 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8379 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8380 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8381 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8382 affecting directory caches.
8384 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8385 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8386 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8387 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8388 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8389 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8390 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8391 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8393 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8394 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8395 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8396 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8397 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8398 so it will recognize them.
8400 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8401 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8402 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8403 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8404 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8405 with the latest stable release.)
8407 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8408 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8410 o Major features (bootstrap):
8411 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8412 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8413 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8414 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8416 o Major features (new code layout):
8417 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8418 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8419 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8420 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8421 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8422 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8423 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8425 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8426 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8427 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8429 o Major features (onion services v3):
8430 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8431 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8432 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8433 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8434 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8435 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8436 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8437 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8438 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8439 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8440 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8441 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8442 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8443 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8444 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8445 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8446 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8447 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8449 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8450 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8451 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8452 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8453 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8454 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8456 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8457 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8458 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8459 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8460 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8461 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8462 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8464 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8465 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8466 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8467 (if present), and restart Tor.
8469 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8470 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8471 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8472 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8473 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8474 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8475 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8476 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8478 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8479 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8480 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8482 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8483 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8484 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8485 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8486 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8487 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8489 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8490 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8491 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8492 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8495 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8496 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8497 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8498 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8499 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8501 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8502 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8503 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8504 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8505 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8507 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8508 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8509 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8510 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8511 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8512 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8514 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8515 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8516 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8517 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8518 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8521 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8522 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8523 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8524 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8525 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8526 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8528 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8529 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8530 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8531 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8532 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8534 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8535 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8536 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8537 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8538 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8539 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8541 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8542 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8543 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8544 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8546 o Minor features (admin tools):
8547 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8548 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8551 o Minor features (build):
8552 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8553 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8554 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8555 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8557 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8558 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8559 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8560 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8561 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8563 o Minor features (code layout):
8564 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8565 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8566 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8567 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8570 o Minor features (compilation):
8571 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8572 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8573 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8574 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8575 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8576 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8579 o Minor features (config):
8580 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8583 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8584 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8586 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8587 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8588 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8589 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8590 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8591 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8592 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8594 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8595 Implements ticket 27252.
8596 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8597 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8598 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8599 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8600 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8601 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8602 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8603 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8604 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8606 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8607 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8608 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8610 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8611 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8613 o Minor features (controller):
8614 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8615 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8616 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8617 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8618 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8619 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8620 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8621 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8623 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8624 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8625 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8626 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8628 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8629 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8630 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8631 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8633 o Minor features (development):
8634 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8635 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8637 o Minor features (directory authority):
8638 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8639 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8640 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8641 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8643 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8644 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8647 o Minor features (embedding API):
8648 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8649 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8650 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8651 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8652 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8653 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8656 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8657 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8658 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8659 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8660 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8662 o Minor features (geoip):
8663 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8664 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8666 o Minor features (memory management):
8667 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8668 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8671 o Minor features (memory usage):
8672 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8673 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8674 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8676 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8677 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8678 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8679 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8680 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8681 Closes ticket 28973.
8683 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8684 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8685 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8687 o Minor features (performance):
8688 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8689 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8690 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8691 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8692 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8693 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8694 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8695 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8696 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8697 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8699 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8700 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8701 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8702 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8704 o Minor features (testing):
8705 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8706 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8708 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8709 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8710 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8712 o Minor features (UI):
8713 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8714 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8715 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8716 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8717 Closes ticket 26703.
8719 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8720 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8721 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8722 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8723 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8725 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8726 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8727 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8728 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8729 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8732 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8733 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8734 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8735 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8737 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8738 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8739 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8740 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8741 - Use time_t for all values in
8742 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8743 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8744 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8746 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8747 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8748 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8749 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8750 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8753 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8754 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8755 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8756 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8757 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8758 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8760 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8761 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8762 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8763 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8765 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8766 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8767 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8770 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8771 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8772 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8773 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8775 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8776 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8777 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8780 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8781 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8782 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8783 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8784 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8786 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8787 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8788 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8789 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8790 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8793 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8794 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8795 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8796 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8797 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8798 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8799 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8800 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8801 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8802 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8803 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8804 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8805 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8807 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8808 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8809 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8811 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8812 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8813 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8814 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8815 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8818 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8819 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8820 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8821 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8822 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8824 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8825 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8826 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8828 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8829 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8830 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8831 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8832 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8833 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8836 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8837 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8838 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8841 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8842 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8843 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8844 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8845 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8847 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8848 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8849 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8852 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8853 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8854 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8856 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8857 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8858 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8859 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8860 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8861 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8863 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8864 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8865 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8866 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8867 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8869 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8870 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8871 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8872 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8873 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8875 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8876 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8877 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8879 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8880 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8881 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8882 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8885 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8886 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8887 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8888 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8889 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8890 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8891 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8892 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8893 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8895 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8896 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8898 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8899 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8900 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8901 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8902 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8903 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8904 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8905 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8906 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8907 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8908 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8910 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8911 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8912 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8913 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8915 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8916 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8917 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8918 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8919 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8921 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8922 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8923 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8924 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8926 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8927 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8928 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8931 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8932 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8934 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8935 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8936 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8937 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8938 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8939 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8940 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8941 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8942 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8943 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8945 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8946 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8947 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8948 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8949 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8951 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8952 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8953 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8954 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8956 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8957 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8958 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8959 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8960 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8961 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8962 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8963 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8964 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8965 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8967 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8968 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8969 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8970 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8971 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8972 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8973 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
8974 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
8975 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
8977 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
8978 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
8979 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8980 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
8981 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
8982 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8983 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8984 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8985 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8986 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8987 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
8988 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
8989 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
8990 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
8991 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8993 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
8994 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
8995 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
8996 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
8997 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
8998 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
8999 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9000 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9002 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9003 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9004 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9005 reported by Keifer Bly.
9007 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9008 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9009 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9011 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9012 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9013 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9014 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9015 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9016 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9017 Closes ticket 27814.
9018 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9019 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9020 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9021 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9022 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9023 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9024 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9025 Closes ticket 27799.
9026 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9027 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9028 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9029 directory within the top-level src directory.
9030 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9031 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9032 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9033 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9034 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9035 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9036 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9037 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9038 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9039 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9040 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9041 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9042 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9043 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9044 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9045 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9046 Closes ticket 21349.
9047 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9048 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9049 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9050 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9051 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9052 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9053 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9055 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9056 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9057 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9060 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9061 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9062 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9063 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9064 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9065 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9066 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9067 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9068 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9071 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9072 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9073 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9074 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9075 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9076 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9077 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9078 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9079 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9080 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9081 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9082 Closes ticket 26367.
9085 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9086 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9088 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9089 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9090 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9091 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9092 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9093 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9094 Closes ticket 19566.
9096 o Documentation (onion services):
9097 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9098 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9099 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9100 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9101 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9102 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9103 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9104 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9107 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9108 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9109 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9110 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9111 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9113 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9114 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9115 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9117 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9118 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9119 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9120 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9121 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9123 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9124 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9125 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9126 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9127 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9130 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9131 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9132 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9133 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9135 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9136 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9137 Implements ticket 27252.
9138 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9139 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9140 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9141 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9142 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9143 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9144 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9146 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9147 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9148 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9149 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9151 o Minor features (geoip):
9152 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9153 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9155 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9156 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9157 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9158 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9159 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9161 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9162 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9163 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9164 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9165 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9168 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9169 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9170 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9173 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9174 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9175 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9176 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9177 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9179 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9180 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9181 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9183 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9184 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9185 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9187 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9188 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9189 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9190 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9192 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9193 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9194 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9196 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9197 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9198 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9201 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9202 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9203 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9205 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9206 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9207 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9210 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9211 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9212 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9213 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9214 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9216 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9217 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9218 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9219 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9220 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9221 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9223 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9224 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9225 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9228 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9229 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9230 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9231 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9232 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9233 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9234 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9235 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9237 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9238 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9239 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9240 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9242 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9243 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9244 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9245 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9246 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9248 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9249 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9250 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9251 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9252 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9253 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9255 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9256 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9257 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9258 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9259 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9260 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9262 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9263 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9264 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9265 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9268 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9269 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9270 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9271 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9272 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9275 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9276 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9278 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9279 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9280 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9281 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9283 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9284 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9286 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9287 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9288 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9289 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9291 o Minor features (geoip):
9292 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9293 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9295 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9296 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9297 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9298 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9300 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9301 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9302 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9303 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9304 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9305 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9306 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9307 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9310 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9311 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9312 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9313 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9315 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9316 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9317 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9318 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9320 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9321 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9322 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9323 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9325 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9326 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9327 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9328 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9329 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9331 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9332 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9333 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9336 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9337 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9338 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9339 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9340 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9342 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9343 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9344 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9347 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9348 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9349 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9350 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9352 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9353 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9354 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9356 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9357 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9358 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9361 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9362 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9363 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9364 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9365 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9367 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9368 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9369 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9372 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9373 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9375 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9376 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9377 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9378 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9380 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9381 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9383 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9384 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9385 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9386 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9388 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9389 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9392 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9393 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9394 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9395 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9397 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9398 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9399 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9400 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9402 o Minor features (geoip):
9403 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9404 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9406 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9407 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9408 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9409 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9410 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9411 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9412 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9414 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9415 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9416 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9417 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9418 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9419 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9420 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9421 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9424 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9425 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9426 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9427 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9429 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9430 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9431 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9432 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9434 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9435 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9436 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9437 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9438 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9440 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9441 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9442 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9443 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9444 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9446 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9447 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9448 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9451 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9452 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9453 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9454 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9455 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9457 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9458 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9459 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9462 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9463 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9464 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9467 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9468 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9469 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9472 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9473 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9475 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9476 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9477 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9478 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9480 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9481 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9482 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9483 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9486 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9487 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9489 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9490 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9491 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9492 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9493 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9494 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9495 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9498 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9499 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9500 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9501 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9502 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9504 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9505 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9506 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9507 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9508 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9510 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9511 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9512 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9515 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9516 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9518 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9519 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9520 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9521 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9523 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9524 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9525 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9526 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9528 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9529 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9530 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9532 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9533 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9534 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9535 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9537 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9538 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9541 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9542 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9543 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9544 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9546 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9547 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9548 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9549 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9551 o Minor features (geoip):
9552 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9553 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9555 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9556 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9557 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9558 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9559 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9560 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9561 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9563 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9564 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9565 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9566 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9567 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9568 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9569 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9570 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9573 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9574 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9575 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9576 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9578 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9579 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9580 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9581 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9584 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9585 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9586 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9587 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9589 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9590 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9591 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9592 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9593 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9595 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9596 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9597 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9600 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9601 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9602 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9603 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9605 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9606 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9607 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9608 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9609 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9611 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9612 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9613 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9616 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9617 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9618 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9621 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9622 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9623 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9626 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9627 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9628 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9629 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9631 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9632 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9633 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9636 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9637 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9639 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9640 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9641 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9642 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9643 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9644 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9645 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9647 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9648 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9649 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9650 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9651 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9653 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9654 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9655 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9656 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9658 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9659 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9660 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9662 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9663 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9664 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9665 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9666 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9667 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9668 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9671 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9672 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9673 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9674 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9675 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9677 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9678 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9679 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9680 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9681 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9683 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9684 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9685 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9688 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9689 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9690 compilation and portability fixes.
9692 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9693 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9694 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9695 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9696 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9697 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9698 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9699 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9701 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9702 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9704 o New system requirements:
9705 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9706 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9707 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9708 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9710 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9711 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9712 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9713 To disable the module, the configure option
9714 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9715 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9717 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9718 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9719 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9720 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9721 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9722 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9723 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9724 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9725 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9726 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9727 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9729 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9730 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9731 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9732 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9733 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9734 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9735 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9736 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9737 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9738 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9739 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9740 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9741 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9742 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9743 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9744 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9745 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9746 Tor's uptime (26009).
9748 o Minor features (accounting):
9749 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9750 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9751 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9752 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9754 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9755 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9756 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9757 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9759 o Minor features (code quality):
9760 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9761 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9762 Closes ticket 25024.
9764 o Minor features (compatibility):
9765 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9766 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9767 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9768 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9769 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9770 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9772 o Minor features (compilation):
9773 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9774 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9775 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9776 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9777 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9778 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9779 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9780 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9783 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9784 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9785 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9786 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9787 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9788 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9790 o Minor features (configuration):
9791 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9792 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9793 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9794 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9795 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9797 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9798 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9799 Implements ticket 27449.
9800 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9801 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9803 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9804 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9806 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9807 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9808 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9809 Implements ticket 27275.
9810 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9811 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9812 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9813 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9814 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9816 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9817 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9820 o Minor features (control port):
9821 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9822 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9823 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9824 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9825 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9826 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9827 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9828 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9829 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9830 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9832 o Minor features (controller):
9833 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9834 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9835 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9837 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9838 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9839 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9840 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9841 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9842 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9843 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9845 o Minor features (directory authority):
9846 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9847 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9848 Closes ticket 23909.
9850 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9851 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9852 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9853 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9855 o Minor features (entry guards):
9856 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9857 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9859 o Minor features (geoip):
9860 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9861 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9863 o Minor features (performance):
9864 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9865 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9866 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9867 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9869 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9870 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9872 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9873 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9875 o Minor features (testing):
9876 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9877 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9879 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9880 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9881 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9882 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9883 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9884 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9886 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9887 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9888 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9889 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9890 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9892 o Minor features (unit tests):
9893 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9894 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9895 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9898 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9899 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9900 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9901 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9902 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9903 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9905 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9906 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9907 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9908 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9910 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9911 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9912 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9913 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9914 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9916 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9917 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9918 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9919 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9920 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9921 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9922 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9923 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9925 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9926 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9927 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9928 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9929 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9930 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9931 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9932 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9933 Closes ticket 26245.
9934 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9935 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9936 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9938 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9939 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9940 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9941 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9943 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9944 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9945 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9946 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9947 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9949 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9950 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9951 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9952 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9953 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9954 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9955 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9956 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9957 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9958 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9959 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9960 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9962 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9963 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9964 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9967 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9968 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9969 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9972 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
9973 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
9974 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9975 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
9976 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
9977 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
9980 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
9981 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
9982 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
9983 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
9984 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
9985 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
9986 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9988 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
9989 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9990 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9991 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9993 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
9994 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9995 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9996 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9997 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9999 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10000 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10001 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10004 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10005 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10006 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10008 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10009 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10011 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10012 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10013 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10014 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10015 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10017 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10018 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10019 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10021 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10022 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10023 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10024 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10025 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10028 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10029 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10030 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10031 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10033 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10034 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10035 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10036 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10037 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10038 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10039 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10041 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10042 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10044 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10045 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10046 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10047 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10048 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10050 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10051 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10052 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10053 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10054 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10056 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10057 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10058 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10059 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10061 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10062 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10063 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10064 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10067 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10068 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10069 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10070 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10071 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10072 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10073 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10074 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10075 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10076 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10078 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10079 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10080 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10081 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10082 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10083 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10084 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10086 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10087 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10088 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10089 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10090 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10092 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10093 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10094 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10097 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10098 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10099 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10100 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10101 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10103 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10104 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10105 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10106 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10107 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10108 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10109 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10112 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10113 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10114 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10115 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10116 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10118 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10119 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10120 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10121 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10122 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10124 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10125 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10126 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10127 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10128 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10129 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10131 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10132 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10133 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10135 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10136 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10137 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10138 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10139 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10140 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10141 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10142 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10144 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10145 confusing we renamed some functions and
10146 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10147 router_should_check_reachability() and
10148 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10149 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10150 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10151 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10152 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10154 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10155 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10157 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10158 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10159 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10160 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10161 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10162 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10163 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10164 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10165 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10166 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10167 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10168 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10169 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10170 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10171 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10172 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10173 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10174 Closes ticket 25766.
10175 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10176 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10177 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10178 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10179 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10180 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10181 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10182 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10183 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10184 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10185 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10186 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10187 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10188 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10190 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10191 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10192 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10193 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10194 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10195 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10196 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10197 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10198 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10200 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10201 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10202 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10203 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10205 o Deprecated features:
10206 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10207 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10208 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10209 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10210 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10211 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10213 o Removed features:
10214 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10215 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10216 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10217 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10218 24378 and proposal 290.
10219 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10220 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10221 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10222 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10223 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10224 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10225 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10226 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10227 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10228 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10229 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10230 their local router. Closes 25409.
10231 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10232 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10233 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10234 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10235 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10236 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10237 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10238 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10239 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10240 Closes ticket 25268.
10243 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10244 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10245 bridge relays should upgrade.
10247 o Directory authority changes:
10248 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10249 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10250 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10253 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10254 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10255 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10258 o Directory authority changes:
10259 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10260 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10261 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10263 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10264 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10265 Closes ticket 26343.
10267 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10268 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10269 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10270 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10271 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10273 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10274 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10275 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10277 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10278 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10279 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10280 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10282 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10283 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10284 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10286 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10287 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10288 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10289 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10290 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10291 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10293 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10294 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10295 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10296 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10298 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10299 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10300 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10303 o Minor features (geoip):
10304 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10305 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10307 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10308 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10309 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10310 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10311 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10313 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10314 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10315 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10317 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10318 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10319 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10320 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10321 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10322 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10323 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10324 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10327 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10328 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10329 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10330 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10331 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10332 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10334 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10335 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10336 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10337 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10338 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10340 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10341 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10342 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10343 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10344 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10346 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10347 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10348 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10351 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10352 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10353 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10355 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10356 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10357 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10358 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10360 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10361 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10362 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10363 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10364 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10365 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10366 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10368 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10369 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10370 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10371 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10374 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10375 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10376 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10378 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10379 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10380 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10382 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10383 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10384 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10385 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10388 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10389 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10390 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10391 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10393 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10394 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10395 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10397 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10398 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10399 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10402 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10403 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10404 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10407 o Directory authority changes:
10408 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10409 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10410 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10412 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10413 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10414 Closes ticket 26343.
10416 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10417 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10418 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10419 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10420 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10422 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10423 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10424 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10425 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10427 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10428 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10429 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10430 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10431 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10432 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10434 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10435 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10436 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10439 o Minor features (geoip):
10440 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10441 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10443 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10444 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10445 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10446 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10447 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10449 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10450 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10451 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10453 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10454 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10455 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10456 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10459 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10460 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10461 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10462 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10463 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10464 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10466 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10467 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10468 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10469 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10470 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10472 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10473 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10474 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10477 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10478 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10479 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10481 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10482 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10483 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10484 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10486 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10487 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10488 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10490 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10491 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10492 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10495 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10496 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10497 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10499 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10500 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10501 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10502 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10504 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10505 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10506 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10509 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10510 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10511 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10514 o Minor features (geoip):
10515 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10516 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10518 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10519 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10520 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10521 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10523 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10524 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10525 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10526 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10527 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10530 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10531 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10532 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10533 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10534 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10536 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10537 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10538 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10539 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10541 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10542 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10543 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10545 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10546 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10547 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10548 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10551 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10552 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10553 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10554 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10556 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10557 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10558 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10559 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10560 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10561 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10562 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10563 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10567 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10568 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10569 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10571 o Directory authority changes:
10572 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10573 Closes ticket 26343.
10575 o Minor features (geoip):
10576 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10577 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10579 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10580 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10581 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10582 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10583 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10584 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10586 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10587 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10588 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10590 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10591 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10592 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10593 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10594 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10596 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10597 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10598 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10600 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10601 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10602 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10603 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10604 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10605 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10608 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10609 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10610 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10612 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10613 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10614 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10615 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10616 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10617 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10619 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10620 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10622 o New system requirements:
10623 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10624 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10626 o Major features (embedding):
10627 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10628 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10629 Closes ticket 23684.
10630 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10631 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10632 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10633 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10634 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10635 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10637 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10638 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10639 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10640 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10642 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10643 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10644 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10645 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10646 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10648 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10649 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10652 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10653 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10654 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10655 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10656 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10657 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10658 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10660 o Major features (onion services):
10661 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10662 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10663 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10664 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10665 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10667 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10668 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10669 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10670 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10671 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10672 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10674 o Major features (relay):
10675 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10676 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10677 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10678 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10679 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10681 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10682 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10683 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10684 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10685 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10686 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10687 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10688 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10690 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10691 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10692 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10693 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10694 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10696 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10697 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10698 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10699 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10700 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10702 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10703 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10704 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10705 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10707 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10708 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10709 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10710 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10711 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10712 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10713 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10714 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10716 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10717 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10718 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10719 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10721 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10722 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10723 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10725 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10726 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10727 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10728 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10729 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10730 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10731 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10733 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10734 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10735 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10736 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10737 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10739 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10740 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10741 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10744 o Minor features (cleanup):
10745 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10746 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10748 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10749 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10750 Closes ticket 26006.
10752 o Minor features (config options):
10753 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10754 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10755 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10758 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10759 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10760 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10762 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10763 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10764 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10765 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10766 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10767 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10769 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10770 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10771 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10772 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10773 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10774 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10775 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10776 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10777 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10778 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10780 o Minor features (directory authority):
10781 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10782 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10784 o Minor features (embedding):
10785 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10786 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10787 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10788 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10789 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10790 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10791 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10792 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10793 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10794 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10795 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10796 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10797 Closes ticket 23848.
10798 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10799 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10800 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10802 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10803 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10804 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10805 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10806 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10807 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10808 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10809 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10812 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10813 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10814 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10815 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10816 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10817 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10818 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10820 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10821 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10822 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10823 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10824 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10825 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10826 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10827 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10828 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10829 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10830 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10831 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10833 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10834 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10835 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10837 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10838 Implements ticket 24791.
10840 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10841 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10842 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10843 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10844 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10845 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10847 o Minor features (geoip):
10848 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10849 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10851 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10852 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10853 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10856 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10857 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10858 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10859 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10860 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10862 o Minor features (IPv6):
10863 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10864 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10865 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10866 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10867 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10870 o Minor features (log messages):
10871 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10872 information about memory usage from the different compression
10873 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10874 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10875 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10876 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10877 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10879 o Minor features (logging):
10880 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10881 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10882 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10885 o Minor features (performance):
10886 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10887 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10888 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10889 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10891 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10892 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10893 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10894 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10895 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10896 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10897 Implements ticket 24374.
10899 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10900 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10901 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10902 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10903 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10905 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10906 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10907 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10908 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10911 o Minor features (sandbox):
10912 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10913 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10914 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10916 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10917 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10918 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10919 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10920 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10922 o Minor features (testing):
10923 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10926 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10927 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10928 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10929 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10930 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10931 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10932 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10933 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10934 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10936 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10937 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10938 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10939 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10940 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10941 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10942 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10943 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10944 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10947 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10948 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10949 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10950 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10952 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10953 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10954 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10956 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10957 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10958 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10959 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10960 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10962 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10963 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10964 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10967 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10968 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10969 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10970 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10972 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
10973 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
10974 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
10975 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
10976 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
10977 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
10978 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10980 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
10981 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
10982 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
10983 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
10985 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10986 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10987 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10988 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10989 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10991 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
10992 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
10993 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
10994 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
10997 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
10998 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10999 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11000 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11001 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11003 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11004 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11005 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11006 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11007 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11010 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11011 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11012 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11013 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11014 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11016 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11017 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11018 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11021 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11022 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11023 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11025 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11026 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11027 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11028 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11029 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11031 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11032 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11033 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11034 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11036 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11037 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11038 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11039 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11040 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11041 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11043 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11044 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11045 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11046 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11048 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11049 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11050 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11052 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11053 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11054 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11055 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11057 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11058 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11059 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
11060 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
11063 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11064 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11065 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11066 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11067 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11068 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11071 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
11072 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11073 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11074 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11076 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11077 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11078 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11080 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11081 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
11082 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
11083 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
11084 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
11085 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11087 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11088 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11089 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11090 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11091 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11092 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11093 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11095 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11096 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11097 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11098 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11100 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11101 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11102 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11103 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11104 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11106 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11107 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11108 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11109 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11110 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11111 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11113 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11114 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11115 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11116 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11117 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11118 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11119 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11120 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11121 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11122 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11123 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11124 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11126 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11127 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11128 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11130 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11131 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11132 would call the Rust implementation of
11133 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11134 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11135 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11136 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11137 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11139 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
11140 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11141 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11142 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11144 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11145 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11146 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11147 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11149 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11150 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11152 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11153 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11154 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11155 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11156 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11157 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11159 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11160 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11161 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11162 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11163 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11165 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11167 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11168 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11169 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11171 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11173 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11174 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11175 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11176 "aruna1234" and teor.
11177 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11178 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11179 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11180 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11182 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11183 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11184 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11185 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11186 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11187 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11188 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11189 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11190 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11191 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11193 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11194 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11197 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11199 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11200 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11201 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11202 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11204 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11205 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11206 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11207 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11209 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11210 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11211 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11212 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11213 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11215 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11216 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11217 adding very little except for unit test.
11219 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11220 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11221 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11222 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11224 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11225 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11226 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11228 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11229 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11230 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11232 o Documentation (man page):
11233 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11234 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11237 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11238 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11239 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11243 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11244 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11247 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11248 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11250 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11251 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11253 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11256 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11257 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11258 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11260 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11261 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11262 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11263 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11266 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11267 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11268 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11269 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11272 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11273 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11274 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11275 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11276 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11277 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11278 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11279 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11280 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11281 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11282 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11283 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11284 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11286 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11287 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11288 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11290 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11291 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11292 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11293 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11294 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11295 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11296 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11298 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11299 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11300 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11302 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11303 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11304 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11305 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11306 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11307 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11308 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11310 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11311 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11312 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11313 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11315 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11316 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11317 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11318 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11320 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11321 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11322 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11323 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11324 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11325 Closes ticket 24978.
11327 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11328 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11329 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11330 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11331 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11332 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11333 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11334 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11335 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11337 o Minor features (geoip):
11338 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11341 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11342 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11343 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11344 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11345 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11347 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11348 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11349 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11350 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11351 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11353 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11354 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11355 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11356 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11357 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11360 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11361 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11362 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11363 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11364 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11365 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11366 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11367 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11368 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11369 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11370 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11373 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11374 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11375 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11377 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11378 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11379 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11382 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11383 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11384 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11385 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11386 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11387 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11388 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11390 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11391 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11392 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11393 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11394 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11395 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11396 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11397 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11398 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11401 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11402 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11403 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11404 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11405 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11406 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11408 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11409 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11410 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11411 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11413 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11414 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11415 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11416 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11417 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11420 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11421 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11422 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11423 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11424 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11425 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11427 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11428 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11429 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11430 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11431 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11432 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11433 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11434 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11435 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11436 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11437 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11438 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11440 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11441 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11442 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11443 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11445 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11446 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11447 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11448 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11450 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11451 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11452 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11453 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11456 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11457 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11458 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11459 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11460 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11462 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11463 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11465 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11466 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11468 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11469 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11470 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11473 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11474 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11475 later Tor releases.
11477 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11478 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11480 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11481 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11483 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11486 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11487 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11488 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11490 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11491 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11492 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11493 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11496 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11497 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11498 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11499 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11500 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11501 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11502 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11503 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11504 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11505 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11506 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11507 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11508 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11510 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11511 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11512 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11513 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11514 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11515 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11516 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11517 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11518 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11520 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11521 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11522 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11523 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11524 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11525 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11526 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11528 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11529 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11530 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11531 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11533 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11534 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11535 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11536 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11537 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11538 Closes ticket 24978.
11540 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11541 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11542 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11543 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11545 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11546 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11547 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11548 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11549 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11550 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11551 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11552 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11553 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11555 o Minor features (geoip):
11556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11559 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11560 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11561 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11563 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11564 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11565 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11566 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11567 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11569 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11570 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11571 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11572 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11573 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11575 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11576 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11577 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11578 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11579 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11582 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11583 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11584 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11586 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11587 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11588 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11591 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11592 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11593 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11594 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11595 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11596 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11597 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11599 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11600 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11601 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11602 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11603 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11606 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11607 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11608 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11609 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11610 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11611 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11613 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11614 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11615 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11616 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11618 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11619 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11620 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11621 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11622 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11623 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11624 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11625 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11626 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11627 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11628 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11629 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11631 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11632 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11633 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11634 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11637 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11638 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11639 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11640 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11641 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11643 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11644 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11646 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11647 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11650 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11651 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11652 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11655 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11656 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11658 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11659 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11660 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11661 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11662 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11663 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11666 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11667 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11669 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11672 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11673 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11674 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11675 the DoS mitigations.)
11677 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11678 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11679 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11680 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11683 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11684 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11685 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11686 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11688 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11689 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11690 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11691 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11692 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11693 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11694 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11695 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11696 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11697 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11698 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11699 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11700 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11702 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11703 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11704 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11705 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11706 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11707 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11708 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11709 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11710 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11711 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11712 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11714 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11715 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11716 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11718 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11719 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11720 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11721 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11722 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11723 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11724 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11726 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11727 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11728 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11729 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11731 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11732 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11733 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11734 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11736 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11737 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11738 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11739 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11740 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11741 Closes ticket 24978.
11743 o Minor features (geoip):
11744 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11747 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11748 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11749 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11752 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11753 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11754 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11755 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11756 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11758 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11759 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11760 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11761 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11762 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11763 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11764 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11766 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
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 (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11773 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11774 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11775 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11777 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11778 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11779 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11780 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11781 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11783 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11784 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11785 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11786 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11788 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11789 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11790 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11791 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11793 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11794 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11795 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11796 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11798 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11799 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11801 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11802 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11804 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11805 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11806 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11808 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11809 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11810 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11811 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11812 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11814 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11815 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11816 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11818 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11819 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11820 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11824 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11825 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11827 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11828 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11829 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11830 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11831 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11832 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11834 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11835 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11836 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11837 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11838 with the 0.2.9 series.
11840 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11841 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11843 o Directory authority changes:
11844 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11845 Closes ticket 23910.
11846 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11847 Closes ticket 23592.
11848 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11849 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11850 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11851 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11852 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11855 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11856 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11857 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11858 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11859 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11860 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11863 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11864 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11866 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11869 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11872 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11874 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11876 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11878 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11879 they are 56 characters long, as in
11880 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11882 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11883 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11884 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11885 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11886 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11889 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11890 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11891 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11892 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11893 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11894 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11895 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11897 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11898 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11899 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11900 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11901 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11902 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11903 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11904 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11905 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11906 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11907 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11908 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11910 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11911 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11912 more information, see the design paper at
11913 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11914 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11915 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11916 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11918 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11919 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11920 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11921 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11922 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11923 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11924 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11925 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11927 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11928 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11929 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11930 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11933 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11934 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11935 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11936 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11937 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11938 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11939 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11940 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11941 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11942 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11943 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11944 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11947 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11948 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11949 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11950 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11951 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11952 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11953 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11954 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11955 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11957 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11958 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11959 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11960 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11961 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11962 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11963 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11964 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11965 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11966 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11967 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11970 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11971 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
11972 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
11973 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
11974 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
11975 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
11976 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
11978 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
11979 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
11980 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
11981 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
11982 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
11983 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
11986 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
11987 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
11988 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
11989 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
11991 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
11992 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
11993 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
11994 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
11996 o Minor features (bridge):
11997 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
11998 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
11999 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12000 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12001 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12002 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12003 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12004 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12005 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12006 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12007 related to ticket 23080.
12009 o Minor features (bug detection):
12010 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12011 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12012 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12014 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12015 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12016 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12017 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12018 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12019 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12020 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12021 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12022 Closes ticket 23643.
12024 o Minor features (client):
12025 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12026 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12027 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12028 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12029 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12030 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12031 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12032 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12033 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12034 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12035 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12036 Resolves ticket 23670.
12038 o Minor features (command line):
12039 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12040 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12041 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12043 o Minor features (control port):
12044 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12045 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12046 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12048 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12049 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12051 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12052 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12053 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12054 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12055 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12056 Closes ticket 23237.
12057 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12058 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12060 o Minor features (development support):
12061 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12062 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12063 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12064 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12065 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12066 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12068 o Minor features (directory authority):
12069 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12070 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12071 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12072 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12074 o Minor features (ed25519):
12075 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12076 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12077 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12079 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12080 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12081 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12083 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12084 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12085 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12086 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12087 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12088 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12089 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12090 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12091 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12093 o Minor features (geoip):
12094 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12097 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12098 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12099 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12100 another program, regardless of the settings of
12101 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12102 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12103 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12105 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12106 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12107 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12109 o Minor features (logging):
12110 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12112 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12113 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12115 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12116 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12117 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12118 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12119 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12120 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12121 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12122 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12123 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12124 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12126 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12127 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12129 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
12130 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12131 the circuit identifier(s).
12132 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12133 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12135 o Minor features (portability):
12136 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12137 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12139 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12140 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12141 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12142 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12144 o Minor features (relay):
12145 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12146 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12147 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12148 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12149 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12150 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12151 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12152 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12154 o Minor features (relay statistics):
12155 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12156 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12157 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12159 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
12160 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12161 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12162 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12163 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12165 o Minor features (robustness):
12166 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12167 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12169 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12170 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12171 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12174 o Minor features (static analysis):
12175 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12176 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12179 o Minor features (testing):
12180 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12181 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12182 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12183 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12185 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12186 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12187 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12188 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
12189 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12191 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12192 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12193 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12194 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12195 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12198 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12199 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12200 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12203 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12204 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12205 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12206 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12207 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12208 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12209 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12210 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12211 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12212 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12213 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12214 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12215 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12217 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12218 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12219 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12220 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12222 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12223 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12224 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12225 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12226 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12227 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12228 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12229 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12230 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12231 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12232 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12233 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12234 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12235 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12236 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12237 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12238 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12240 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12241 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12242 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12243 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12245 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12246 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12247 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12248 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12250 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12251 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12252 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12253 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12254 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12255 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12256 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12257 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12259 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12260 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12261 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12262 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12263 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12264 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12265 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12266 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12267 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12268 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12269 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12270 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12271 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12272 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12275 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12276 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12277 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12280 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12281 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12282 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12283 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12285 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12286 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12287 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12290 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12291 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12292 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12293 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12295 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12296 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12297 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12298 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12299 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12300 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12301 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12302 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12303 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12306 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12307 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12308 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12309 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12310 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12312 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12313 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12314 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12315 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12316 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12317 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12319 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12320 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12323 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12324 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12325 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12326 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12327 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12328 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12330 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12331 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12332 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12333 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12335 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12336 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12337 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12338 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12339 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12340 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12342 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12343 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12344 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12345 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12346 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12347 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12348 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12351 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12352 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12353 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12354 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12356 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12357 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12358 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12359 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12360 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12361 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12362 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12363 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12364 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12365 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12367 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12368 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12369 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12371 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12372 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12373 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12375 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12376 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12377 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12378 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12379 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12380 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12382 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12383 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12384 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12385 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12386 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12387 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12389 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12390 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12391 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12393 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12394 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12395 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12396 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12397 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12400 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12401 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12402 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12403 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12404 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12405 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12407 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12408 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12409 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12410 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12411 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12412 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12413 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12415 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12416 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12417 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12418 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12419 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12420 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12421 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12422 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12423 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12425 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12426 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12427 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12428 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12429 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12430 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12431 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12432 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12433 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12434 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12435 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12436 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12438 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12439 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12440 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12441 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12442 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12443 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12446 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12447 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12448 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12449 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12450 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12451 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12452 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12453 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12454 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12455 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12456 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12457 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12459 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12460 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12461 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12462 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12463 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12464 Closes ticket 24109.
12465 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12466 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12467 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12468 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12470 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12471 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12473 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12474 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12475 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12476 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12477 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12478 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12479 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12480 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12481 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12482 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12483 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12485 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12486 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12487 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12488 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12490 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12491 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12492 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12494 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12495 function from the general code to handle channel state
12496 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12497 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12498 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12499 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12500 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12501 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12502 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12503 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12505 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12506 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12508 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12509 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12510 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12511 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12512 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12513 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12514 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12515 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12516 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12517 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12518 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12519 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12521 o Deprecated features:
12522 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12523 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12524 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12525 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12526 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12527 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12531 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12532 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12533 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12534 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12535 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12536 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12537 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12538 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12539 Closes ticket 18736.
12540 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12541 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12542 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12543 Closes ticket 15645.
12544 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12545 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12546 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12547 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12549 o Removed features:
12550 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12551 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12552 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12553 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12554 Closes ticket 21031.
12555 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12556 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12559 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12560 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12561 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12562 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12564 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12565 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12566 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12567 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12568 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12569 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12570 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12571 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12572 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12573 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12574 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12576 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12577 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12578 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12579 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12580 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12581 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12582 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12585 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12586 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12587 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12588 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12589 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12591 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12592 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12593 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12594 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12595 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12596 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12597 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12598 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12599 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12601 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12602 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12603 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12604 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12605 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12606 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12609 o Minor features (bridge):
12610 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12611 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12612 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12613 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12616 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12617 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12620 o Minor features (geoip):
12621 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12624 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12625 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12626 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12627 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12628 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12630 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12631 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12632 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12634 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12635 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12636 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12637 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12638 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12639 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12641 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12642 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12643 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12646 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12647 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12648 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12649 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12650 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12653 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12654 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12655 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12656 to another of the releases coming out today.
12658 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12659 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12660 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12662 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12663 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12664 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12665 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12666 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12667 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12668 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12669 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12670 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12671 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12672 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12674 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12675 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12676 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12677 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12678 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12679 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12680 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12683 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12684 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12685 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12686 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12687 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12689 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12690 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12691 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12692 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12693 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12694 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12695 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12696 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12697 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12699 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12700 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12701 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12702 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12703 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12704 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12707 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12708 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12709 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12710 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12711 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12712 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12714 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12715 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12716 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12717 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12718 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12721 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12722 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12725 o Minor features (geoip):
12726 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12729 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12730 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12731 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12732 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12733 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12735 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12736 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12737 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12739 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12740 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12741 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12742 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12743 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12744 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12746 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12747 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12748 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12749 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12750 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12752 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12753 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12754 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12757 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12758 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12759 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12760 to another of the releases coming out today.
12762 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12763 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12764 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12765 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12766 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12767 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12770 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12771 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12772 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12773 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12774 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12775 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12776 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12777 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12778 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12779 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12780 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12782 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12783 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12784 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12785 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12786 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12787 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12788 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12791 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12792 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12793 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12794 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12795 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12797 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12798 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12799 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12800 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12801 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12802 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12804 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12805 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12806 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12807 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12808 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12811 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12812 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12815 o Minor features (geoip):
12816 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12819 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12820 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12821 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12822 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12823 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12824 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12826 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12827 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12828 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12829 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12830 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12832 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12833 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12834 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12836 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12837 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12838 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12839 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12840 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12841 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
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.
12849 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12850 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12851 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12854 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12855 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12856 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12857 to another of the releases coming out today.
12859 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12860 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12861 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12863 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12864 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12865 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12866 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12867 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12868 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12869 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12870 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
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 through
12888 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12889 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12890 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12893 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12894 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12895 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12896 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12897 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12900 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12901 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12904 o Minor features (geoip):
12905 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12908 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12909 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12910 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12913 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12914 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12915 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12916 to another of the releases coming out today.
12918 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12919 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12920 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12922 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12923 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12924 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12925 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12926 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12927 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12928 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12929 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12930 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12931 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12932 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12933 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12934 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12935 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12936 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12939 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12940 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12941 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12942 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12943 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12944 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12946 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12947 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12948 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12949 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12950 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12953 o Minor features (geoip):
12954 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12958 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12959 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12960 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12962 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12963 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12964 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12966 o Directory authority changes:
12967 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12968 Closes ticket 23910.
12969 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12970 Closes ticket 23592.
12972 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12973 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
12974 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
12975 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
12976 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
12978 o Minor features (geoip):
12979 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12982 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
12983 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
12984 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
12985 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
12986 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
12987 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
12988 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
12989 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
12990 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
12992 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
12993 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
12994 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
12995 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
12996 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
12997 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
12998 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
12999 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13000 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13003 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13004 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13005 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13006 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13008 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13009 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13010 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13012 o Directory authority changes:
13013 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13014 Closes ticket 23910.
13015 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13016 Closes ticket 23592.
13018 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13019 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13020 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13021 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13023 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13024 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13025 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13026 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13027 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13029 o Minor features (geoip):
13030 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13034 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13035 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13036 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13037 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13039 o Directory authority changes:
13040 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13041 Closes ticket 23910.
13042 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13043 Closes ticket 23592.
13045 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13046 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13047 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13048 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13050 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13051 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13052 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13053 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13054 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13056 o Minor features (geoip):
13057 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13060 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13061 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13062 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13063 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13064 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13065 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13066 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13067 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13070 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13071 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13072 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13074 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13075 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13076 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13077 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13078 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13079 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13080 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13083 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13084 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13085 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13086 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13088 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13089 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13090 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13092 o Directory authority changes:
13093 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13094 Closes ticket 23910.
13095 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13096 Closes ticket 23592.
13098 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13099 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13100 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13101 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13103 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13104 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13105 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13106 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13107 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13109 o Minor features (geoip):
13110 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13113 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13114 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13115 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13116 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13117 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13118 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13119 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13120 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13123 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13124 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13125 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13126 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13128 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13129 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13130 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13132 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13133 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13134 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13135 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13136 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13137 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13138 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13141 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13142 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13143 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13144 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13145 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13147 o Directory authority changes:
13148 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13149 Closes ticket 23910.
13150 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13151 Closes ticket 23592.
13153 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13154 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13155 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13156 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13158 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13159 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13160 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13161 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13162 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13164 o Minor features (geoip):
13165 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13168 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13169 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13170 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13171 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13173 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13174 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13175 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13178 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13179 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13180 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13182 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13183 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13184 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13185 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13187 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13188 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13189 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13191 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13192 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13193 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13197 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13198 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13201 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13202 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13203 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13204 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13206 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13207 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13208 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13209 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13211 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13212 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13213 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13214 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13215 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13218 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13221 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13222 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13223 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13226 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13227 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13228 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13229 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13230 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13231 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13232 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13233 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13234 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13236 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13237 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13238 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13239 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13240 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13241 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13242 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13243 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13244 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13247 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13248 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13251 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13252 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13253 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13254 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13256 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13257 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13258 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13259 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13260 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13261 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13262 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13264 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13265 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13266 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13267 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13269 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13270 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13271 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13273 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13274 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13275 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13276 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13278 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13279 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13280 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13281 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13282 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13284 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13285 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13286 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13287 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13289 o Minor features (geoip):
13290 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13293 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13294 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13295 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13296 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13298 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13299 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13300 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13301 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13302 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13303 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13304 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13305 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13307 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13308 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13309 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13311 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13312 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13313 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13316 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13317 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13318 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13319 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13320 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13322 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13323 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13324 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13325 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13326 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13327 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13329 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13330 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13331 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13332 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13333 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13334 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13335 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13336 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13337 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13339 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13340 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13341 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13342 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13344 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13345 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13346 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13348 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13349 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13350 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13351 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13352 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13354 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13355 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13356 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13359 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13360 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13361 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13362 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13363 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13365 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13366 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13367 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13368 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13369 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13370 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13371 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13372 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13373 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13376 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13377 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13380 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13381 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13382 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13383 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13385 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13386 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13387 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13388 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13391 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13394 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13395 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13396 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13398 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13399 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13400 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13401 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13402 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13404 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13405 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13406 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13407 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13409 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13410 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13411 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13413 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13414 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13415 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13416 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13419 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13420 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13422 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13423 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13424 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13425 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13426 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13427 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13428 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13430 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13431 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13432 disabled. For more information, see
13433 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13435 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13436 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13437 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13438 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13439 with the 0.2.9 series.
13441 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13442 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13444 o New dependencies:
13445 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13446 pkg-config tool at build time.
13448 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13449 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13450 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13451 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13452 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13454 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13455 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13456 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13457 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13458 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13459 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13460 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13461 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13462 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13464 o Major features (directory protocol):
13465 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13466 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13467 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13468 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13469 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13470 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13471 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13472 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13473 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13474 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13475 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13476 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13477 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13478 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13479 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13480 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13481 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13483 o Major features (experimental):
13484 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13485 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13486 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13487 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13488 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13489 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13490 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13492 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13493 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13494 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13495 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13496 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13497 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13500 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13501 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13502 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13503 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13504 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13505 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13506 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13507 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13508 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13509 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13510 multiples of 10000.
13512 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13513 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13514 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13515 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13516 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13517 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13518 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13521 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13522 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13523 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13524 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13525 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13526 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13528 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13529 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13530 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13531 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13532 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13533 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13534 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13535 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13536 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13537 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13538 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13539 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13540 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13541 Otherwise it is at info.
13543 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13544 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13545 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13546 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13547 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13548 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13549 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13551 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13552 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13553 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13554 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13556 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13557 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13558 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13559 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13560 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13562 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13563 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13564 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13565 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13566 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13567 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13568 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13571 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13572 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13573 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13574 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13575 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13576 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13577 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13578 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13579 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13580 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13581 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13582 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13583 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13586 o Minor features (security, windows):
13587 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13588 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13589 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13590 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13591 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13593 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13594 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13595 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13597 o Minor features (code style):
13598 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13599 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13600 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13602 o Minor features (config options):
13603 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13604 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13605 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13606 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13607 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13608 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13609 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13610 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13612 o Minor features (controller):
13613 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13614 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13616 o Minor features (defaults):
13617 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13618 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13619 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13620 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13621 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13622 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13623 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13624 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13625 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13626 Closes ticket 21641.
13628 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13629 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13630 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13631 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13634 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13635 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13636 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13637 attempt for bug 23105.
13638 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13639 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13640 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13641 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13642 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13643 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13644 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13646 o Minor features (directory authority):
13647 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13648 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13649 Closes ticket 22348.
13651 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13652 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13653 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13654 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13655 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13658 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13659 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13660 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13661 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13662 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13663 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13664 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13666 o Minor features (geoip):
13667 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13670 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13671 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13672 introduction points than specified in
13673 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13674 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13675 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13676 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13677 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13678 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13679 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13680 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13682 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13683 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13684 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13685 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13686 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13687 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13688 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13689 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13690 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13691 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13693 o Minor features (logging):
13694 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13695 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13696 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13697 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13700 o Minor features (performance):
13701 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13702 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13704 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13705 speed some controller functions.
13707 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13708 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13709 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13710 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13712 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13713 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13714 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13715 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13716 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13717 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13720 o Minor features (safety):
13721 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13722 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13723 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13726 o Minor features (testing):
13727 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13729 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13730 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13731 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13732 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13733 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13734 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13735 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13736 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13737 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13738 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13739 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13740 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13741 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13742 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13743 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13744 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13746 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13747 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13748 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13749 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13751 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13752 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13753 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13754 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13757 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13758 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13759 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13760 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13761 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13762 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13763 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13764 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13767 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13768 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13769 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13771 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13772 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13773 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13774 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13775 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13776 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13778 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13779 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13780 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13782 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13783 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13784 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13785 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13786 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13787 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13788 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13789 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13790 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13791 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13792 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13793 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13794 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13795 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13797 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13798 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13799 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13800 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13801 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13802 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13803 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13804 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13805 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13806 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13807 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13808 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13810 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13811 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13812 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13814 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13815 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13816 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13817 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13818 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13819 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13821 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13822 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13823 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13824 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13825 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13826 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13827 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13828 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13829 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13830 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13831 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13832 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13834 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13835 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13836 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13837 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13838 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13839 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13840 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13841 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13843 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13844 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13845 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13846 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13847 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13848 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13850 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13851 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13852 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13855 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13856 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13857 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13858 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13859 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13861 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13862 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13863 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13864 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13865 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13866 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13867 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13868 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13869 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13870 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13871 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13873 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13874 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13875 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13876 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13878 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13879 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13880 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13881 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13882 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13883 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13884 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13885 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13886 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13887 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13888 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13889 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13890 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13891 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13893 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13894 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13895 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13896 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13897 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13898 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13899 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13901 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13902 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13903 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13904 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13905 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13906 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13907 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13909 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13910 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13911 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13912 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13913 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13914 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13915 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13916 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13917 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13918 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13919 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13920 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13921 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13923 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13924 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13925 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13926 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13928 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13929 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13930 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13932 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13933 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13934 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13935 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13937 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13938 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13939 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13940 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13942 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13943 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13944 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13945 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13946 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13947 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13948 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13949 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13950 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13952 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13953 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13954 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13955 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13956 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13957 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13958 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13961 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13962 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13963 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13964 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13965 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13966 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13968 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13969 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13970 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13971 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
13972 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
13973 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
13974 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
13975 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13976 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
13977 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
13978 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
13979 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
13980 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
13981 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13982 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
13983 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
13986 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
13987 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13988 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13989 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13990 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13992 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
13993 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13994 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13995 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13996 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13997 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13998 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14000 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14001 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14002 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14004 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14005 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14006 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14007 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14008 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14009 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14010 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14011 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14012 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14013 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14014 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14015 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14017 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14018 Resolves ticket 22213.
14019 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14020 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14021 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14022 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14023 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14024 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14025 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14026 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14029 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14031 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14032 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14034 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14035 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14036 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14038 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14040 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14041 Closes ticket 21873.
14042 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14043 Closes ticket 21151.
14044 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14045 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14047 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14048 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14049 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14050 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14052 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14053 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14054 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14055 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14056 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14057 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14058 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14059 default behavior is now unavailable.
14060 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14061 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14062 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14063 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14064 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14065 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14066 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14068 o Removed features (tools):
14069 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14070 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14071 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14072 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14073 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14076 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14077 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14078 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14079 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14081 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14082 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14083 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14084 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14085 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14086 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14087 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14088 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14089 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14091 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14092 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14093 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14094 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14096 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14097 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14098 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14099 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14100 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14102 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14103 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14106 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14107 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14108 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14109 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14111 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14112 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14113 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14114 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14115 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14116 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14117 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14118 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14121 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14122 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14123 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14126 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14127 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14128 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14129 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14130 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14131 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14133 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14134 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14135 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14136 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14138 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14139 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14140 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14142 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14143 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14144 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14147 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14148 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14149 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14150 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14151 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14154 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14157 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14158 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14159 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14160 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14161 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14162 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14164 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14165 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14166 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14167 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14169 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14170 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14171 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14172 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14174 o Minor features (geoip):
14175 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14178 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14179 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14180 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14181 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14182 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14184 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14185 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14186 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14187 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14188 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14190 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14191 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14192 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14193 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14194 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14195 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14196 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14197 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14198 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14201 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14202 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14203 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14204 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14205 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14207 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14208 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14209 bugfixes described below.
14211 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14212 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14213 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14214 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14215 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14216 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14217 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14218 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14221 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14222 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14223 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14224 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14225 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14226 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14227 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14230 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14231 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14232 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14233 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14234 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14235 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14236 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14237 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14238 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14239 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14240 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14241 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14242 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14245 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14246 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14247 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14250 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14251 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14252 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14253 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14254 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14256 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14257 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14258 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14260 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14261 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14262 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14264 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14265 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14266 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14267 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14268 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14269 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14270 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14272 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14274 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14275 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14276 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14279 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14280 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14281 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14282 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14283 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14284 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14286 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14287 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14288 bugfixes described below.
14290 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14291 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14292 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14293 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14294 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14297 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14298 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14299 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14300 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14301 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14302 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14303 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14306 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14307 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14308 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14309 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14310 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14312 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14313 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14314 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14315 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14316 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14317 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14318 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14320 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14321 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14322 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14323 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14324 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14326 o Minor features (geoip):
14327 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14330 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14331 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14332 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14333 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14335 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14336 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14337 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14339 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14340 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14341 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14342 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14343 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14346 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14347 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14348 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14349 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14350 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14352 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14353 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14354 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14355 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14356 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14357 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14359 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14360 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14361 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14362 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14365 o Minor features (geoip):
14366 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14369 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14370 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14371 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14372 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14373 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14375 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14376 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14377 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14379 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14380 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14381 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14382 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14383 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14384 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14386 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14387 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14388 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14389 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14392 o Minor features (geoip):
14393 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14396 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14397 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14398 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14401 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14402 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14403 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14404 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14405 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14406 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14408 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14409 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14410 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14411 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14414 o Minor features (geoip):
14415 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14418 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14419 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14420 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14422 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14423 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14424 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14425 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14426 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14427 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14429 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14430 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14431 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14432 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14435 o Minor features (geoip):
14436 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14439 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14440 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14441 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14443 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14444 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14445 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14446 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14447 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14448 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14450 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14451 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14452 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14453 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14456 o Minor features (geoip):
14457 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14460 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14461 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14462 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14465 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14466 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14467 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14468 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14469 clients are not affected.
14471 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14472 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14473 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14474 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14475 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14476 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14479 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14482 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14483 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14484 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14485 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14486 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14487 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14488 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14490 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14491 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14492 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14493 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14494 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14498 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14499 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14501 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14502 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14503 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14504 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14505 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14506 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14509 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14510 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14512 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14513 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14514 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14515 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14516 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14518 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14519 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14521 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14522 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14523 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14524 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14526 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14527 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14528 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14529 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14530 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14533 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14534 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14535 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14536 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14537 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14538 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14539 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14540 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14543 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14544 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14545 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14546 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14547 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14548 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14549 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14550 15056; part of proposal 220.
14551 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14552 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14553 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14554 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14555 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14556 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14557 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14558 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14559 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14562 o Major features (security):
14563 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14564 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14565 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14566 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14567 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14568 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14570 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14571 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14572 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14573 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14574 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14575 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14576 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14577 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14578 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14579 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14580 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14582 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14583 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14584 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14585 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14587 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14588 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14589 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14590 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14593 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14594 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14595 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14597 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14598 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14599 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14600 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14601 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14602 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14603 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14605 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14606 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14607 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14608 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14609 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14610 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14611 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14612 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14613 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14614 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14615 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14616 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14617 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14618 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14619 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14621 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14622 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14623 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14624 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14625 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14627 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14628 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14629 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14630 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14631 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14632 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14633 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14635 o Minor feature (client):
14636 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14637 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14639 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14640 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14641 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14642 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14644 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14645 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14646 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14648 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14649 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14650 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14651 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14652 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14654 o Minor features (controller):
14655 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14656 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14657 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14658 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14661 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14662 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14663 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14664 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14665 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14666 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14667 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14668 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14669 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14670 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14672 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14673 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14674 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14677 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14678 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14679 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14681 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14682 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14683 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14685 o Minor features (directory authority):
14686 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14687 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14688 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14689 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14690 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14692 o Minor features (directory cache):
14693 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14694 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14697 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14698 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14699 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14700 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14702 o Minor features (entry guards):
14703 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14704 break regression tests.
14705 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14706 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14708 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14709 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14710 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14711 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14712 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14713 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14714 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14715 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14716 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14717 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14718 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14719 Closes ticket 20539.
14720 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14721 Closes ticket 20822.
14722 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14724 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14725 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14726 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14727 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14728 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14730 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14731 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14732 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14733 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14734 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14737 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14738 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14739 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14740 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14742 o Minor features (geoip):
14743 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14746 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14747 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14750 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14751 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14752 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14754 o Minor features (linting):
14755 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14756 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14758 o Minor features (logging):
14759 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14760 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14762 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14763 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14764 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14766 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14767 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14769 o Minor features (relay):
14770 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14771 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14772 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14773 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14775 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14776 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14777 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14780 o Minor features (testing):
14781 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14782 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14783 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14785 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14786 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14787 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14788 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14789 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14790 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14791 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14792 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14793 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14795 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14796 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14797 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14798 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14799 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14802 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14803 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14804 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14805 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14807 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14808 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14809 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14812 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14813 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14814 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14816 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14817 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14818 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14819 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14820 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14821 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14822 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14824 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14825 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14826 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14828 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14829 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14830 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14831 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14832 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14834 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14835 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14836 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14837 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14838 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14839 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14841 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14842 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14843 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14844 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14845 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14846 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14847 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14850 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14851 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14852 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14853 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14854 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14856 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14857 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14858 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14859 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14861 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14862 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14863 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14864 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14865 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14867 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14868 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14869 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14870 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14871 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14873 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14874 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14875 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14876 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14877 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14878 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14879 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14882 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14883 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14884 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14885 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14886 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14887 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14888 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14889 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14890 on all recent tor versions.
14892 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14893 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14894 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14896 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14897 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14898 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14900 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14901 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14902 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14903 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14904 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14905 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14906 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14907 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14908 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14910 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14911 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14912 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14913 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14914 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14915 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14916 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14917 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14918 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14919 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14920 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14923 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14924 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14925 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14926 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14927 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14928 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14929 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14930 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14931 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14932 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14933 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14936 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14937 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14938 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14939 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14940 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14941 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14942 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14943 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14945 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14946 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14947 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14950 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14951 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14952 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14954 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14955 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14956 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14957 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14960 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14961 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14962 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14963 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14965 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14966 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14968 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14969 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14970 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
14972 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
14973 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
14974 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
14975 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
14977 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
14978 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
14979 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
14980 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
14981 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
14982 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
14983 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
14984 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14986 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
14987 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
14988 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
14989 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
14990 Patch by "junglefowl".
14992 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
14993 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
14994 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
14995 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
14996 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
14998 o Minor bugfixes (util):
14999 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15000 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15001 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15002 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15004 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15005 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15006 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15009 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15010 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15011 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15012 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15014 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15015 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15016 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15017 Closes ticket 19858.
15018 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15019 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15020 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15021 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15022 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15023 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15024 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15025 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15026 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15027 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15028 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15029 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15030 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15031 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15032 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15033 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15034 channel abstraction.
15035 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15036 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15037 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15038 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15039 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15040 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15043 o Documentation (formatting):
15044 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15045 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15047 o Documentation (man page):
15048 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15049 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15052 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15053 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15055 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15056 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15057 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15059 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15060 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
15061 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15062 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15063 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15064 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15065 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15066 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15067 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15068 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15070 o Removed features:
15071 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15072 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15073 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15075 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15076 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15077 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15080 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15081 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15082 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15084 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15085 from "overcaffeinated".
15086 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15087 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15090 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15091 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15092 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15093 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15094 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15097 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15098 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15099 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15101 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15102 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15103 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15104 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15105 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15106 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15107 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15109 o Minor features (geoip):
15110 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15114 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15115 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15116 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15117 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15120 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15121 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15122 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15124 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15125 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15127 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15128 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15129 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15131 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15132 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15133 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15136 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15137 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15138 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15139 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15140 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15141 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15142 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15143 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15144 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15146 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15147 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15148 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15149 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15150 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15151 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15152 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15153 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15154 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15155 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15156 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15157 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15158 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15160 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15161 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15162 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15163 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15164 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15166 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15167 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15168 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15170 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15171 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15172 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15173 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15174 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15175 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15176 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15179 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15180 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15181 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15182 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15183 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15184 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15185 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15187 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15188 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15189 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15190 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15193 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15194 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15195 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15196 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15198 o Minor features (geoip):
15199 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15203 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15204 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15205 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15206 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15209 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15210 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15211 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15213 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15214 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15216 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15217 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15218 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15220 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15221 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15222 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15225 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15226 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15227 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15228 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15229 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15230 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15231 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15232 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15233 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15235 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15236 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15237 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15238 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15239 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15240 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15241 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15242 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15243 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15245 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15246 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15247 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15248 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15249 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15251 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15252 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15253 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15254 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15255 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15258 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15259 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15260 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15261 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15262 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15264 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15265 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15266 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15268 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15269 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15270 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15271 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15272 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15273 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15276 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15277 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15278 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15279 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15280 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15281 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15282 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15285 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15286 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15287 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15288 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15289 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15290 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15291 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15293 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15294 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15295 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15296 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15299 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15300 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15301 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15302 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15304 o Minor features (geoip):
15305 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15308 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15309 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15310 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15313 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15314 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15315 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15316 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15319 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15320 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15321 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15323 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15324 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15326 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15327 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15328 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15330 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15331 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15332 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15335 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15336 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15337 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15338 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15339 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15340 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15341 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15342 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15343 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15345 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15346 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15347 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15348 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15349 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15350 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15351 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15352 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15353 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15355 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15356 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15357 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15358 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15359 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15361 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15362 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15363 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15364 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15365 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15368 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15369 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15370 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15371 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15372 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15374 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15375 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15376 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15378 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15379 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15380 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15381 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15382 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15383 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15386 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15387 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15388 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15389 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15390 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15391 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15392 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15395 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15396 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15397 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15398 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15399 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15400 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15401 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15403 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15404 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15405 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15406 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15409 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15410 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15411 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15412 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15414 o Minor features (geoip):
15415 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15418 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15419 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15420 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15422 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15423 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15424 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15425 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15426 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15427 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15429 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15430 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15431 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15435 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15436 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15437 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15438 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15441 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15442 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15443 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15445 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15446 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15448 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15449 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15450 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15452 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15453 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15454 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15457 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15458 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15459 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15460 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15461 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15462 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15463 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15464 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15465 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15467 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15468 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15469 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15470 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15471 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15472 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15473 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15474 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15475 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15477 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15478 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15479 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15480 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15481 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15484 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15485 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15486 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15487 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15488 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15490 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15491 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15492 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15494 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15495 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15496 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15497 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15498 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15499 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15502 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15503 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15504 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15505 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15506 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15507 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15508 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15511 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15512 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15513 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15514 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15515 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15516 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15517 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15519 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15520 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15521 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15522 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15525 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15526 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15527 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15528 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15530 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15531 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15532 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15533 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15535 o Minor features (geoip):
15536 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15539 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15540 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15541 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15543 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15544 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15545 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15549 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15550 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15551 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15552 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15554 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15555 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15556 least January of 2020.
15558 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15559 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15560 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15561 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15564 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15565 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15566 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15567 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15568 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15569 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15570 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15572 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15573 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15574 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15575 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15576 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15577 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15578 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15580 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15581 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15582 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15584 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15585 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15586 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15588 o Minor features (geoip):
15589 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15592 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15593 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15594 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15596 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15597 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15599 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15600 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15601 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15603 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15604 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15605 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15606 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15607 Patch by "junglefowl".
15610 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15611 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15612 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15613 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15614 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15615 version should upgrade.
15617 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15618 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15620 o Major bugfixes (security):
15621 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15622 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15623 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15624 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15625 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15626 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15628 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15629 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15630 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15631 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15632 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15633 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15634 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15635 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15636 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15637 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15638 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15640 o Minor features (geoip):
15641 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15644 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15645 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15646 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15647 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15649 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15650 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15653 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15654 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15655 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15656 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15657 become available for their systems.
15659 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15662 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15663 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15665 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15666 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15667 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15668 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15669 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15670 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15671 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15672 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15673 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15675 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15676 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15677 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15678 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15679 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15681 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15682 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15686 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15687 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15689 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15690 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15691 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15692 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15693 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15694 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15695 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15696 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15698 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15700 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15701 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15702 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15703 become available for their systems.
15705 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15706 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15708 o New system requirements:
15709 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15710 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15711 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15712 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15713 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15714 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15715 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15716 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15717 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15718 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15719 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15721 o Deprecated features:
15722 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15723 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15724 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15725 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15726 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15727 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15728 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15729 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15730 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15731 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15732 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15733 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15734 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15735 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15736 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15737 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15738 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15739 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15740 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15741 and TransListenAddress.
15743 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15744 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15745 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15746 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15747 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15748 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15749 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15750 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15751 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15753 o Major features (build, hardening):
15754 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15755 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15756 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15757 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15758 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15759 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15760 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15761 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15762 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15764 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15765 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15766 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15767 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15769 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15770 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15772 o Major features (compilation):
15773 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15774 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15775 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15776 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15778 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15779 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15780 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15782 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15783 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15784 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15785 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15786 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15787 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15788 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15789 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15791 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15792 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15793 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15794 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15795 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15796 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15797 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15799 o Major features (resource management):
15800 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15801 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15802 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15803 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15804 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15805 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15807 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15808 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15809 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15810 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15811 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15812 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15813 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15814 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15815 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15816 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15817 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15819 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15820 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15821 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15822 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15823 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15824 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15825 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15826 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15827 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15828 part of proposal 264.
15830 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15831 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15832 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15833 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15835 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15836 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15837 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15838 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15839 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15840 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15841 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15842 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15843 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15845 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15846 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15847 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15849 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15850 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15851 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15852 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15853 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15854 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15855 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15857 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15858 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15859 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15860 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15861 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15862 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15863 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15864 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15865 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15866 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15868 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15869 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15870 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15871 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15872 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15873 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15875 o Minor features (port flags):
15876 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15877 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15878 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15879 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15880 18693; patch by "teor".
15882 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15883 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15884 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15885 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15886 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15887 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15888 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15889 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15890 Closes ticket 18895.
15892 o Minor features (client, directory):
15893 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15894 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15895 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15898 o Minor features (code safety):
15899 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15900 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15901 patch from "U+039b".
15903 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15904 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15907 o Minor features (config):
15908 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15909 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15911 o Minor features (controller):
15912 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15913 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15914 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15915 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15916 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15917 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15918 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15919 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15921 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15922 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15923 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15926 o Minor features (directory authority):
15927 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15928 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15929 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15930 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15931 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15932 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15933 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15934 Implements ticket 18624.
15935 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15936 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15937 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15940 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15941 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15942 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15943 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15944 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15946 o Minor features (hidden service):
15947 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15948 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15949 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15952 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15953 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15954 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15955 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15956 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15957 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15958 Closes ticket 18365.
15959 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15960 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15961 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15962 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15964 o Minor features (logging):
15965 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15966 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15967 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15968 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15969 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15970 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15971 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
15972 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
15973 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
15974 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
15976 o Minor features (performance):
15977 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
15978 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
15979 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
15980 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
15981 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
15982 Closes ticket 18815.
15984 o Minor features (relay, usability):
15985 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
15986 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
15987 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
15988 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
15991 o Minor features (security, TLS):
15992 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
15993 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
15994 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
15995 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
15997 o Minor features (testing):
15998 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
15999 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16000 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16001 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16002 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16003 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16004 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16005 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16006 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16007 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16009 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16010 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16011 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16012 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16013 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
16014 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16015 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16017 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16018 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16019 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16020 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16021 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16022 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16023 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16024 assertion as a test failure.
16025 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16027 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16028 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16029 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16030 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16031 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16032 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16033 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16034 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
16035 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16037 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16038 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16039 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16040 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16042 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16043 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16044 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16045 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16046 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
16048 o Minor features (user interface):
16049 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16050 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
16051 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
16052 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
16055 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16056 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16057 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16058 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16061 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16062 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16063 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16064 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16065 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16066 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16068 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16069 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16070 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16071 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16073 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
16074 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16075 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16076 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16077 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16079 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
16080 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16081 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16082 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16083 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16085 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16086 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
16087 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16088 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16089 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16091 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16092 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16093 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16095 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16096 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16097 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16099 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16100 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16101 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16104 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16105 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16106 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16108 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16109 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16110 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16112 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16113 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16114 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16115 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16116 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16117 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16118 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16119 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16121 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16122 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16123 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16124 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16126 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16127 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16128 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16129 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16130 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16131 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16132 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16133 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16134 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16135 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16137 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16138 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16139 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16140 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16142 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16143 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16144 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16145 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16148 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16149 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16150 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16151 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16153 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16154 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16157 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16158 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16159 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16160 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16162 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16163 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16165 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16166 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16167 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16168 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16169 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16171 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16172 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16173 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16175 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16176 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16177 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16179 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16180 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16181 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16182 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16183 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16184 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16186 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16187 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16188 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16190 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16191 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16192 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16193 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16194 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16195 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16196 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
16198 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16199 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16200 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16201 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16202 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16203 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16204 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16205 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16206 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16207 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16208 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16209 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16210 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16211 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16212 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16215 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16216 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16217 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
16218 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16219 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16220 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16222 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16223 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16224 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16226 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16227 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16228 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16231 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16232 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16233 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16234 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16235 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16236 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16238 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16239 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16240 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16241 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16242 patch from "cypherpunks".
16243 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16244 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16245 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16246 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16247 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
16248 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16249 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16250 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
16251 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16252 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16253 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16255 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16256 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16258 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16259 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16260 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16261 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16262 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16265 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16266 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16267 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16268 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16269 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16270 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16271 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16273 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16274 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
16275 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16276 19678. Patch by teor.
16278 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16279 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16280 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16281 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16282 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16284 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16285 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16287 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16288 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16290 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16291 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16292 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16293 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16296 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16297 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16298 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16299 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16300 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16301 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16302 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16303 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16304 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16305 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16306 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16307 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16308 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16309 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16310 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16311 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16312 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16313 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16315 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16316 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16317 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16318 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16321 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16322 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16324 o Removed features:
16325 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16326 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16327 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16328 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16329 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16330 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16331 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16334 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16335 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16336 command-line options to enable them.
16337 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16338 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16341 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16342 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16343 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16344 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16347 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16348 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16349 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16350 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16351 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16352 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16355 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16356 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16357 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16360 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16361 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16362 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16363 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16365 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16366 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16367 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16368 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16371 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16372 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16373 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16374 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16377 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16378 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16379 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16382 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16383 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16384 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16386 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16387 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16388 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16390 o Minor features (geoip):
16391 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16395 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16396 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16397 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16398 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16399 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16402 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16403 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16404 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16405 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16406 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16407 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16408 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16409 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16410 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16412 o Minor features (geoip):
16413 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16417 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16418 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16419 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16420 who select public relays as their bridges.
16422 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16423 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16424 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16425 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16426 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16427 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16429 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16430 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16431 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16432 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16433 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16436 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16437 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16438 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16440 o Minor features (geoip):
16441 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16445 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16446 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16447 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16448 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16449 encouraged to upgrade.
16451 o Directory authority changes:
16452 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16453 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16455 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16456 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16457 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16458 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16459 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16460 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16462 o Minor features (geoip):
16463 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16466 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16467 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16468 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16471 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16472 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16473 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16474 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16477 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16479 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16481 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16482 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16483 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16484 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16485 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16486 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16488 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16490 o New system requirements:
16491 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16492 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16493 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16495 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16496 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16497 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16498 longer runs with, these versions.
16499 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16500 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16501 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16502 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16503 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16505 o Directory authority changes:
16506 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16507 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16509 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16511 o Major features (directory system):
16512 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16513 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16514 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16515 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16516 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16517 gsathya, and karsten.
16518 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16519 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16520 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16521 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16522 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16524 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16525 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16526 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16527 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16528 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16529 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16530 mikeperry and teor.
16532 o Major features (security, Linux):
16533 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16534 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16535 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16536 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16537 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16539 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16540 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16541 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16542 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16543 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16544 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16545 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16547 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16548 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16551 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16552 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16553 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16555 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16556 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16557 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16558 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16559 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16561 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16562 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16563 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16564 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16565 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16566 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16567 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16568 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16569 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16570 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16572 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16573 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16574 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16575 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16576 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16577 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16578 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16581 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16582 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16583 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16584 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16585 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16587 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16588 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16589 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16590 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16591 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16592 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16593 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16594 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16595 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16597 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16598 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16599 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16600 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16601 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16603 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16604 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16605 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16607 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16608 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16609 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16610 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16612 o Minor features (accounting):
16613 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16614 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16615 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16616 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16618 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16619 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16620 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16621 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16622 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16623 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16624 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16627 o Minor features (build):
16628 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16629 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16630 Steven Chamberlain.
16631 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16632 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16633 patch from "cypherpunks".
16634 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16635 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16636 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16637 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16638 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16639 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16640 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16641 Patch from intrigeri.
16643 o Minor features (clients):
16644 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16645 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16646 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16648 o Minor features (controller):
16649 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16650 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16651 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16653 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16654 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16655 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16656 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16657 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16659 o Minor features (crypto):
16660 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16661 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16663 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16664 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16665 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16666 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16667 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16669 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16670 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16671 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16672 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16674 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16675 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16676 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16677 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16678 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16679 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16680 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16681 17864; patch by teor.
16683 o Minor features (geoip):
16684 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16687 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16688 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16689 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16690 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16691 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16693 o Minor features (IPv6):
16694 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16695 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16696 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16697 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16698 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16699 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16700 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16701 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16702 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16703 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16704 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16705 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16707 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16708 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16709 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16710 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16711 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16712 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16713 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16714 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16715 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16716 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16718 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16719 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16720 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16721 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16722 while fixing 18548.
16724 o Minor features (logging):
16725 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16726 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16727 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16728 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16731 o Minor features (portability):
16732 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16733 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16735 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16736 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16737 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16738 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16739 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16741 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16742 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16743 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16744 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16745 Resolves ticket 17951.
16747 o Minor features (replay cache):
16748 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16749 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16751 o Minor features (robustness):
16752 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16753 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16754 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16756 o Minor features (security, clock):
16757 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16758 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16759 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16760 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16762 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16763 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16764 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16765 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16766 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16767 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16769 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16770 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16771 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16772 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16774 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16775 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16776 Implements ticket 17026.
16777 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16778 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16779 Implements feature 17986.
16780 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16781 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16782 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16784 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16785 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16786 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16787 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16788 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16789 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16790 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16791 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16792 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16793 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16794 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16797 o Minor features (security, win32):
16798 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16799 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16802 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16803 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16804 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16805 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16806 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16807 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16808 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16811 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16812 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16813 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16814 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16815 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16816 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16817 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16818 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16819 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16820 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16821 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16822 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16823 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16824 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16826 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16827 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16828 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16829 from "unixninja92".
16831 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16832 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16833 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16836 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16837 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16838 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16840 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16841 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16842 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16843 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16844 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16845 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16847 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16848 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16850 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16851 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16852 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16853 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16854 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16856 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16857 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16858 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16859 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16860 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16861 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16863 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16864 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16865 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16866 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16867 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16868 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16869 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16870 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16871 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16872 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16873 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16875 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16876 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16879 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16880 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16881 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16882 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16883 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16885 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16886 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16887 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16888 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16889 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16890 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16891 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16892 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16894 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16896 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16897 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16898 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16900 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16901 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16902 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16904 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16905 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16906 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16908 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16909 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16910 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16911 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16913 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16914 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16915 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16916 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16917 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16919 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16920 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16921 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16923 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16924 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16925 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16926 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16927 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16928 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16929 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16930 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16931 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16933 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16934 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16935 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16936 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16939 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16940 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16941 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16942 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16943 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16945 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16946 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16947 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16948 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
16949 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16950 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16951 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16952 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16954 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16955 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16956 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16957 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16958 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16959 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16960 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16961 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16962 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16965 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16966 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16967 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16968 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16970 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16971 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
16972 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
16974 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
16975 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
16976 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
16978 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16979 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
16980 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
16981 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
16982 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16983 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
16984 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
16985 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16986 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
16987 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
16988 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16989 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
16990 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
16991 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16992 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
16993 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16994 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
16995 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
16996 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
16998 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16999 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17000 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17001 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17002 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17004 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17005 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17006 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17007 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17008 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17009 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17010 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17011 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17012 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17013 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17014 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17015 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17018 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17019 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17020 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17021 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17023 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17024 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17025 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17028 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17029 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17030 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17031 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17033 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17034 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17035 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17036 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17037 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17038 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17041 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17042 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17043 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17044 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17046 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17047 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17048 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17049 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17050 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17051 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
17052 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17053 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17054 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17056 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17057 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17058 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17059 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17060 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
17062 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17063 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17064 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17065 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17067 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17068 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17069 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17070 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17071 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17072 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17073 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17074 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17076 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17077 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17079 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17080 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17081 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17084 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17085 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17086 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
17087 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17089 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17090 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17091 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17092 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17093 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17094 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17095 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17096 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17097 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17098 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17099 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17100 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17101 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17102 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17103 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17104 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17106 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17107 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17108 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17109 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17110 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17111 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17112 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17114 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17115 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17116 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17117 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17119 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17120 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17121 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17123 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17124 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17125 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17126 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17128 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17129 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17130 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17131 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17132 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17133 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17134 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17135 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17136 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17137 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17138 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17139 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17140 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17141 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17142 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17143 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17144 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17145 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17146 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17147 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17148 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17149 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17153 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17154 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17155 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17156 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17157 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17158 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17159 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17160 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17161 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17162 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17163 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17164 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17166 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17167 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17169 o Removed features:
17170 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17171 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17172 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17173 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17174 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17175 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17176 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17177 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17180 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17181 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17182 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
17183 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17184 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17185 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17186 portion of ticket 16831.
17187 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17189 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17190 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17191 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17192 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17193 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17195 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17196 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17197 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17198 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17201 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17202 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17203 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17205 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17206 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17207 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17208 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17209 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17210 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17213 o Minor features (geoip):
17214 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17217 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17218 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17219 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17220 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17221 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17222 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17224 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17225 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17226 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17227 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17228 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17229 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17230 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17231 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17232 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17233 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17236 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17237 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17238 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17239 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17240 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17241 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17242 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17243 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17244 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17245 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17246 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17247 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17248 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17249 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17250 that would make him proud.
17252 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17254 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17255 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17256 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17257 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17258 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17259 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17260 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
17262 o New system requirements:
17263 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17264 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17266 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
17267 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
17268 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
17269 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
17270 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
17271 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
17272 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
17273 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
17274 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
17275 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
17276 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17277 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17278 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17280 o Major features (controller):
17281 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17282 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17284 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17285 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17286 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17287 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17288 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17289 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17290 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17292 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17293 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17294 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17295 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17296 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17297 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17298 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17299 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17300 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17301 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17302 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17303 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17304 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17305 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17306 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17307 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17308 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17309 part of ticket 12498.
17310 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17311 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17313 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17314 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17315 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17316 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17317 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17318 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17319 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17320 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17321 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17324 o Major features (ECC performance):
17325 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17326 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17328 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17329 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17330 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17331 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17332 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17333 Implements ticket 16467.
17334 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17335 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17336 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17337 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17339 o Major features (Hidden services):
17340 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17341 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17342 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17343 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17344 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17345 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17346 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17347 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17348 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17349 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17350 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17351 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17353 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17354 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17355 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17356 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17358 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17359 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17360 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17361 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17362 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17363 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17365 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17366 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17367 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17368 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17369 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17370 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17372 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17373 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17374 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17375 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17376 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17377 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17378 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17379 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17382 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17383 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17384 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17385 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17387 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17388 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17389 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17390 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17391 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17392 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17395 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17396 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17397 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17399 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17400 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17401 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17402 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17403 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17404 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17406 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17407 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17408 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17409 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17410 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17413 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17414 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17415 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17416 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17417 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17418 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17419 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17420 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17423 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17424 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17425 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17426 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17428 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17429 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17430 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17431 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17432 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17433 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17434 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17437 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17438 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17439 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17440 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17441 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17442 own. Implements feature 15482.
17443 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17444 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17446 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17447 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17448 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17449 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17450 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17452 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17453 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17454 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17455 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17456 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17458 o Minor features (compilation):
17459 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17460 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17461 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17462 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17463 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17465 o Minor features (control protocol):
17466 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17467 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17469 o Minor features (controller):
17470 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17471 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17472 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17473 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17474 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17475 Closes ticket 14845.
17476 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17477 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17478 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17480 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17481 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17482 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17483 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17484 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17485 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17487 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17488 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17489 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17490 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17491 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17492 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17493 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17495 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17496 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17497 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17498 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17500 o Minor features (geoip):
17501 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17504 o Minor features (hidden services):
17505 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17506 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17507 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17508 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17510 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17511 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17512 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17514 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17515 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17516 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17517 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17518 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17519 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17520 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17521 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17523 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17524 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17525 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17526 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17527 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17528 Closes ticket 15745.
17530 o Minor features (logging):
17531 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17532 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17535 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17536 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17537 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17538 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17540 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17541 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17542 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17543 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17544 Resolves ticket 15435.
17546 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17547 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17548 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17549 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17550 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17551 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17552 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17553 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17554 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17555 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17556 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17557 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17558 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17559 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17560 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17561 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17562 Related to ticket 16069.
17564 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17565 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17566 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17568 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17569 stderr, not stdout.
17570 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17571 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17572 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17575 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17576 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17577 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17578 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17579 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17581 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17582 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17583 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17584 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17586 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17587 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17588 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17589 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17590 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17591 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17592 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17593 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17595 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17596 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17597 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17598 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17600 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17601 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17602 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17604 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17605 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17606 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17608 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17609 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17610 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17611 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17613 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17614 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17615 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17616 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17617 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17618 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17620 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17621 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17622 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17624 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17625 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17627 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17628 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17629 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17630 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17631 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17632 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17633 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17634 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17636 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17637 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17638 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17639 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17641 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17642 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17643 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17645 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17646 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17647 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17650 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17651 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17652 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17653 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17654 recent enough Clang.
17656 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17657 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17658 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17659 unsuitable for public communications.
17661 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17662 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17663 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17664 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17666 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17667 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17668 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17669 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17670 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17672 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17673 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17675 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17676 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17677 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17678 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17679 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17681 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17682 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17683 from "cypherpunks".
17684 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17685 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17688 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17689 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17690 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17691 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17692 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17694 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17695 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17696 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17697 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17698 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17699 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17701 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17702 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17703 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17704 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17706 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17707 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17708 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17709 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17710 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17711 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17712 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17713 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17715 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17716 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17717 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17719 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17720 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17721 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17722 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17723 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17724 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17725 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17726 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17727 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17728 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17729 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17730 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17731 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17733 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17734 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17735 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17736 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17737 haven't supported that in ages.
17738 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17739 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17740 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17741 suite of other microdesc functions.
17742 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17743 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17744 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17745 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17746 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17747 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17748 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17749 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17750 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17751 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17752 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17753 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17754 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17755 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17756 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17757 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17759 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17760 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17764 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17765 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17766 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17768 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17769 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17770 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17771 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17772 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17773 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17774 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17775 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17776 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17777 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17779 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17781 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17782 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17783 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17784 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17785 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17786 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17787 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17788 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17789 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17790 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17791 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17792 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17793 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17795 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17796 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17799 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17800 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17801 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17802 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17803 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17804 Closes ticket 14922.
17805 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17806 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17807 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17808 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17809 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17810 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17811 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17812 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17813 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17814 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17815 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17816 Closes ticket 13338.
17818 o Removed features:
17819 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17820 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17821 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17822 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17823 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17824 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17825 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17826 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17827 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17828 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17829 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17830 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17831 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17832 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17833 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17836 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17837 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17838 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17839 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17840 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17841 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17842 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17843 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17844 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17845 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17846 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17848 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17849 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17850 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17851 Closes ticket 15817.
17852 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17853 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17854 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17855 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17856 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17857 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17858 network before we begin.
17859 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17860 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17861 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17862 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17863 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17864 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17866 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17867 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17869 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17870 default as a part of "make check".
17871 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17872 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17873 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17874 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17875 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17876 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17877 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17878 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17879 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17880 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17881 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17882 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17883 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17884 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17885 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17886 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17887 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17888 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17889 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17890 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17891 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17892 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17893 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17894 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17895 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17896 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17897 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17898 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17899 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17900 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17901 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17903 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17904 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17905 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17906 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17907 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17909 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17910 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17911 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17912 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17913 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17914 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17916 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17917 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17918 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17919 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17920 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17921 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17922 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17923 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17926 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17927 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17928 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17929 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17930 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17931 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17932 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17933 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17936 o Minor features (geoip):
17937 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17938 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17940 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17941 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17942 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17943 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17944 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17945 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17947 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17948 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17949 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17950 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17953 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17954 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17955 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17956 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17957 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17959 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17960 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17961 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17962 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17963 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17966 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17967 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17968 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17969 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17970 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17971 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
17972 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17974 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17975 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17976 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17977 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17979 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17980 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
17981 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
17982 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
17983 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17984 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17987 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
17988 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17989 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17992 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
17993 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
17994 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
17995 authorities should upgrade.
17997 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
17998 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17999 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18000 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18003 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18004 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18005 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18008 o Minor features (geoip):
18009 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18010 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18014 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18015 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18016 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18017 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18018 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18020 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18021 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18023 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18024 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18025 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18026 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18027 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18028 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18029 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18031 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18032 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18033 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18034 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18035 Resolves ticket 15515.
18036 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18037 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18038 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18042 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18043 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18044 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18045 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18046 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18048 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18049 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18051 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18052 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18053 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18054 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18055 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18056 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18057 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18059 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18060 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18061 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18062 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18063 Resolves ticket 15515.
18066 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18067 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18068 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18069 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18070 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18072 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18073 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18075 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18076 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18077 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18078 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18079 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18080 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18081 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18083 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18084 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18085 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18086 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18087 Resolves ticket 15515.
18090 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18091 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18093 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18094 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18095 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18096 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18097 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18098 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18099 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18100 bugs should be addressed.
18102 o New compiler and system requirements:
18103 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18104 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18105 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18106 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18108 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18109 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18110 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18111 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18112 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18113 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18114 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18115 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18116 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18118 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
18119 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18120 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18121 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18122 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18123 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18124 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18126 o Directory authority changes:
18127 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18128 closes ticket 14487.
18129 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18130 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18131 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18133 o Major features (bridges):
18134 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18135 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18136 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18139 o Major features (changed defaults):
18140 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18141 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18142 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18143 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18144 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18145 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18147 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18148 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18149 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18150 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18153 o Major features (directory system):
18154 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18155 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18156 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18157 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18158 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18159 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18160 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18161 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18162 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18163 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18164 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18165 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18166 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18167 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18168 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18169 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18171 o Major features (guards):
18172 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18173 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18174 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18175 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18176 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18178 o Major features (hidden services):
18179 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18180 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18181 Closes ticket 13667.
18182 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18183 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18184 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18185 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18186 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18187 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18188 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18189 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18190 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18191 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18192 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18194 o Major features (performance):
18195 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18196 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18197 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18198 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18199 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18200 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18201 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18202 Implements ticket 9682.
18204 o Major features (relay):
18205 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18206 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18207 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18208 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18209 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18210 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18211 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18212 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18214 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18215 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18216 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18217 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18218 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18219 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18220 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18223 o Major features (sample torrc):
18224 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18225 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18226 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18227 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18228 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18229 generally useful "sample torrc".
18231 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18232 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18233 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18234 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18235 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18236 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18238 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18239 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18240 Implements ticket 11485.
18242 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18243 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18244 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18245 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18246 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18247 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18250 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18251 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18252 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18255 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18256 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18257 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18259 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18260 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18261 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18262 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18263 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18265 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18266 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18267 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18268 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18270 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18271 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18272 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18275 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18276 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18277 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18278 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18279 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18280 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18282 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18283 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18284 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18285 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18287 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18288 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18289 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18290 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18291 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18292 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18293 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18295 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18296 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18297 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18298 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18299 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18300 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18302 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18303 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18304 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18305 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18306 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18307 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18308 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18309 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18311 o Minor features (build):
18312 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18313 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18314 Resolves ticket 13037.
18316 o Minor features (client):
18317 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18318 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18319 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18320 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18322 o Minor features (client):
18323 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18324 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18325 Resolves ticket 13315.
18327 o Minor features (controller):
18328 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18329 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18331 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18332 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18334 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18335 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18336 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18337 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18338 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18339 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18340 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18341 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18342 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18344 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18345 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18346 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18347 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18348 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18349 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18350 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18351 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18352 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18353 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18355 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18356 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18357 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18358 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18359 argument more than once.
18360 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18361 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18362 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18363 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18364 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18365 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18367 o Minor features (geoip):
18368 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18369 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18372 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18373 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18374 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18375 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18377 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18378 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18379 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18380 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18381 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18383 o Minor features (hidden service):
18384 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18385 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18386 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18387 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18388 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18389 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18390 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18391 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18392 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18393 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18394 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18395 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18396 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18397 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18399 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18400 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18401 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18403 o Minor features (interface):
18404 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18405 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18406 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18408 o Minor features (logging):
18409 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18410 Resolves ticket 6852.
18411 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18412 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18413 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18415 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18416 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18417 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18418 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18419 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18420 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18421 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18422 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18423 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18424 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18425 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18426 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18429 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18430 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18431 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18432 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18434 o Minor features (relay):
18435 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18436 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18437 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18439 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18440 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18441 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18442 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18443 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18444 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18445 document. Implements feature 10427.
18447 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18448 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18449 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18450 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18452 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18453 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18454 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18455 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18456 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18457 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18459 o Minor features (stability):
18460 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18461 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18464 o Minor features (systemd):
18465 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18466 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18467 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18468 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18469 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18470 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18472 o Minor features (testing networks):
18473 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18474 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18475 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18476 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18477 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18479 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18480 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18481 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18482 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18483 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18484 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18486 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18487 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18488 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18489 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18490 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18492 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18493 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18494 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18495 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18496 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18498 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18499 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18500 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18501 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18502 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18505 o Minor features (validation):
18506 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18507 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18508 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18509 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18510 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18511 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18512 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18513 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18514 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18515 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18516 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18519 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18520 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18521 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18522 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18524 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18525 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18526 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18527 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18529 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18530 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18531 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18533 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18534 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18535 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18537 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18538 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18539 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18540 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18541 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18542 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18543 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18545 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18546 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18547 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18548 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18549 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18550 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18551 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18552 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18553 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18555 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18556 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18557 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18558 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18559 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18560 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18561 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18562 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18563 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18565 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18566 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18567 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18568 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18569 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18570 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18571 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18572 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18574 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18575 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18576 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18579 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18580 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18581 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18582 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18583 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18585 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18586 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18587 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18588 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18589 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18590 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18591 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18592 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18594 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18595 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18596 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18597 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18598 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18600 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18601 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18602 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18603 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18604 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18606 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18607 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18608 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18610 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18611 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18612 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18613 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18614 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18616 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18617 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18618 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18620 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18621 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18623 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18624 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18625 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18626 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18628 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18629 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18631 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18632 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18633 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18634 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18635 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18636 Addresses ticket 14188.
18637 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18638 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18639 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18640 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18641 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18642 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18643 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18644 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18645 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18646 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18647 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18650 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18651 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18652 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18653 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18654 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18655 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18657 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18658 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18659 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18660 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18661 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18663 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18664 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18665 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18666 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18667 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18668 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18669 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18670 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18671 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18672 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18673 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18674 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18675 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18676 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18677 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18678 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18680 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18681 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18682 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18683 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18684 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18685 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18686 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18687 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18690 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18691 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18692 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18693 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18694 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18695 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18696 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18697 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18698 state, and key files.
18699 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18700 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18703 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18704 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18705 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18706 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18707 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18708 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18709 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18710 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18711 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18712 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18713 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18714 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18715 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18716 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18717 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18718 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18719 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18720 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18723 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18724 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18725 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18726 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18727 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18728 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18729 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18730 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18731 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18732 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18734 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18735 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18736 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18737 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18738 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18739 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18741 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18742 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18744 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18745 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18746 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18747 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18748 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18750 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18751 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18752 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18753 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18754 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18755 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18757 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18758 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18759 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18761 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18762 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18763 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18765 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18766 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18767 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18768 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18769 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18771 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18772 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18773 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18776 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18777 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18778 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18779 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18780 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18783 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18784 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18785 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18786 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18789 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18790 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18791 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18794 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18795 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18796 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18798 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18799 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18800 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18801 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18802 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18805 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18806 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18807 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18808 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18809 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18810 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18812 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18813 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18814 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18815 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18816 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18817 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18819 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18820 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18821 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18822 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18823 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18824 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18825 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18826 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18827 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18828 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18829 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18830 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18831 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18832 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18833 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18834 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18835 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18836 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18837 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18838 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18839 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18840 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18841 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18842 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18843 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18844 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18845 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18846 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18847 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18848 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18849 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18850 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18852 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18853 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18854 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18855 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18856 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18858 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18859 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18860 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18861 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18862 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18863 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18864 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18865 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18866 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18868 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18869 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18870 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18872 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18873 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18874 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18877 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18878 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18879 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18880 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18883 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18884 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18885 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18887 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18888 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18889 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18891 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18892 Resolves ticket 12205.
18893 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18894 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18895 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18896 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18898 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18899 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18900 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18902 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18903 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18905 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18906 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18907 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18908 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18909 or_options_t structure.
18910 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18911 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18912 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18913 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18914 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18915 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18916 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18917 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18919 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18920 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18922 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18924 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18925 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18926 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18927 with a function instead.
18928 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18929 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18930 Closes ticket 13172.
18931 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18932 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18933 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18934 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18935 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18936 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18937 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18938 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18939 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18940 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18941 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18942 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18946 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18947 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18948 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18949 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18951 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18952 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18953 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18954 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18955 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18956 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18957 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18958 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18959 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18960 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18961 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18962 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18963 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18964 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18965 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18966 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18967 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18968 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18970 o Distribution (systemd):
18971 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
18972 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
18973 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
18974 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
18975 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
18977 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
18978 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
18980 o Downgraded warnings:
18981 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
18982 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
18985 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
18986 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
18987 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
18990 o Removed features (directory authorities):
18991 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
18992 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
18993 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
18994 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
18995 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
18996 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
18997 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
18998 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
18999 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
19001 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
19002 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
19003 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19004 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19007 o Removed features:
19008 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19009 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19010 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19011 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19012 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19014 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19015 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19016 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19017 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19018 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19019 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19020 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19021 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19022 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19024 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19025 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19027 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19028 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19029 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19030 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19031 anymore, and ignore it.
19033 o Removed platform support:
19034 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19035 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19036 Closes ticket 11446.
19038 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19039 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19040 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19042 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19044 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19045 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19046 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19049 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19050 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19051 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19052 (existing behavior).
19053 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19054 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19055 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19056 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19057 Closes ticket 14107.
19058 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19059 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19060 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19061 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19063 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19064 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19065 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19066 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19067 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19068 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19070 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19072 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19073 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19074 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19075 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19076 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19077 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19078 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19079 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19080 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19081 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19082 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19083 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19085 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19086 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19087 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19089 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19090 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19092 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19093 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19094 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19096 o Directory authority changes:
19097 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19098 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19099 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19100 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19101 closes ticket 14487.
19103 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19104 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19105 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19108 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19109 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19110 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19111 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19112 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19113 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19114 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19115 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19117 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19118 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19119 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19120 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19122 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19123 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19124 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19125 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19127 o Minor features (controller):
19128 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19129 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19130 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19132 o Minor features (geoip):
19133 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19134 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19137 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19138 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19139 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19140 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19141 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19142 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19144 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19145 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19146 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19147 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19149 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19150 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19151 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19152 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19153 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19154 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19155 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19156 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19158 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19159 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19160 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19162 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19163 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19164 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19165 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19166 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19170 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19171 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19172 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19175 o Directory authority changes:
19176 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19177 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19178 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19179 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19180 closes ticket 14487.
19182 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19183 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19184 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19185 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19187 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19188 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19189 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19190 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19191 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19192 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19193 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19194 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19196 o Minor features (geoip):
19197 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19198 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19201 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19202 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19204 It adds several new security features, including improved
19205 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19206 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19207 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19208 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19209 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19210 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19211 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19212 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19213 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19214 and features mentioned below.
19216 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19217 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19219 o Major features (security):
19220 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19221 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19222 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19223 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19224 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19225 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19226 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19227 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19228 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19229 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19231 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19232 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19233 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19234 streams attached to each circuit.
19236 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19237 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19238 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19239 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19240 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19241 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19242 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19243 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19244 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19245 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19246 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19247 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19248 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19250 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19251 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19252 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19253 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19255 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
19256 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19257 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19258 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19259 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19260 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19262 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19263 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19264 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19265 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19266 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19267 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19268 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19269 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19272 o Major features (controller):
19273 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19274 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19275 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19276 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19277 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19278 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19280 o Major features (relay performance):
19281 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19282 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19283 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19284 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19285 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19286 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19287 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19288 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19289 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19290 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19292 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19293 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19294 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19295 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19296 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19297 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19298 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19299 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19300 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19301 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19303 o Major features (testing networks):
19304 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19305 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19306 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19307 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19308 Implements ticket 8530.
19310 o Major features (other):
19311 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19312 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19313 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19314 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19315 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19316 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19318 o Deprecated versions:
19319 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19320 attention for some while.
19322 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19323 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19324 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19326 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19327 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19328 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19329 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19330 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19331 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19332 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19333 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19334 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19335 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19336 router's identity is not forgeable.
19338 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19339 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19340 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19341 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19343 o Major bugfixes (client):
19344 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19345 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19346 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19347 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19348 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19349 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19350 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19351 to build circuits".
19353 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19354 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19355 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19356 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19359 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19360 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19361 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19362 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19363 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19364 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19365 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19367 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19368 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19369 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19370 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19371 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19372 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19373 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19374 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19375 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19376 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19377 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19378 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19379 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19380 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19381 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19382 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19383 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19385 o Minor features (security):
19386 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19387 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19388 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19389 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19391 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19392 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19393 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19394 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19395 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19396 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19397 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19399 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19400 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19401 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19402 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19403 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19404 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19405 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19407 o Minor features (bridge client):
19408 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19409 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19410 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19412 o Minor features (bridge):
19413 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19414 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19416 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19417 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19418 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19419 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19420 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19421 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19422 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19423 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19424 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19425 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19426 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19427 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19428 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19429 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19430 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19432 o Minor features (build):
19433 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19434 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19435 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19436 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19437 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19438 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19439 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19440 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19441 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19442 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19443 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19444 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19445 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19446 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19447 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19450 o Minor features (client):
19451 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19452 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19453 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19454 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19456 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19457 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19458 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19459 Implements ticket 10060.
19460 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19461 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19462 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19464 o Minor features (config options):
19465 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19466 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19467 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19468 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19469 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19470 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19471 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19472 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19473 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19474 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19475 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19476 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19477 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19478 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19479 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19480 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19481 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19484 o Minor features (controller):
19485 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19486 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19488 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19489 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19490 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19491 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19492 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19493 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19494 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19495 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19497 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19498 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19499 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19501 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19502 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19503 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19504 help diagnose bug 7164.
19505 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19506 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19507 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19508 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19509 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19511 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19512 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19513 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19514 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19515 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19516 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19517 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19518 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19519 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19520 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19521 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19522 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19523 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19524 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19525 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19527 o Minor features (geoip):
19528 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19531 o Minor features (interface):
19532 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19533 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19534 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19535 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19537 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19538 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19539 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19541 o Minor features (log messages):
19542 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19543 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19544 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19545 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19546 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19547 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19548 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19549 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19551 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19552 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19553 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19554 Resolves ticket 5286.
19555 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19556 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19557 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19558 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19559 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19560 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19562 o Minor features (performance):
19563 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19564 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19565 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19566 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19567 Closes ticket 8109.
19569 o Minor features (relay):
19570 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19571 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19572 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19574 o Minor features (testing):
19575 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19576 the unit test scripts.
19577 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19578 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19579 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19580 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19582 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19583 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19584 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19585 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19586 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19587 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19588 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19589 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19590 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19591 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19593 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19594 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19595 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19596 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19598 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19599 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19600 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19601 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19602 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19603 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19604 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19605 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19606 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19607 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19609 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19610 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19611 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19613 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19614 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19615 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19616 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19617 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19619 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19620 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19621 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19622 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19623 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19624 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19625 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19626 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19627 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19628 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19629 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19630 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19632 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19633 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19634 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19635 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19636 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19637 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19638 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19639 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19640 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19641 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19642 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19643 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19645 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19646 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19647 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19648 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19650 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19651 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19652 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19653 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19656 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19657 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19658 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19659 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19660 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19661 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19664 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19665 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19666 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19667 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19668 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19670 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19671 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19672 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19675 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19676 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19677 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19678 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19679 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19680 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19681 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19682 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19683 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19684 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19686 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19687 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19688 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19689 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19690 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19692 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19693 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19695 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19696 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19697 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19698 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19699 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19700 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19701 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19702 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19703 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19704 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19705 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19706 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19707 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19709 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19710 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19711 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19712 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19713 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19714 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19715 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19716 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19717 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19718 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19719 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19720 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19721 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19723 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19724 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19725 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19727 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19728 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19729 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19730 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19731 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19732 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19734 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19735 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19736 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19737 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19738 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19739 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19740 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19741 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19742 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19743 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19745 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19746 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19747 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19749 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19750 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19751 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19752 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19753 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19755 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19756 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19757 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19758 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19759 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19760 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19761 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19762 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19763 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19764 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19765 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19766 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19767 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19768 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19770 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19771 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19772 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19773 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19774 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19775 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19776 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19777 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19778 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19780 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19781 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19782 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19783 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19784 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19785 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19786 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19788 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19789 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19791 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19792 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19793 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19794 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19796 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19797 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19798 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19799 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19800 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19801 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19802 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19803 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19804 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19805 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19806 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19807 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19808 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19809 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19810 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19811 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19812 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19814 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19815 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19816 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19817 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19818 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19819 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19820 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19821 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19824 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19825 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19826 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19827 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19828 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19829 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19830 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19831 Reported by "mr-4".
19832 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19833 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19834 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19835 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19837 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19838 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19839 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19840 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19841 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19842 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19843 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19844 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19845 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19846 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19847 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19848 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19850 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19851 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19852 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19854 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19855 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19856 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19858 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19859 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19860 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19861 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19864 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19865 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19866 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19867 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19870 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19871 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19872 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19873 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19875 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19876 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19877 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19879 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19880 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19881 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19882 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19883 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19884 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19885 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19886 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19889 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19890 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19891 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19892 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19893 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19894 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19895 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19896 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19897 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19898 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19899 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19901 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19902 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19903 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19904 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19905 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19907 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19908 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19909 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19910 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19913 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19914 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19915 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19916 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19917 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19918 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19919 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19921 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19922 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19923 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19924 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19925 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19926 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19927 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19928 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19929 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19930 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19931 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19932 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19933 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19934 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19935 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19936 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19937 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19938 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19939 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19940 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19941 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19942 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19943 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19944 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19946 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19947 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19948 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19949 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19950 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19951 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19952 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19953 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19954 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19956 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19957 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19960 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
19961 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
19963 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
19965 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19966 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19967 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19968 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19969 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19970 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
19972 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
19973 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
19975 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
19976 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
19977 caches don't get confused.
19978 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
19979 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19980 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
19981 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
19982 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
19983 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
19984 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
19985 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
19986 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
19987 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
19988 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
19989 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
19990 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
19991 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
19992 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
19993 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
19994 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
19995 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
19998 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
19999 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20000 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20001 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20002 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20004 o Removed code and features:
20005 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20006 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20007 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20008 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20009 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20010 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20012 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20013 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20014 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20015 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20016 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20017 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20018 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20019 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
20020 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20021 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20022 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20023 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20025 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20026 Resolves ticket 11070.
20027 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20028 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20029 the rest of bug 10841.
20030 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20031 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20032 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20033 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20035 o Test infrastructure:
20036 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20037 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20038 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20039 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20040 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20041 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20042 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20043 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20044 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20045 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20047 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20048 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20049 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20050 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20051 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20052 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20053 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20054 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20055 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20056 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20057 invoking the other functions it calls.
20060 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20061 Patch from Dana Koch.
20062 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20063 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20064 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20065 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20067 o Distribution (systemd):
20068 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20069 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20070 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20071 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20072 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20073 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20074 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20075 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20076 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20077 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20078 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20079 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20080 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20084 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20085 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20086 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20087 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20088 (which does affect Tor).
20090 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20091 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20092 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20093 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20095 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20096 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20097 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20098 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20101 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20102 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20103 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20104 the directory authorities.
20107 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20108 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20109 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20110 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20111 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20112 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20113 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20114 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20115 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20116 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20117 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20118 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20120 o Directory authority changes:
20121 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20123 o Minor features (geoip):
20124 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20128 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20129 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20130 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20131 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20134 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20135 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20136 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20137 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20138 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20139 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20140 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20141 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20142 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20143 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20146 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20147 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20148 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20149 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20150 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20151 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20152 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20153 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20157 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20158 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20159 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20160 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20161 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20162 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20163 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20164 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20165 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20166 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20167 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20168 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20169 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20172 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20176 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20177 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20178 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20179 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20180 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20181 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20182 of RAM, and several others.
20184 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20185 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20186 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20187 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20188 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20190 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20191 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20192 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20193 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20196 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20197 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20198 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20199 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20200 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20201 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20202 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20203 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20204 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20205 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20206 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20207 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20208 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20209 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20210 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20211 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20212 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20213 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20214 Resolves ticket 11438.
20216 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20217 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20218 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20219 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20220 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20221 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20223 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20224 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20225 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20227 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20228 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20229 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20231 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20232 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20233 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20234 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20236 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20237 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20238 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20240 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20241 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20242 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20245 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20246 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20247 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20248 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20251 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20252 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20253 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20254 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20256 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20257 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20258 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20259 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20261 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20262 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20263 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20267 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20268 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20269 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20270 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20272 o Major features (client security):
20273 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20274 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20275 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20276 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20277 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20278 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20281 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20282 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20283 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20284 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20286 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20287 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20288 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20289 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20290 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20293 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20294 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20296 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20297 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20298 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20299 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20300 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20301 GeoLite2 Country database.
20304 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20305 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20306 bugfix on every released Tor.
20307 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20308 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20309 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20310 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20311 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20312 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20313 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20314 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20315 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20316 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20317 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20318 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20319 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20320 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20321 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20323 o Documentation fixes:
20324 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20325 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20328 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20329 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20330 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20331 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20332 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20333 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20334 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20336 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20337 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20340 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20341 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20342 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20343 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20344 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20345 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20346 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20347 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20349 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20350 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20351 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20352 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20353 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20354 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20357 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20358 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20359 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20360 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20361 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20364 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20365 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20366 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20367 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20368 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20369 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20370 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20371 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20373 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20374 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20375 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20376 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20377 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20378 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20379 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20380 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20381 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20382 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20383 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20384 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20385 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20386 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20387 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20388 security, and privacy fixes.
20390 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20391 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20392 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20393 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20394 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20395 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20396 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20397 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20398 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20399 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20400 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20402 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20403 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20404 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20406 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20408 o Major features (better link encryption):
20409 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20410 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20411 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20412 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20413 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20414 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20417 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20418 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20419 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20420 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20422 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20424 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20425 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20426 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20427 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20428 them to solve bug 6033.)
20430 o Major features (relay performance):
20431 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20432 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20433 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20434 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20435 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20436 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20437 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20438 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20439 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20440 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20441 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20442 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20443 Implements ticket 9574.
20445 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20446 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20447 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20448 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20449 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20450 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20451 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20452 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20453 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20454 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20455 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20456 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20457 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20458 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20459 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20460 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20462 o Major features (use of guards):
20463 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20464 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20465 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20466 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20467 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20468 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20469 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20470 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20471 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20472 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20473 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20474 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20475 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20476 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20478 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20479 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20480 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20481 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20483 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20484 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20487 o Major features (geoip database):
20488 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20489 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20490 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20491 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20492 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20493 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20495 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20497 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20499 o Major features (IPv6):
20500 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20501 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20502 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20503 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20504 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20505 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20506 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20507 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20508 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20509 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20510 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20511 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20512 revised in proposal 208.
20513 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20514 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20515 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20517 o Major features (directory authorities):
20518 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20519 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20521 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20522 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20523 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20524 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20525 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20526 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20527 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20528 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20529 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20530 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20531 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20533 o Major features (build and portability):
20534 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20535 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20536 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20537 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20538 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20539 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20540 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20541 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20542 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20543 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20544 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20545 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20547 o Security features:
20548 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20549 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20550 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20551 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20552 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20553 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20554 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20555 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20556 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20559 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20560 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20561 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20562 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20563 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20564 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20565 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20566 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20567 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20568 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20569 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20570 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20571 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20572 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20573 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20574 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20575 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20576 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20578 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20579 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20580 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20581 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20583 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20584 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20585 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20587 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20588 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20589 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20590 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20591 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20592 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20593 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20594 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20595 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20597 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20598 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20600 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20601 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20602 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20603 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20604 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20605 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20606 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20607 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20608 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20609 last time we raised it).
20610 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20611 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20612 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20614 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20615 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20616 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20617 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20618 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20619 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20620 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20621 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20622 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20623 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20624 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20625 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20626 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20628 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20629 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20630 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20631 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20632 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20633 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20634 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20635 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20636 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20637 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20638 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20639 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20640 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20642 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20643 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20644 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20645 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20646 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20647 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20648 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20649 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20650 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20652 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20653 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20654 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20655 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20656 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20657 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20658 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20659 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20660 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20661 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20662 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20663 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20664 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20665 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20666 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20667 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20668 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20671 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20672 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20673 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20674 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20676 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20677 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20678 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20679 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20681 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20682 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20683 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20684 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20685 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20686 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20689 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20690 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20691 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20692 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20693 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20694 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20695 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20697 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20698 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20699 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20700 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20702 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20703 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20704 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20705 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20706 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20707 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20708 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20709 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20711 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20712 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20713 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20715 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20716 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20717 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20719 o Internal abstraction features:
20720 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20721 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20722 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20723 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20724 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20725 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20726 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20727 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20728 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20729 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20730 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20731 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20732 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20733 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20734 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20735 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20736 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20738 o New build requirements:
20739 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20740 strongly recommended.
20741 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20742 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20743 from a source distribution.)
20745 o Minor features (protocol):
20746 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20747 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20749 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20750 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20751 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20752 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20753 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20754 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20755 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20756 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20757 closes ticket 7199.
20758 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20759 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20761 o Minor features (security):
20762 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20763 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20764 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20765 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20766 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20767 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20768 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20769 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20770 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20772 o Minor features (control protocol):
20773 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20775 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20776 Implements ticket 4971.
20777 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20778 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20779 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20780 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20781 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20783 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20784 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20786 o Minor features (path selection):
20787 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20788 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20789 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20790 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20791 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20792 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20793 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20794 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20795 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20796 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20797 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20798 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20799 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20800 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20802 o Minor features (hidden services):
20803 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20804 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20805 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20806 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20807 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20808 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20809 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20810 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20811 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20812 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20813 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20814 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20815 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20817 o Minor features (clients):
20818 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20819 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20820 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20821 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20822 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20823 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20824 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20825 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20826 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20828 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20829 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20830 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20831 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20832 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20833 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20834 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20835 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20836 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20837 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20838 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20839 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20840 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20841 Implements part of proposal 222.
20843 o Minor features (bridges):
20844 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20845 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20846 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20847 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20848 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20849 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20850 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20851 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20852 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20853 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20854 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20855 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20856 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20857 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20859 o Minor features (relays):
20860 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20861 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20863 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20864 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20865 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20866 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20867 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20868 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20869 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20870 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20871 connect to the wrong addresses.
20872 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20873 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20874 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20875 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20878 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20879 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20880 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20881 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20882 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20883 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20885 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20886 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20887 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20888 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20890 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20891 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20892 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20893 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20894 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20895 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20897 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20898 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20899 Implements ticket 8151.
20900 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20901 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20902 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20903 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20905 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20906 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20907 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20908 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20909 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20910 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20911 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20912 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20913 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20914 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20915 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20916 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20917 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20918 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20919 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20920 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20921 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20922 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20923 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20924 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20925 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20926 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20927 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20928 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20929 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20930 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20931 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20932 detection capability loss.
20934 o Minor features (build):
20935 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20936 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20937 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20939 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20940 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20941 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20943 o Build improvements (autotools):
20944 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20945 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20946 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20948 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20949 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20950 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20951 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20953 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20954 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20955 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20956 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20957 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20958 than to perform erroneously.
20959 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
20961 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20962 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20963 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20965 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
20966 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
20967 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
20968 hard-to-track-down errors.
20969 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20970 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20971 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
20972 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
20973 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
20974 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
20975 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
20976 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20977 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
20978 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
20979 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
20981 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
20982 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
20983 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
20984 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
20985 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
20986 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
20987 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
20988 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
20989 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
20990 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
20992 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
20993 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
20994 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
20995 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
20996 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
20997 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
20998 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
20999 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
21000 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
21001 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
21002 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21003 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21004 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21006 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21007 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21008 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21009 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21010 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21011 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21012 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21013 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21014 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21016 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
21017 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21018 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21019 part of ticket 6736.
21020 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21021 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21022 Resolves ticket 6758.
21023 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21024 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21025 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21026 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21027 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21028 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21029 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21031 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21032 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21033 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21034 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21036 o Minor features (testing):
21037 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
21038 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
21040 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21041 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21042 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21045 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21046 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21048 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
21049 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
21050 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
21051 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21052 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21053 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21054 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21055 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21056 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21057 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
21058 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
21059 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
21060 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
21061 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
21062 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
21063 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
21064 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
21066 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
21067 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21068 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21069 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21070 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21071 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21072 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21073 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21074 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21075 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21076 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
21077 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
21078 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21079 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21080 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21081 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21082 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21083 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21084 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21085 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21088 o Minor fixes (config options):
21089 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21090 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21091 or we just won't work.)
21092 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21093 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21094 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21095 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21096 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21097 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21098 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21099 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21100 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21101 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21102 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21103 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21104 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21105 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21106 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21107 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21108 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21109 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21110 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21112 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
21113 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21114 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21116 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21117 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21118 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21119 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21121 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
21122 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21123 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21124 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21125 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21126 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21127 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21128 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21129 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21130 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21131 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21132 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21133 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21134 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21135 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21136 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21139 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
21140 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21141 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21142 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21143 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21144 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21145 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21146 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21147 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21148 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21149 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21150 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21151 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21152 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21153 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21154 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21155 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21157 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21158 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21159 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21160 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21161 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21162 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21163 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21164 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21166 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21167 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21168 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21169 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21171 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
21172 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21173 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21174 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21175 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21177 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21178 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21179 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21180 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21181 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21182 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21184 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21185 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21186 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21187 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21188 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21189 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21190 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21191 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21192 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21194 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21195 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21196 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21197 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21198 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21199 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21200 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21201 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21202 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21203 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21204 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21205 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21207 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21208 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21209 this is CID 718634.
21210 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21211 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21212 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21213 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21215 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21216 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21218 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21219 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21220 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21221 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21222 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21223 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21224 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21225 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21226 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21227 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21228 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21229 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21230 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21231 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21232 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21233 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21234 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21235 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21237 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
21238 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21239 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21240 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21241 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21242 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21243 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21244 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21245 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21246 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21247 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21248 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21249 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21252 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
21253 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21254 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21255 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21256 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21258 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21259 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21260 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21261 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21262 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21263 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21264 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21265 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21266 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21269 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21270 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
21271 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21272 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21274 o Documentation fixes:
21275 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21276 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21277 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21278 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21279 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21280 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21281 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21283 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21284 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21285 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21286 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21287 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21288 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21289 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21290 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21291 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21292 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21293 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21294 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21295 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21297 o Removed features:
21298 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21299 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21300 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21302 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21303 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21304 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21305 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21306 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21307 compatibility code.
21310 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21311 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21313 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21314 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21316 o Code simplification:
21317 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21318 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21319 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21320 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21322 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21323 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21325 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21326 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21327 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21328 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21329 present the same extensions.)
21330 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21332 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21333 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21334 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21335 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21337 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21338 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21339 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21340 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21343 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21345 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21346 and the different handshakes it supports.
21347 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21348 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21349 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21350 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21352 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21353 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21354 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21355 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21356 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21357 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21358 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21359 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21360 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21361 Implements ticket 5529.
21362 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21363 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21364 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21367 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21368 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21369 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21370 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21371 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21372 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21373 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21374 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21375 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21376 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21377 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21378 any encoding is overkill.
21379 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21380 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21381 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21382 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21383 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21384 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21385 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21386 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21387 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21390 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21391 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21392 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21393 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21394 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21395 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21396 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21397 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21399 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21400 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21401 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21402 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21403 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21404 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21405 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21406 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21407 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21408 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21409 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21411 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21412 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21413 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21414 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21415 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21416 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21417 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21418 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21419 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21420 describes microdescriptors.
21422 o Major features (build hardening):
21423 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21425 o Major features (relay scaling):
21426 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21427 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21428 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21429 much faster than other AES implementations.
21430 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21431 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21432 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21433 Resolves ticket 4526.
21434 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21435 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21437 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21438 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21439 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21440 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21442 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21443 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21445 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21446 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21447 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21448 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21449 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21450 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21451 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21452 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21453 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21454 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21455 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21456 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21457 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21458 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21459 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21460 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21461 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21462 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21463 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21465 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21466 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21467 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21468 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21469 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21471 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21472 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21473 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21474 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21475 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21476 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21477 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21478 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21479 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21480 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21481 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21482 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21484 o Major features (hidden services):
21485 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21486 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21487 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21489 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21490 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21491 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21492 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21493 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21494 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21496 o Major features (IPv6):
21497 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21498 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21499 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21500 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21501 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21503 o Major features (directory authorities):
21504 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21505 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21506 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21507 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21508 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21509 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21510 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21511 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21512 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21513 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21515 o Major features (performance):
21516 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21517 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21518 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21519 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21520 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21521 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21522 side of Proposal 174.
21523 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21524 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21525 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21526 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21527 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21528 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21529 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21530 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21531 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21532 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21533 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21534 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21536 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21537 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21538 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21539 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21540 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21543 o Major features (relays):
21544 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21545 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21546 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21547 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21548 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21549 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21550 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21552 o Major features (stream isolation):
21553 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21554 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21555 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21556 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21557 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21558 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21559 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21560 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21561 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21562 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21563 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21564 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21565 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21566 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21568 o Major features (bufferevents):
21569 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21570 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21571 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21572 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21573 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21574 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21575 zero-copy transports where available.
21576 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21577 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21578 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21579 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21580 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21581 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21583 o Major features (path selection):
21584 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21585 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21586 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21587 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21590 o Major features (port forwarding):
21591 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21592 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21593 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21594 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21595 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21596 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21598 o Major features (logging):
21599 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21600 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21601 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21602 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21603 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21604 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21605 Implements enhancement 1668.
21607 o Major features (other):
21608 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21609 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21610 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21611 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21612 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21613 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21614 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21615 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21616 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21617 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21618 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21619 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21620 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21621 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21622 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21623 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21624 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21625 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21626 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21627 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21629 o New directory authorities:
21630 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21631 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21633 o Security/privacy fixes:
21634 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21635 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21636 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21637 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21638 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21639 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21640 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21641 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21642 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21643 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21644 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21645 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21646 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21647 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21648 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21649 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21650 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21651 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21652 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21653 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21654 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21655 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21656 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21657 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21658 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21659 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21660 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21661 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21662 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21663 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21664 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21666 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21667 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21668 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21669 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21670 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21671 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21672 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21673 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21674 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21675 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21676 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21677 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21678 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21679 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21682 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21683 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21684 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21685 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21686 which introduced predicted ports.
21687 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21688 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21689 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21690 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21691 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21692 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21693 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21694 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21695 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21697 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21698 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21699 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21700 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21701 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21702 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21704 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21705 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21706 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21707 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21708 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21709 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21710 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21711 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21712 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21713 documents entirely.
21715 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21716 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21717 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21718 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21719 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21720 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21721 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21722 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21723 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21724 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21725 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21726 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21727 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21728 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21729 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21730 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21731 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21732 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21734 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21735 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21736 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21737 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21738 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21739 cells were introduced.
21740 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21741 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21742 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21743 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21745 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21746 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21747 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21748 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21749 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21750 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21751 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21752 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21753 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21754 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21755 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21756 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21757 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21758 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21759 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21760 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21761 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21762 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21763 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21764 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21766 o Changes to default torrc file:
21767 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21768 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21770 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21771 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21772 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21774 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21775 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21776 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21778 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21779 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21780 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21781 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21782 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21783 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21784 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21785 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21786 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21787 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21788 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21789 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21790 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21791 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21792 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21793 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21796 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21797 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21798 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21799 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21800 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21801 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21802 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21803 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21804 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21805 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
21806 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
21807 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
21808 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21809 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21811 o Minor features (IPv6):
21812 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21813 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21814 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21815 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21816 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21817 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21819 o Minor features (hidden services):
21820 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21821 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21822 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21823 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21824 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21825 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21826 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21827 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21828 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21829 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21830 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21832 o Minor features (relays):
21833 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21834 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21835 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21836 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21837 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21838 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21839 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21840 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21841 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21842 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21843 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21846 o Minor features (new config options):
21847 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21848 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21849 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21850 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21851 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21852 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21853 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21854 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21855 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21856 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21857 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21858 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21860 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21861 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21862 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21863 Implements issue 933.
21864 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21865 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21866 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21867 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21868 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21869 implements ticket 3439.
21870 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21871 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21872 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21873 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21874 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21875 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21876 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21877 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21879 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21880 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21881 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21882 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21883 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21884 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21885 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21886 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21887 appending to the list.
21888 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21889 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21890 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21891 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21894 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21895 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21896 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21897 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21898 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21899 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21900 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21902 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21903 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21904 circuit-status' control-port command.
21905 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21906 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21907 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21908 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21909 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21910 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21912 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21913 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21914 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21915 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21916 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21917 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21918 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21919 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21920 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21922 o Minor features (controller, other):
21923 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21924 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21925 part of ticket 3457.
21926 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21927 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21928 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21929 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21930 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21932 o Minor features (log messages):
21933 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
21934 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
21935 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
21936 please let us know about it.
21937 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
21938 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
21939 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
21940 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
21941 Resolves ticket 2474.
21942 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21943 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21945 o Minor features (other):
21946 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
21947 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
21948 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
21949 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
21951 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21952 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21953 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21954 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21955 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21956 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21957 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21959 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21960 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21961 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21962 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21963 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
21965 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
21966 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21967 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21968 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21969 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21970 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21971 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
21972 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
21973 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21974 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
21975 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
21976 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
21977 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
21978 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
21979 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
21980 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
21983 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
21984 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
21985 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
21986 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
21987 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
21988 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
21989 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
21990 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
21991 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
21993 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
21994 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
21995 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
21996 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
21997 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
21998 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
21999 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22000 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22001 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22002 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22004 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22005 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22006 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22007 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22008 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22009 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22010 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22011 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22012 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
22014 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22015 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22016 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22017 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22018 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22019 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22020 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22021 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
22022 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
22024 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22025 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22026 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22027 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22028 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22029 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22030 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22032 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22033 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22034 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22035 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22037 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22038 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
22039 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
22040 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22041 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22042 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22043 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22044 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22045 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22046 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22047 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22048 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22051 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
22052 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22053 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22054 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22055 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22056 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22058 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22059 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22060 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22061 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22062 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
22063 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22064 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22065 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22066 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22067 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22068 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22069 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
22070 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
22071 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22072 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22074 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
22075 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
22076 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
22077 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
22078 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
22079 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
22081 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22082 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22083 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22084 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22085 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22086 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22087 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22088 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22089 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22090 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22091 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22092 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22093 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22094 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22095 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22097 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
22098 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22099 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22100 be disabled using the new
22101 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22102 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22103 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22104 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22105 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22106 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22107 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22109 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
22110 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22111 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22112 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22113 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
22114 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
22115 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
22117 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22118 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22119 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22120 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22121 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22122 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
22123 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
22124 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
22126 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22127 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22128 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22129 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22130 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22131 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22132 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22133 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22135 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22136 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
22137 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
22138 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
22139 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
22140 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
22141 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
22142 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
22144 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22145 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22146 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22147 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22149 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22150 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22151 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22153 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22154 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
22156 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
22157 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22158 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22159 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22160 case for flushing marked connections.
22161 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22162 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22163 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22164 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22165 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22166 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22167 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22168 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22169 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22170 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22172 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22173 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22174 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22175 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22176 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22177 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22178 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22179 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22180 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22181 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22182 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22184 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22185 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22186 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22187 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22188 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22190 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
22191 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22192 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22193 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22194 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22195 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22196 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22197 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22198 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22199 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22200 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22201 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
22202 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
22203 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
22204 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
22205 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
22207 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
22208 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22209 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22210 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22211 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22212 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22213 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22214 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22215 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22216 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
22217 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
22218 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
22219 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
22220 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22221 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
22222 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
22223 Implements ticket 3264.
22224 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
22226 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22227 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22228 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22229 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22230 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22231 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22233 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
22234 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22235 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22236 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22237 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22238 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22239 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22240 them from the other auths.
22241 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22242 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22243 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22244 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22245 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22246 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22247 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22248 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
22252 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22253 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22254 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22256 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22257 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22258 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22259 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22260 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22261 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
22262 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22263 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
22265 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
22266 ./src/test/bench binary.
22267 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
22268 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
22269 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
22270 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
22273 o Build improvements:
22274 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22275 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22276 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22277 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22278 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22279 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22280 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22281 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22282 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22283 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22284 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22285 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22286 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22287 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22288 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22289 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22290 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22291 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22292 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22293 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22294 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22296 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22298 o Build requirements:
22299 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22300 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22301 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22302 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22303 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22304 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22305 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22306 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22307 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22308 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22309 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22310 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22311 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22313 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22314 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22315 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22317 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22318 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22319 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22320 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22321 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22322 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22323 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22324 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22325 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22327 o Build fixes (other):
22328 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22329 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22331 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22332 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22333 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22334 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22335 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22336 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22337 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22338 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22340 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22341 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22344 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22345 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22346 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22347 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22348 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22349 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22350 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22351 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22353 o Code refactoring (safety):
22354 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22355 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22356 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22357 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22358 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22359 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22360 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22361 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22362 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22363 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22364 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22365 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22367 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22368 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22369 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22370 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22371 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22372 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22373 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22374 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22375 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22376 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22377 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22378 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22379 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22380 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22381 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22382 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22383 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22384 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22386 o Code refactoring (separate):
22387 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22388 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22389 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22391 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22392 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22395 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22396 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22397 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22398 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22399 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22400 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22401 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22402 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22404 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22405 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22406 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22407 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22408 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22409 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22410 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22411 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22412 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22413 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22414 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22416 o Code refactoring (other):
22417 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22418 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22420 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22421 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22422 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22423 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22424 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22425 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22426 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22427 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22428 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22429 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22430 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22431 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22433 o Removed features and files:
22434 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22435 it would be a bad idea to start.
22436 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22438 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22439 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22440 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22441 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22442 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22443 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22444 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22445 are no longer in use as relays.
22446 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22447 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22448 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22449 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22450 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22451 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22455 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22456 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22457 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22459 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22460 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22462 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22463 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22464 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22466 o Documentation fixes:
22467 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22468 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22469 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22470 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22471 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22472 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22473 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22474 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22477 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22478 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22482 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22483 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22484 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22485 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22486 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22487 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22488 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22492 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22493 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22494 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22497 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22498 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22499 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22500 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22501 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22502 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22503 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22504 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22505 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22506 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22507 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22508 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22509 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22510 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22513 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22514 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22515 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22519 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22520 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22521 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22522 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22523 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22524 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22525 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22526 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22527 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22528 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22529 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22532 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22533 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22536 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22537 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22540 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22541 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22542 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22543 and fixes several crash bugs.
22545 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22546 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22547 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22548 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22550 o Directory authority changes:
22551 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22552 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22556 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22557 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22558 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22559 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22560 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22561 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22562 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22563 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22564 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22565 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22566 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22567 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22568 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22569 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22570 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22571 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22572 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22573 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22574 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22575 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22576 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22577 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22578 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22579 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22580 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22581 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22582 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22585 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22586 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22587 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22588 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22590 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22591 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22593 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22594 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22595 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22596 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22597 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22598 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22599 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22600 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22603 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22604 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22605 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22606 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22607 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22608 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22609 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22610 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22611 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22612 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22613 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22614 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22615 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22616 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22617 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22618 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22619 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22620 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22621 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22622 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22623 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22624 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22625 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22626 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22627 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22628 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22629 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22630 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22631 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22632 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22633 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22634 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22635 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22636 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22637 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22638 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22639 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22640 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22641 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22642 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22643 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22644 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22645 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22646 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22647 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22648 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22650 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22651 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22652 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22653 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22654 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22655 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22656 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22657 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22658 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22659 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22660 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22661 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22662 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22663 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22664 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22667 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22668 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22669 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22670 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22672 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22675 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22676 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22677 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22678 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22679 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22680 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22681 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22684 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22685 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22686 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22688 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22689 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22690 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22691 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22692 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22693 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22694 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22695 (which Tor does not do by default).
22697 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22698 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22699 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22700 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22701 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22703 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22704 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22705 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22708 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22709 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22710 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22711 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22712 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22714 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22715 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22718 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22719 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22720 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22721 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22722 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22723 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22724 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22725 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22727 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22728 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22729 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22730 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22731 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22732 close based on processing a cell on it.
22733 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22734 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22735 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22736 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22737 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22738 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22739 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22740 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22741 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22742 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22743 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22744 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22745 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22746 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22747 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22750 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22751 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22752 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22753 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22754 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22755 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22756 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22758 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22759 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22760 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22761 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22762 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22763 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22764 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22765 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22766 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22767 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22768 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22769 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22770 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22771 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22772 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22773 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22774 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22775 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22776 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22777 Reported by "troll_un".
22778 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22779 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22780 Reported by "troll_un".
22781 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22782 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22783 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22784 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22787 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22788 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22789 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22790 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22791 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22792 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22793 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22794 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22795 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22796 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22797 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22799 o Packaging changes:
22800 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22801 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22804 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22805 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22806 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22807 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22808 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22810 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22811 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22813 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22814 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22815 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22816 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22817 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22818 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22819 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22820 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22821 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22824 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22827 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22828 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22829 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22831 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22832 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22833 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22834 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22835 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22836 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22837 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22838 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22839 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22840 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22841 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22842 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22843 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22845 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22846 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22847 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22848 currently connected to them.
22850 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22851 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22852 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22854 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22855 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22856 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22857 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22858 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22859 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22860 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22861 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22862 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22863 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22864 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22865 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22866 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22867 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22868 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22869 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22870 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22871 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22874 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22875 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22876 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22877 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22878 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22879 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22880 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22881 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22882 when bridges were introduced.
22883 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22884 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22885 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22886 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22887 Found by "frosty_un".
22890 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22891 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22893 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22894 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22895 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22896 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22897 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22898 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22899 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22902 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22903 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22904 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22905 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22906 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22907 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22908 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22909 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22910 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22911 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22912 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22913 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22914 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22915 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22916 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22917 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22918 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22919 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22921 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22922 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22923 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22924 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22925 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22926 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22927 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22928 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22929 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22930 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22931 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22932 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22935 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22936 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22937 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
22938 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22941 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
22942 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22943 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22944 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22945 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22947 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22948 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22949 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22950 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22951 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22952 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22953 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22954 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22955 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22956 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22958 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22959 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22960 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22961 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22962 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22963 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22964 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22965 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22966 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22967 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22968 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22969 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22970 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22971 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22972 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22973 Found by "frosty_un".
22974 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
22975 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
22976 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
22977 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
22978 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
22979 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
22980 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
22981 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
22982 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
22983 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
22984 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
22985 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
22986 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22987 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
22988 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
22989 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
22990 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
22991 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
22992 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
22994 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22995 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
22996 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
22997 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
22998 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
22999 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23000 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23001 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23003 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23004 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23005 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23006 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23007 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23008 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23009 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23010 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23011 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23012 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23013 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23014 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23016 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23017 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23018 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23019 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23020 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23021 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23022 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23023 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23024 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23026 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23028 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23029 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23030 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23031 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23032 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23033 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23034 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23035 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23037 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23038 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23039 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23040 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23041 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23043 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23044 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23045 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23046 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23047 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23050 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23051 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23052 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23053 reachable from Iran again.
23056 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23057 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23058 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23060 o Minor features (security):
23061 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23062 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23063 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23064 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23065 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23066 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23067 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23068 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23069 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23070 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23073 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23074 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23075 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23076 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23077 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23078 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23079 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23080 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23081 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23083 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23084 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23085 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23086 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23087 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23088 raised by bug 3898.
23089 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23090 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23091 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23092 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23093 fixes part of bug 2442.
23094 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23095 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23096 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23098 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23099 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23100 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23101 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23102 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23105 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23106 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23107 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23108 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23109 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23110 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23113 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23114 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23115 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23116 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23117 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23118 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23119 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23120 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23121 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23122 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23124 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23125 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23126 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23127 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23128 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23129 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23130 many many other features and bugfixes.
23132 o Major features (client performance):
23133 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
23134 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
23135 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23136 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
23137 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23138 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23140 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23141 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23142 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
23143 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
23144 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
23145 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
23146 the first implementation of this feature.
23148 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
23149 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23150 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23151 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23152 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23153 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23154 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23155 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23156 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
23157 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
23158 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
23159 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
23160 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
23161 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
23162 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
23163 file. Implements ticket 1296.
23165 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
23166 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
23167 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
23168 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
23169 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
23170 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
23171 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
23172 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
23173 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
23174 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
23175 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23176 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23177 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23178 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23179 they first get the Guard flag.
23180 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
23181 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
23182 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
23183 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
23184 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
23185 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
23186 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23187 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23189 o Major features (relays control their load better):
23190 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23191 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23192 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23193 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23194 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
23195 based on a variant of proposal 163.
23196 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23197 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23198 but never per-conn write limits.
23199 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23200 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23201 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23202 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23204 o Major features (controllers):
23205 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
23206 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
23207 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
23208 contributions to the network.
23209 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
23210 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
23211 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
23213 o Major features (directory authorities):
23214 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23215 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23216 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23218 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
23219 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23220 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
23221 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23222 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23223 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23224 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23225 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23226 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23227 hash algorithm in the future.
23228 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23229 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23230 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23232 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
23233 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
23234 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
23235 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
23236 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
23237 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
23238 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
23239 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
23240 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
23241 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
23242 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
23243 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
23244 connections to directory servers.
23245 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
23246 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
23247 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
23248 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
23249 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
23250 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
23251 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
23252 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
23253 information, or fetch directory information.
23254 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
23255 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23256 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23257 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23258 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23260 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23261 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23262 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23263 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23264 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23265 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23266 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23267 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23268 the network changes.
23269 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23270 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23272 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
23273 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
23274 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
23275 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
23276 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
23277 unless you really want your Tor to break.
23278 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23279 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23280 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23281 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23282 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23283 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23284 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23285 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23286 reachability self-tests.
23287 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23288 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23289 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23290 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23291 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23293 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23294 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23295 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23297 o Major features (misc):
23298 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23299 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23300 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23301 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23302 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23303 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23304 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23305 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23306 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23307 part of ticket 3076.
23308 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23309 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23310 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23312 o Code security improvements:
23313 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23314 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23315 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23316 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23317 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23318 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23319 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23320 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23321 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23322 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23323 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23324 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23325 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23326 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23327 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23328 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23329 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23330 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23331 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23332 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23333 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23334 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23335 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23336 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23337 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23338 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23339 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23340 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23342 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23343 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23344 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23345 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23346 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23347 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23348 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23349 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23350 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23351 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23352 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23353 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23354 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23356 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23357 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23358 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23360 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23361 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23363 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23364 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23365 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23366 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23367 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23368 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23369 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23370 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23371 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23372 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23373 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23374 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23375 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23376 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23377 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23378 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23379 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23381 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23382 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23383 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23385 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23386 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23387 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23388 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23389 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23390 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23391 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23392 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23393 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23394 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23395 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23396 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23397 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23398 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23399 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23400 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23401 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23402 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23403 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23405 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23406 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23407 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23408 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23409 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23410 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23411 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23412 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23413 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23414 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23416 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23417 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23418 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23419 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23420 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23421 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23422 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23423 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23424 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23425 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23427 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23428 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23429 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23430 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23431 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23432 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23433 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23434 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23435 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23436 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23437 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23438 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23439 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23441 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23442 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23443 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23444 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23445 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23446 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23447 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23448 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23449 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23450 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23452 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23453 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23454 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23455 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23456 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23457 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23458 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23460 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23461 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23462 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23463 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23464 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23465 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23466 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23467 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23468 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23469 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23470 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23471 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23472 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23473 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23474 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23476 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23477 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23478 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23479 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23480 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23481 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23482 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23484 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23485 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23486 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23487 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23488 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23489 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23490 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23491 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23493 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23494 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23495 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23496 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23497 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23498 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23499 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23500 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23501 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23502 the longest-lived bug prize.
23503 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23504 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23505 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23506 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23507 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23508 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23509 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23510 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23511 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23512 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23514 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23515 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23516 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23517 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23518 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23519 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23522 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23523 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23524 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23525 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23526 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23527 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23528 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23529 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23530 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23531 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23532 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23533 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23534 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23535 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23536 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23537 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23538 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23539 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23540 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23541 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23542 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23543 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23544 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23545 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23546 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23547 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23549 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23550 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23551 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23552 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23553 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23554 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23555 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23556 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23557 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23559 o Minor features (relays):
23560 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23561 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23562 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23563 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23564 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23565 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23566 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23567 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23569 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23570 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23571 Resolves ticket 3252.
23572 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23573 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23575 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23576 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23577 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23578 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23579 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23581 o Minor features (network statistics):
23582 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23583 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23584 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23585 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23586 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23587 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23588 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23589 measure download times.
23590 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23591 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23593 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23594 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23595 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23596 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23598 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23599 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23600 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23602 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23603 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23604 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23605 Implements ticket 2432.
23606 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23607 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23608 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23609 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23610 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23611 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23612 Implements enhancement 1790.
23613 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23614 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23616 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23617 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23618 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23619 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23620 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23621 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23622 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23624 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23626 o Minor features (clients):
23627 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23628 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23629 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23630 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23632 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23633 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23634 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23635 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23636 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23637 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23638 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23639 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23641 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23642 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23643 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23644 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23645 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23646 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23647 SSL handshake issues.
23649 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23650 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23651 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23652 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23653 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23654 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23655 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23656 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23657 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23658 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23659 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23660 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23661 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23662 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23663 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23664 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23665 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23666 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23667 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23668 hour of their uptime.
23669 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23670 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23671 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23672 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23674 o Minor features (hidden services):
23675 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23676 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23677 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23678 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23679 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23680 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23681 by fix for bug 3000.
23682 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23683 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23684 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23685 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23686 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23688 o Minor features (controller interface):
23689 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23690 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23691 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23692 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23693 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23694 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23695 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23696 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23697 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23698 over our stored history.
23699 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23700 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23701 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23703 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23704 to the circuit build timeout.
23705 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23706 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23707 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23709 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23710 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23711 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23712 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23714 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23715 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23716 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23717 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23718 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23719 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23720 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23721 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23722 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23723 arguments we do not recognize.
23725 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23726 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23727 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23728 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23729 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23730 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23731 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23732 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23733 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23734 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23735 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23736 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23737 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23738 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23739 got suppressed since the last warning.
23740 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23741 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23742 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23743 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23744 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23745 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23746 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23748 o Minor features (log domains):
23749 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23750 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23751 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23753 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23754 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23756 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23757 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23758 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23760 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23761 during the TLS handshake.
23763 o Minor features (build process):
23764 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23765 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23766 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23768 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23769 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23770 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23772 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23773 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23774 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23775 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23776 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23777 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23779 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23780 source files Tor was built with.
23781 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23782 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23783 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23784 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23785 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23786 speeds up the build considerably.
23788 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23789 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23790 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23791 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23792 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23793 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23794 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23795 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23796 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23797 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23798 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23799 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23800 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23801 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23802 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23803 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23804 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23805 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23806 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23807 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23808 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23809 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23810 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23811 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23812 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23813 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23814 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23815 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23817 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23818 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23819 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23822 o Minor features (unit tests):
23823 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23824 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23825 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23826 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23827 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23828 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23830 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23831 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23834 o Minor features (misc):
23835 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23836 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23837 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23838 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23840 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23841 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23842 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23843 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23844 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23846 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23847 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23848 open() without checking it.
23849 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23850 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23851 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23852 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23854 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23855 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23856 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23857 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23858 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23859 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23860 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23861 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23862 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23863 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23864 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23865 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23866 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23867 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23868 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23869 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23870 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23871 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23872 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23873 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23874 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23875 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23876 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23877 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23878 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23879 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23880 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23881 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23883 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23884 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23885 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23886 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23888 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23889 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23890 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23891 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23892 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23894 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23895 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23896 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23897 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23898 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23899 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23900 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23901 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23902 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23903 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23904 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23905 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23906 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23908 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23909 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23910 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23911 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23912 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23913 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23914 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23915 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23916 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23917 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23918 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23919 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23920 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23921 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23922 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23923 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23924 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23925 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23926 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23927 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23928 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23930 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23931 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23932 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23933 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
23934 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
23935 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
23936 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
23937 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
23938 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
23940 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
23941 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
23942 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
23943 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
23944 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
23945 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23946 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23947 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23948 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23949 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23950 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23951 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23952 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23955 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23956 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
23957 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
23958 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
23959 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23960 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
23961 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
23962 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
23963 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
23964 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
23965 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
23967 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23968 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23970 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
23971 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
23972 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
23973 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
23974 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
23975 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
23976 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
23977 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
23979 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
23980 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
23981 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
23982 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23983 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
23984 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
23985 discovered by katmagic.
23986 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
23987 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
23989 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
23990 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
23991 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23992 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23993 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23994 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23995 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23996 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23997 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23999 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24000 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24002 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24003 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24005 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24006 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24008 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
24009 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
24010 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
24011 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24012 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
24013 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
24014 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24015 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
24016 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
24017 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
24018 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
24019 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
24020 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
24021 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
24022 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
24024 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
24025 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24026 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24027 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24028 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
24029 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
24030 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
24031 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
24032 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
24034 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
24035 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24036 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24038 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24039 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24040 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24041 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24043 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
24044 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24045 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24046 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24047 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24048 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
24049 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
24051 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24052 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24053 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24054 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24055 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24056 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24058 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
24059 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
24060 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
24061 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
24062 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
24063 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
24064 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
24065 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24066 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
24068 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
24069 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
24070 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24071 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24072 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24073 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24074 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24075 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24076 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
24077 control-spec.txt said they were.
24079 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24080 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24081 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24083 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24084 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24085 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
24086 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
24087 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
24089 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24090 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24092 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24093 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24094 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24095 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24096 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24097 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24098 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24100 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24101 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24102 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24103 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24104 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
24105 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
24106 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
24107 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
24110 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24111 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24112 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24113 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24114 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24115 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24116 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24117 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24118 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24119 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24120 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24121 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24122 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24123 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24124 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
24126 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24127 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
24128 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
24129 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24130 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24131 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24132 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24134 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24135 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24138 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24139 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24140 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24141 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24142 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24143 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24144 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24145 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24146 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24147 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24148 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24149 fixes part of bug 3407.
24150 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24151 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24152 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24153 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24154 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24155 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24156 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24157 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24158 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24159 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24161 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24162 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24163 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24164 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24165 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24166 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24167 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24168 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24169 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24170 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24171 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24172 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24173 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24174 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24175 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24176 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24177 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24179 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24180 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24181 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24182 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24183 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24184 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24185 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24186 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
24187 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
24188 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
24189 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
24190 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
24192 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24193 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24194 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24195 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24196 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24198 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
24199 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24200 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24201 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24203 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
24204 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
24205 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
24206 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
24207 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
24208 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
24209 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
24210 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
24211 structures and defines in or.h for now.
24212 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24214 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24215 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24216 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24217 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24218 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24219 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24220 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24221 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24223 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
24224 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
24225 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
24227 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24228 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
24229 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
24230 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
24231 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
24232 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
24233 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
24234 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24235 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24236 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24238 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24240 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24241 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24242 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24243 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24244 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24245 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24246 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24247 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24248 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
24249 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
24251 o Documentation changes:
24252 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24253 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24255 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24256 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
24257 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
24258 what should go in a patch.
24259 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
24261 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
24262 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
24263 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
24264 projects directory in svn.
24266 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
24267 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
24268 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
24269 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24270 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
24271 hidden service usage.
24272 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
24273 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
24274 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24275 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24276 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24279 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24280 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24281 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24282 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24283 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24286 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24287 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24288 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24289 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24290 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24291 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24292 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24293 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24294 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24295 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24296 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24297 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24298 via application-level web tricks.
24299 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24300 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24301 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24302 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24303 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24304 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24305 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24306 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24307 keep the workaround in place.
24308 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24309 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24310 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24311 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24312 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24313 want to do it differently.
24314 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24315 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24316 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24319 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24320 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24321 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24322 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24323 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24324 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24327 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24328 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24329 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24330 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24331 the rest of bug 1074.
24332 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24333 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24334 Found by "piebeer".
24335 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24336 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24337 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24338 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24339 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24340 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24341 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24344 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24346 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24349 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24350 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24351 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24352 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24353 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24354 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24355 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24356 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24357 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24358 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24359 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24361 o Packaging changes:
24362 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24363 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24364 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24365 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24366 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24367 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24370 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24371 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24372 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24373 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24374 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24376 o Major bugfixes (security):
24377 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24378 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24379 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24381 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24382 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24383 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24384 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24385 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24386 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24387 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24388 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24390 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24391 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24392 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24393 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24394 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24395 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24396 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24397 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24398 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24399 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24400 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24401 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24402 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24403 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24406 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24407 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24408 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24409 bug reported by doorss.
24410 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24411 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24412 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24413 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24414 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24416 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24417 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24418 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24419 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24420 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24423 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24424 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24427 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24428 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24429 Automake 1.7 or later.
24430 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24431 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24432 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24433 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24436 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24437 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24438 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24439 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24443 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24444 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24445 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24446 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24448 o Directory authority changes:
24449 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24452 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24455 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24456 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24457 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24458 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24459 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24462 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24463 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24464 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24465 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24466 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24467 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24468 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24469 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24470 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24471 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24472 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24473 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24474 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24475 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24476 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24477 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24478 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24479 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24480 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24481 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24482 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24483 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24484 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24487 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24488 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24489 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24490 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24492 o New directory authorities:
24493 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24497 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24498 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24499 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24501 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24502 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24503 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24504 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24505 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24506 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24508 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24509 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24510 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24513 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24514 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24515 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24516 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24517 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24518 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24519 Patch from mingw-san.
24522 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24523 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24524 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24525 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24526 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24527 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24530 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24531 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24532 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24533 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24534 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24536 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24537 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24540 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24541 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24542 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24543 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24544 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24545 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24546 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24547 their directory fetches over TLS).
24548 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24549 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24550 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24551 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24552 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24553 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24554 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24555 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24558 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24559 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24563 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24564 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24565 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24566 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24567 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24568 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24569 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24572 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24573 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24574 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24575 several minor potential security bugs.
24578 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24579 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24580 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24581 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24582 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24583 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24584 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24587 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24588 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24590 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24591 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24592 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24593 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24596 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24597 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24601 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24602 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24603 customized patches to run/build.
24606 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24607 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24608 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24611 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24612 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24613 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24614 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24615 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24616 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24617 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24618 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24621 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24622 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24623 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24624 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24625 libraries in a security patch.
24626 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24627 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24628 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24629 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24633 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24634 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24637 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24638 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24639 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24640 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24641 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24644 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24645 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24646 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24647 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24648 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24650 o Directory authority changes:
24651 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24655 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24656 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24657 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24660 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24661 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24662 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24663 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24664 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24667 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24668 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24669 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24670 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24671 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24672 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24673 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24676 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24677 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24678 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24679 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24680 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24681 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24683 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24684 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24687 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24688 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24689 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24690 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24692 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24693 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24695 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24696 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24697 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24698 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24701 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24702 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24703 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24704 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24705 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24707 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24708 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24710 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24711 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24712 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24715 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24716 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24717 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24719 o New directory authorities:
24720 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24722 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24725 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24726 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24728 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24729 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24730 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24731 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24732 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24733 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24734 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24735 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24736 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24737 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24738 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24739 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24740 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24741 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24742 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24743 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24744 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24746 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24747 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24748 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24750 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24751 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24755 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24756 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24757 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24758 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24759 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24762 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24763 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24767 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24768 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24769 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24772 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24773 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24774 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24775 and confuse fewer users.
24778 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24779 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24780 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24781 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24782 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24783 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24784 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24787 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24788 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24789 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24790 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24791 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24792 other features and bug fixes.
24794 o Major features (clients):
24795 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24796 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24797 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24798 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24800 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24801 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24802 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24803 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24804 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
24805 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
24806 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
24807 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
24808 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24809 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24811 o Major features (relays):
24812 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24813 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24814 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24815 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24816 data. Found by Jacob.
24817 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24818 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24819 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24820 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24822 o Major features (hidden services):
24823 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24824 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24825 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24826 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24827 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24828 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24829 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24830 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24831 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24832 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24833 lookups more reliable.
24835 o Major features (path selection):
24836 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24837 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24838 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24839 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24840 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24842 o Major features (misc):
24843 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24844 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24846 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24847 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24848 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24849 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24850 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24851 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24853 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24854 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24855 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24856 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24858 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24861 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24862 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24863 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24864 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24865 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24866 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24867 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24868 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24869 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24870 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24871 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24872 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24873 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24874 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24875 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24876 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24877 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24878 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24879 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24880 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24881 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24882 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24883 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24884 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24885 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24886 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24887 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24888 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24889 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24890 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24891 Implements proposal 148.
24893 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24894 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24895 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24896 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24897 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24898 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24900 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24901 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24902 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24903 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24904 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24905 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24906 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24907 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24908 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24910 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24911 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24912 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24913 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24915 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24916 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24917 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24918 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24919 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24920 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24921 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24922 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24923 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24925 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24926 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24927 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24928 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24929 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24930 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24931 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24932 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24933 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24934 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24935 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24936 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24937 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24938 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24939 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24940 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24943 o Major bugfixes (relays):
24944 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24945 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24946 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24947 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24948 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24949 patch by Sebastian.
24950 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24951 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24952 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24953 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24954 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24955 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24956 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24957 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
24958 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
24959 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
24962 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24963 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24964 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
24965 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
24966 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
24967 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24969 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24970 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24971 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
24972 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
24973 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
24974 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
24975 on a typical directory cache.
24976 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
24977 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
24978 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
24979 and may reduce fragmentation.
24981 o New/changed config options:
24982 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
24983 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
24984 Suggested by Lucky Green.
24985 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
24986 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
24987 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
24988 locked down these days.
24989 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
24990 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
24991 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
24992 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
24993 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
24994 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
24995 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
24996 output to messages of warning and error severity.
24997 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
24998 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
24999 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25000 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25001 directory requests we should expect to see.
25002 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
25003 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25004 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25005 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25006 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25007 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25008 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
25010 o Minor features (relays):
25011 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
25012 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
25013 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
25014 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
25015 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
25017 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
25018 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
25019 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
25020 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25021 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25022 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25023 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25024 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25025 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25026 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25027 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25028 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25029 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25031 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25032 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25033 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25034 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25035 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25036 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
25037 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25038 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
25039 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
25040 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
25041 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
25043 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25044 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25045 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25046 fingerprints with or without space.
25048 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
25049 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25050 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25051 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25052 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25053 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25054 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25055 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25056 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25058 o Minor features (bridges):
25059 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
25060 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
25062 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
25063 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
25066 o Minor features (hidden services):
25067 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25068 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25069 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25070 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25071 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25072 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25073 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25074 faster after restart.
25075 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25076 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25078 o Minor features (build and packaging):
25079 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
25081 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25082 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25084 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25085 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25086 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25087 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25088 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
25089 are built without support for deprecated functions.
25090 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25091 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25092 system to do it for us.
25093 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
25094 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
25095 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
25096 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
25097 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
25098 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
25099 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25100 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25101 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25102 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25103 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25104 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25105 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25106 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25107 with log.h on Android.
25108 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25109 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25111 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25112 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25113 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25114 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
25116 o Minor features (controllers):
25117 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
25118 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
25119 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
25120 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
25121 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
25122 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
25123 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
25124 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25125 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25126 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25128 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25129 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25130 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25131 been fetched and validated.
25132 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25133 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
25135 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
25137 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25138 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25139 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25140 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25141 partway through and wants to catch up.
25142 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25144 o Minor features (tools):
25145 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
25146 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
25147 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25148 people find host:port too confusing.
25149 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25150 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25152 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25153 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
25154 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25155 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25156 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25157 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25158 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25159 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25160 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25162 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25163 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25164 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25165 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25166 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25168 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25169 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25170 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25172 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
25173 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25174 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
25175 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
25176 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25177 have already been marked for close.
25178 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25179 memory performance during directory parsing.
25181 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25182 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25183 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25184 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25185 done that for a long time.
25186 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
25187 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
25188 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
25189 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
25190 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
25191 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
25192 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
25193 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25194 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25195 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25196 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25197 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25198 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25199 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25200 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25201 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25202 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25203 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25204 because of a pending download.
25205 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25206 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25207 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25208 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25209 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25211 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
25212 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25213 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25214 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25215 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25216 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
25217 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
25218 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
25219 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
25221 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25222 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
25224 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
25225 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
25226 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25227 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
25228 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
25229 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
25230 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
25231 of 0. Suggested by lark.
25232 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
25233 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
25234 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
25235 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
25236 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
25238 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25239 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25240 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25242 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25243 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25245 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
25246 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
25247 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
25248 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
25249 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
25250 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25251 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25252 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25253 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25254 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25255 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25256 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25257 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25259 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25260 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
25261 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
25262 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
25263 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
25264 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
25265 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
25267 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
25268 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25270 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25271 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
25272 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
25273 Workaround for bug 1024.
25274 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25275 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25276 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25277 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25278 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25279 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25280 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25281 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25284 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25285 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25288 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25289 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25290 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25291 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25292 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25293 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25294 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25296 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25297 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25298 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25299 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25300 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25301 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25302 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25303 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25306 o Deprecated and removed features:
25307 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25308 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25309 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25311 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25313 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25314 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25315 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25316 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25317 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25318 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25319 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25320 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25321 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25322 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25323 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25324 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25325 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25326 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25329 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25330 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25331 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25332 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25333 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25335 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25336 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25337 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25338 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25339 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25340 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25341 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25342 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25343 actual mistakes we're making here.
25344 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25345 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25346 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25347 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25348 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25349 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25350 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25351 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25352 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25353 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25354 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25355 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25356 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25357 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25358 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25361 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25363 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25364 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25365 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25366 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25367 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25370 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25371 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25372 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25373 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25374 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25375 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25376 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25377 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25378 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25379 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25382 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25383 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25384 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25385 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25386 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25387 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25388 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25389 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25392 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25393 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25394 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25395 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25396 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25398 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25399 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25400 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25401 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25404 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25405 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25406 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25407 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25408 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25409 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25410 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25411 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25414 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25415 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25416 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25417 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25420 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25421 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25422 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25423 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25425 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25426 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25427 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25430 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25431 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25434 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25435 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25436 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25437 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25438 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25439 reported by "wood".
25440 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25441 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25442 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25443 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25444 identify a connection.
25445 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25446 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25447 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25448 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25449 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25450 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25451 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25452 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25453 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25454 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25456 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25457 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25458 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25459 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25460 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25461 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25462 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25465 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25466 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25468 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25469 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25470 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25471 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25472 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25473 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25474 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25475 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25477 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25478 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25479 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25480 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25481 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25482 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25483 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25484 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25485 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25486 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25487 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25488 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25489 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25490 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25491 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25492 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25493 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25494 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25495 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25496 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25497 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25498 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25499 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25500 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25501 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25502 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25503 840. Patch from rovv.
25504 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25505 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25506 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25508 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25509 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25510 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25511 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25512 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25513 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25514 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25516 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25517 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25518 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25521 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25522 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25524 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25525 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25526 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25527 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25528 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25529 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25530 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25531 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25532 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25534 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25536 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25537 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25541 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25542 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25543 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25544 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25545 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25546 variety of other issues.
25549 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25550 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25551 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25552 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25553 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25554 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25555 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25556 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25557 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25558 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25559 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25560 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25563 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25564 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25566 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25567 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25568 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25569 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25570 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25571 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25572 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25573 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25574 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25575 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25576 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25577 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25578 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25579 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25580 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25584 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25585 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25586 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25587 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25588 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25589 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25590 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25591 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25592 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25593 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25594 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25595 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25596 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25597 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25598 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25599 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25600 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25601 list. It has been gone for many months.
25602 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25603 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25604 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25607 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25608 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25609 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25612 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25613 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25614 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25615 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25618 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25619 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25620 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25621 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25622 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25623 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25625 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25626 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25627 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25628 pointed out by rovv.
25631 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25632 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25633 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25634 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25635 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25636 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25637 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25638 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25639 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25640 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25641 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25642 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25643 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25644 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25645 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25646 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25647 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25648 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25649 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25650 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25651 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25654 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25655 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25656 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25657 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25658 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25659 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25660 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25662 o New v3 directory design:
25663 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25664 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25665 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25666 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25667 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25668 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25669 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25671 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25672 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25673 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25674 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25675 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25676 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25677 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25678 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25679 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25680 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25681 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25682 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25683 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25684 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25686 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25687 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25688 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25689 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25690 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25691 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25692 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25693 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25694 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25695 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25696 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25697 certain censored countries by default again.
25698 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25699 Tor's x509 certificates.
25701 o Implement bridge relays:
25702 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25703 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25704 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25705 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25706 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25707 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25708 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25709 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25710 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25711 rather than "v2,v3".
25712 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25713 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25714 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25715 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25716 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25717 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25718 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25719 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25720 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25721 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25722 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25724 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25725 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25726 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25727 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25728 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25729 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25730 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25731 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25732 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25733 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25734 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25735 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25736 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25737 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25738 bridges are functioning.
25739 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25740 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25741 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25742 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25743 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25744 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25745 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25746 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25747 knows that password. Unset by default.
25748 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25749 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25750 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25751 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25752 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25753 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25754 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25755 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25756 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25757 and bridges@torproject.org.
25759 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25760 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25761 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25762 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25763 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25764 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25765 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25766 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25767 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25768 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25769 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25770 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25771 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25772 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25773 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25775 o Major features (relay usability):
25776 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25777 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25778 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25779 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25780 proposal 111 for details.
25781 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25782 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25783 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25784 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25786 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25787 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25788 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25790 o Major features (directory authorities):
25791 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25792 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25793 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25794 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25795 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25796 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25797 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25798 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25799 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25800 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25801 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25802 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
25803 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
25805 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25806 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
25807 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
25808 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25809 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25810 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25811 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25812 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25813 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25814 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25815 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25816 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25817 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25818 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25819 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25820 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25821 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25822 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25823 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25824 general, controller, or bridge.
25826 o Major features (other):
25827 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25828 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25829 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25830 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25831 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25832 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25833 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25834 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25835 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25836 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25837 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25838 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25839 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25840 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25843 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25844 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25845 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25847 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25848 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25849 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25850 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25851 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25852 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25853 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25854 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25855 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25856 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25857 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25859 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25860 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25862 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25863 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25864 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25865 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25867 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25868 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25869 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25870 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25871 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25873 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25874 address maps to an internal address space.
25875 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25876 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25877 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25878 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25879 complements proposal 107.
25880 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25881 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25882 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25883 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25884 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25885 reported by taranis and lodger.
25886 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25887 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25888 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25889 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25890 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25891 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25892 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25893 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25894 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25895 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25896 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25897 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25898 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25900 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25901 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25903 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25904 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25905 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25906 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25907 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25908 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25909 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25911 o Major bugfixes (other):
25912 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25913 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25914 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25916 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25917 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25918 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25919 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25920 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25921 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25922 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25923 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25924 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25925 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25926 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25927 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25928 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25929 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25930 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25931 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25932 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25933 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25934 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25936 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
25937 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25938 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25939 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25940 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25941 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25942 eat all of our bandwidth.
25943 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25944 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25945 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25946 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25947 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25948 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25949 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25950 bug 688, reported by mfr.
25951 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
25952 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25953 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25954 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25956 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
25957 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25958 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25959 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25960 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25961 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25962 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25963 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25964 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25965 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25966 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25967 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25969 o Performance improvements (memory):
25970 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
25971 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
25972 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
25973 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
25974 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
25975 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
25976 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
25977 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
25978 memory fragmentation.
25979 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
25980 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
25981 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
25982 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
25983 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
25985 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
25986 of them were actually distinct.
25987 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
25989 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
25990 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
25991 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
25992 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
25993 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
25994 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
25995 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
25996 performance-intensive.
25997 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
25998 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
25999 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26000 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26001 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
26004 o Performance improvements (socket management):
26005 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
26006 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26007 our allocated connection limit.
26008 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26009 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26010 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26011 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26012 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26014 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26015 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
26017 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
26018 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
26019 is interested in a given message.
26020 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26021 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26022 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26023 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26024 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26026 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26027 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26028 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26030 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26031 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26032 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
26033 they are the same).
26034 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26035 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26036 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26037 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26040 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
26041 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26042 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26043 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26044 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26045 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26046 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26048 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26049 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26050 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26051 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26052 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26053 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26054 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26055 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
26056 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
26057 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26058 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26059 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26060 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26063 o Changed config option behavior (features):
26064 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26065 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26066 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26067 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26068 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26069 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26070 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26071 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26072 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26073 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26074 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26075 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26076 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26077 and are reaching it.
26078 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26079 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26080 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26081 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
26083 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
26084 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26085 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26086 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26087 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26088 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26089 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26090 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26091 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
26093 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26094 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
26095 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
26096 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26097 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26098 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26099 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26100 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26102 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26103 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26105 o New config options:
26106 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
26107 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
26108 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26109 running a test network on a single host.
26110 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26111 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26112 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26113 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26114 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26115 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26116 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26117 the approved-routers file.
26118 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
26119 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
26120 v2 directory information.
26122 o Minor features (other):
26123 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26124 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26125 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26126 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26127 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26128 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
26130 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26131 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26132 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
26133 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
26134 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
26135 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26136 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26138 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26139 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26140 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26142 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26143 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26144 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26145 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26146 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26148 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26149 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26150 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26151 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26152 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26153 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26154 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26156 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26157 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26158 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
26159 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26160 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26161 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26162 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26163 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26164 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26167 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26168 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26169 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26171 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26172 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26173 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26174 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26175 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26176 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26178 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26179 bandwidthburst values.
26180 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26181 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26182 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26183 to mark all our entry points down.
26184 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26185 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26186 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
26187 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26188 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26190 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26191 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26192 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26193 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26194 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26195 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26196 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
26197 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
26198 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
26200 o Controller features:
26201 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26202 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26203 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26204 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26205 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26206 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26208 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26209 multiple controller passwords.
26210 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26211 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26212 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26213 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26215 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26216 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26217 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26218 cookie authentication file, and config option
26219 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26220 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26221 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26222 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
26224 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26225 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
26226 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26227 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26228 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
26229 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26230 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26232 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26233 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26235 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26236 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26237 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26238 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26239 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26240 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
26241 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26242 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26243 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26244 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26245 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26246 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26247 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26249 o Controller bugfixes:
26250 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26251 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26252 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
26253 processes can't run us out of memory.
26254 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26255 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26256 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26258 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26259 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26260 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26261 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
26262 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26263 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26264 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26265 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26266 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26267 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26268 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26269 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26270 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26271 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26272 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26274 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26275 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26277 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26278 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26279 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26280 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26281 WARN-severity events.
26283 o Portability / building / compiling:
26284 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26285 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26286 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26287 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26288 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26289 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26290 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26291 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26292 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26293 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26294 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26295 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26296 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26298 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26299 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26300 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26301 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26302 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26303 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26304 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26305 partial results on small file reads.
26306 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26307 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26308 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26309 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26310 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26311 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26313 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26314 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26315 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26316 logging for the unit tests.
26317 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26318 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26320 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26321 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26323 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26324 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26325 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26326 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26329 o Logging improvements:
26330 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26331 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26332 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26333 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26334 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26335 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26336 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26338 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26339 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26340 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26341 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26342 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26343 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26344 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26345 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26346 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26347 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26348 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26349 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26350 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26351 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26352 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26353 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26354 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26355 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26356 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26358 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26359 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26360 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26361 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26363 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26364 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26365 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26366 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26367 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26369 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26370 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26371 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26372 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26373 makes the log messages nicer.
26374 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26375 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26377 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26378 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26379 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26381 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26382 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26383 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26384 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26385 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26386 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26387 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26388 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26389 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26390 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26392 o Newly deprecated features:
26393 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26394 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26395 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26396 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26398 o Removed features:
26399 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26400 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26401 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26402 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26403 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26405 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26406 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26407 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26408 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26409 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26410 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26411 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26412 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26414 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26415 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26416 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26417 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26418 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26419 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26421 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26422 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26423 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26424 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26425 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26426 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26427 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26428 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26429 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26430 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26431 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26432 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26433 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26434 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26438 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26439 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26440 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26441 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26444 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26445 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26446 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26447 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26448 on network address.
26451 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26452 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26453 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26454 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26455 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26456 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26457 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26458 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26459 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26460 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26461 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26462 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26465 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26466 rebuild our server descriptor.
26467 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26468 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26469 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26470 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26471 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26472 nonstandard integer types.
26473 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26474 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26475 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26476 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26477 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26479 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26480 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26481 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26482 when they receive them.
26483 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26484 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26485 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26486 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26487 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26488 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26489 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26490 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26491 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26492 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26496 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26497 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26498 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26499 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26500 lists for a few hours each day.
26502 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26503 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26504 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26505 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26506 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26507 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26508 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26509 rend_process_relay_cell().
26511 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26512 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26513 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26514 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26515 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26516 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26517 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26518 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26520 o Major bugfixes (other):
26521 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26522 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26523 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26524 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26525 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26526 circuit cannibalization).
26527 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26528 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26529 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26530 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26531 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26532 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26535 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26536 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26538 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26539 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26540 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26541 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26542 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26543 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26544 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26545 were reporting the dir port.)
26546 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26547 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26548 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26549 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26550 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26552 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26553 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26554 the onion key from getting rotated.
26555 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26556 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26557 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26558 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26559 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26560 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26561 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26564 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26565 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26566 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26567 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26568 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26571 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26572 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26575 o Major bugfixes (security):
26576 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26577 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26578 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26580 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26581 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26582 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26584 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26585 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26586 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26587 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26588 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26589 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26591 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26592 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26593 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26594 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26595 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26597 o Minor features (controller):
26598 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26599 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26600 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26601 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26603 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26604 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26605 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26606 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26607 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26608 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26609 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26610 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26612 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26613 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26614 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26615 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26616 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26617 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26618 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26619 if we ran off the end of the list.
26620 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26621 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26622 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26623 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26624 every time we change any piece of our config.
26625 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26626 encourage people using them to stop.
26627 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26629 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26630 servers to choose a circuit.
26631 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26632 unparseable piece of it.
26635 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26636 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26637 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26638 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26639 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26640 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26642 o Major security fixes:
26643 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26644 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26647 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26648 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26649 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26650 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26652 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26653 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26655 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26656 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26657 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26658 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26659 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26660 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26661 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26663 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26664 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26665 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26667 o Major bugfixes (security):
26668 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26670 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26671 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26672 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26673 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26674 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26675 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26676 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26677 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26678 guard list unless we need to.
26680 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26681 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26682 don't get overused as guards.
26684 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26685 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26686 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26687 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26688 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26690 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26691 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26692 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26695 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26696 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26697 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26698 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26699 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26700 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26701 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26702 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26705 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26706 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26707 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26708 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26710 o Directory authority changes:
26711 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26712 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26713 or use hidden services.
26715 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26716 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26717 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26718 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26719 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26720 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26721 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26722 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26723 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26726 o Major bugfixes (security):
26727 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26728 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26729 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26731 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26732 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26733 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26734 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26735 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26736 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26737 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26738 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26739 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26740 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26743 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26744 purpose=controller.
26745 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26746 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26748 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26749 having a hard time downloading.
26750 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26751 partial results on small file reads.
26752 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26753 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26754 the gaps in the store get very large.
26757 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26758 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26760 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26761 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26764 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26765 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26766 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26767 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26768 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26769 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26771 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26772 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26773 free speech on the Internet.
26775 o Major features, client performance:
26776 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26777 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26778 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26779 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26780 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26781 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26782 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26783 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26784 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26785 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26786 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26787 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26788 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26789 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26790 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26792 o Major features, client functionality:
26793 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26794 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26795 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26796 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26797 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26798 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26799 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26800 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26801 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26802 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
26803 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26804 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26805 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26807 o Major features, servers:
26808 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26809 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26810 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26811 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26812 authenticated, so use with care.
26813 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26814 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26815 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26817 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26818 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26819 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26820 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26821 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26822 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26824 o Improvements on DNS support:
26825 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26826 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26827 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26828 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26829 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26830 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26831 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26832 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26833 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26834 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26835 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26836 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26837 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26838 lets you turn it off.
26839 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26840 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26841 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26842 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26843 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26844 useful to the network.
26845 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26846 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26847 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26848 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26849 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26850 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26852 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26853 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26854 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26855 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26856 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26857 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26858 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26859 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26860 if their identity keys are as expected.
26861 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26862 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26863 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26864 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26865 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26866 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26867 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26868 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26869 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26870 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26871 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26872 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26873 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26874 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26876 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26877 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26878 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26879 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26880 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26881 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26883 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26884 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26885 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26886 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26887 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26888 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26889 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26890 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26892 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26893 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26895 o Major features, NT services:
26896 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26897 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26898 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26899 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26900 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26901 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26902 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26904 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26905 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26906 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26908 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26909 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26910 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26912 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26913 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26915 o Directory authority improvements:
26916 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26918 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26919 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26920 too much load to the exit nodes.
26921 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26922 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26923 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26924 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26925 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26926 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26927 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26928 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26929 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26930 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26931 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26932 broken. Not used yet.
26933 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
26934 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
26935 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
26936 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
26937 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26938 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26939 non-versioning dirservers.
26940 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26941 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26942 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26944 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26945 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26946 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26947 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26949 o Directory mirrors and clients:
26950 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26951 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26952 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26953 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26954 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26955 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
26956 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
26957 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
26958 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26959 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26960 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26961 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26962 routers for even longer.
26963 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26964 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26965 caching HTTP proxies.
26966 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26967 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
26968 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26969 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
26971 o Major fixes, crashes:
26972 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
26973 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
26974 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
26975 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
26977 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
26978 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
26979 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
26980 stream is detached.
26981 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
26982 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
26983 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
26984 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
26985 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
26986 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
26987 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
26988 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
26989 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
26990 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
26992 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
26993 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
26994 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
26995 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
26996 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
26997 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
26998 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
26999 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27000 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27001 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27002 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27003 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27004 could return an unnamed server instead.
27005 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27006 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27007 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27008 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27009 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27010 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27011 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27013 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27014 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27016 o Major fixes, other:
27017 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27018 uptime in the descriptor.
27019 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27020 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27021 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27022 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27023 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27024 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27025 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27026 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27027 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27028 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27029 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27030 our DirPort now, etc.
27031 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27032 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27033 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27035 o New config options or behaviors:
27036 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27037 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27038 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27039 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27040 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27041 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27042 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27043 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27044 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27045 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27046 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27047 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27049 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27050 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27051 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
27052 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27053 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27055 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27056 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27057 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27058 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27059 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27060 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27061 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
27062 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
27063 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27064 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27065 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27066 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27067 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
27068 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27069 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27070 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27071 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27072 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27073 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27074 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27075 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27076 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27077 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27078 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27079 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27080 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27081 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27082 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27083 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27084 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27086 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27087 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27088 your ORPort is set.
27091 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27092 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
27094 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27095 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27096 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27097 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27099 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
27100 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27101 whether the config options are bad or good.
27102 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27103 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27104 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27105 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27106 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27107 result more than once.
27108 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27109 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27110 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27111 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27112 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27113 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27114 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27115 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27116 before we check for libevent.
27117 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
27118 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27119 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27120 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27121 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27122 recommendation system saner.)
27123 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
27124 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27125 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27126 now universal binaries.
27127 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27128 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27130 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
27132 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27133 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27134 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27135 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27136 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
27137 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
27139 o Minor features, controller:
27140 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27141 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27142 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27144 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27145 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27146 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27147 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27148 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27149 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27150 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27152 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27153 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27154 connected or resolved cell.
27155 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27156 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27157 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27158 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27159 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
27160 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27161 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27163 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27164 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27165 entry guard status as it changes.
27166 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27167 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27168 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27169 watching for STREAM events.
27170 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27171 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27172 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27173 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27175 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27176 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27177 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27178 working much like those for circuit events.
27179 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27180 about the current status of a router.
27181 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27182 a router's status has changed.
27183 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27184 can tell which events and features are supported.
27185 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27186 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27187 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27188 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27189 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27190 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27191 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27192 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27193 for more information.
27194 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27195 best guess to the user.
27196 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27197 descriptor has changed.
27198 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27199 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27200 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27202 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
27203 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27204 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27205 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27206 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
27207 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27208 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27209 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
27210 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27211 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27212 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
27214 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27215 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27217 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27218 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27219 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27221 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27222 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27223 the controller from learning about current events.
27224 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27225 reported by Mike Perry.
27226 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27227 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27228 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27229 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27230 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27231 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27232 long nicknames where appropriate.
27233 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27234 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27236 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27237 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27238 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
27239 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
27240 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27242 o Minor features, code performance:
27243 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27244 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27245 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27247 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27248 some profiles, but not others.)
27249 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27250 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27251 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27252 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27253 operations, for profiling.
27254 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27255 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27256 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27257 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27258 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27259 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27260 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27261 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27263 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
27264 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27265 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27266 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27267 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27268 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27269 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27270 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27271 family lists conveniently.
27273 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
27274 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27275 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27276 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27277 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
27278 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27279 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27280 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27281 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27282 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27283 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27284 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27285 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27286 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27287 of it), is not therefore "up".
27289 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27290 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27291 what version a router is running.
27292 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27293 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27294 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27295 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27297 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27298 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27299 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27300 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27301 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27304 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27305 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27306 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27308 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27309 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27311 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27312 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27313 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27314 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27315 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27316 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27317 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27318 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27319 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27320 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27322 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27323 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27324 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27325 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27326 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27327 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27328 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27329 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27330 get one we don't recognize.
27333 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27334 o Security bugfixes:
27335 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27336 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27337 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27338 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27342 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27343 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27344 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27347 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27349 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27350 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27351 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27352 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27353 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27354 its circuits on demand.
27355 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27356 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27357 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27358 connections more stable on average.
27359 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27360 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27361 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27363 o Security bugfixes:
27364 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27365 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27368 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27370 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27371 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27372 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27373 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27374 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27375 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27376 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27377 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27380 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27382 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27383 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27384 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27385 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27386 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27387 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27388 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27389 it can't resolve its hostname.
27390 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27391 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27392 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27395 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27396 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27397 "extendcircuit" request.
27398 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27399 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27400 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27401 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27403 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27404 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27405 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27407 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27408 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27409 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27410 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27411 we don't recognize.
27414 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27416 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27417 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27418 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27419 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27420 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27421 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27422 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27423 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27424 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27427 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27428 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27429 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27430 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27431 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27433 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27434 own server descriptor yet.
27437 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27439 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27440 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27441 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27442 make sure to test via one of these.
27443 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27444 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27445 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27446 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27447 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27449 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27450 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27451 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27454 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27455 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27456 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27457 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27458 directory authority.
27459 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27460 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27461 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27462 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27465 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27466 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27467 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27469 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27470 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27471 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27472 current guards when picking a new guard.
27473 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27474 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27475 when we had more than one pending.
27476 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27477 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27478 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27479 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27480 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27481 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27482 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27483 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27484 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27485 debug the reachability problems better.
27487 o Log / documentation fixes:
27488 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27489 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27490 about protocol violations by others.
27491 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27492 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27493 about what happened to our old torrc.
27496 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27497 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27498 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27499 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27500 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27501 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27503 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27504 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27505 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27506 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27507 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27508 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27509 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27510 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27511 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27512 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27513 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27514 on malicious huge inputs.
27516 o Security fixes, major:
27517 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27518 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27519 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27520 misreading their logs.
27521 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27522 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27523 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27524 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27525 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27526 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27527 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27528 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27529 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27530 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27531 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27532 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27533 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27534 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27536 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27537 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27538 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27539 firewall options forbid.
27540 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27541 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27542 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27543 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27544 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27545 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27547 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27548 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27549 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27550 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27551 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27552 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27553 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27554 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27555 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27556 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27557 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27558 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27559 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27561 o Security fixes, minor:
27562 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27563 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27565 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27566 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27567 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27568 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27569 if we've not heard of a server.
27570 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27571 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27572 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27573 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27574 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27575 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27576 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27577 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27578 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27579 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27580 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27581 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27582 aids some statistical attacks.
27583 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27584 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27585 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27586 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27587 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27588 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27589 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27590 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27593 o Packaging improvements:
27594 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27595 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27596 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27597 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27598 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27599 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27601 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27602 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27603 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27604 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27605 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27606 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27608 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27609 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27610 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27612 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27613 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27614 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27615 They are useless now.
27616 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27617 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27618 is reachable by you.
27619 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27622 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27623 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27624 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27625 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27626 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27627 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27628 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27629 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27630 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27631 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27632 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27633 and isolating attacks better.
27634 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27635 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27636 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27637 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27638 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27639 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27640 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27641 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27642 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27643 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27644 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27646 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27647 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27648 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27649 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27650 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27651 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27652 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27653 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27654 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27655 for clients and for servers.
27656 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27657 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27658 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27659 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27660 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27661 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27662 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27663 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27664 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27665 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27666 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27668 o Other directory improvements:
27669 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27670 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27671 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27672 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27673 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27674 to hang up on them.
27675 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27676 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27677 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27678 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27679 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27680 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27682 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27683 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27684 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27685 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27686 connections more reliable.
27687 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27688 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27689 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27690 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27691 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27692 we fail to connect).
27693 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27695 o Controller protocol improvements:
27696 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27697 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27698 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27699 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27700 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27701 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27702 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27703 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27704 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27705 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27706 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27707 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27708 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27709 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27710 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27711 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27712 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27713 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27714 or "signal reload".
27715 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27716 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27717 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27718 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27719 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27720 a router in its role as directory authority.
27721 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27722 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27723 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27724 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27725 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27726 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27727 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27728 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27729 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27730 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27731 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27732 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27733 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27734 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27735 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27736 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27737 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27738 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27740 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27741 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27742 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27743 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27744 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27745 just tell them to go read their logs.
27747 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27748 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27749 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27750 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27751 try to be a bit more fair.
27752 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27753 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27754 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27755 and we're using a default DirPort.
27756 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27757 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27758 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27759 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27760 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27761 services faster on the service end.
27762 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27764 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27765 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27766 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27767 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27768 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27769 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27770 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27771 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27772 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27773 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27774 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27775 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27776 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27777 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27778 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27779 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27780 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27781 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27782 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27783 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27784 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27785 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27786 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27787 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27788 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27790 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27791 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27792 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27793 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27794 so we can be backward-compatible.
27795 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27796 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27797 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27798 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27799 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27800 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27801 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27802 initial descriptor forever.
27803 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27804 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27805 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27806 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27807 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27808 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27809 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27810 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27811 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27812 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27813 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27814 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27815 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27816 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27817 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27818 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27819 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27820 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27821 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27822 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27823 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27824 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27825 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27826 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27827 ports that have changed.
27828 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27829 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27830 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27831 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27832 connections once a week.
27833 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27834 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27835 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27836 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27837 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27838 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27839 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27840 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27841 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27842 able to discover them.
27843 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27844 want to make it an NT service.
27845 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27846 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27847 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27848 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27849 memory leaks better.
27850 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27851 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27852 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27853 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27854 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27855 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27856 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27857 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27858 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27859 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27860 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27861 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27862 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27863 and its existence is confusing some users.
27865 o Config option fixes:
27866 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27867 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27868 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27869 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27870 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27871 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27872 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27873 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27874 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27876 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27877 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27878 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27879 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27880 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27881 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27882 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27883 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27884 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27885 silently resetting it to its default.
27886 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27887 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27888 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27889 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27890 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27891 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27892 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27893 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27894 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27895 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27896 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27897 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27898 Address config option.
27899 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27900 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27902 o Config option features:
27903 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27904 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27905 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27906 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27907 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27909 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27910 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27911 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27912 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27913 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27914 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27915 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27916 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27917 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27918 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27919 in at least some cases.)
27920 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27921 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27922 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27923 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27924 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27925 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27926 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27927 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27928 even if we know they're jerks.
27929 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27930 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27931 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27932 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27933 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27934 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27935 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27936 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27937 because older Tors do not understand it.
27938 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27939 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
27940 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27941 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27942 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27943 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27944 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27945 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27946 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27947 unattached before we fail it?
27948 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27949 at least this many seconds ago.
27950 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27951 at least this many seconds ago.
27952 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27953 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27955 o Improved and clearer log messages:
27956 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27957 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27958 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27960 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27961 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27962 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27963 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27964 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27965 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
27966 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27967 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27968 temporarily unreachable.
27969 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27970 Windows-style errno back.
27971 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
27972 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
27974 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
27975 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
27976 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
27977 exactly for this case.
27978 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
27979 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
27980 don't warn twice about the same name.
27981 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
27983 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
27984 it was self-testing that told us so.
27985 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
27986 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
27987 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
27988 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
27989 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
27990 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
27991 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
27992 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
27993 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
27994 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
27995 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
27996 established a circuit.
27997 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
27998 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
27999 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28000 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28001 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28002 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28003 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28004 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28005 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28006 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28007 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28008 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
28009 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
28010 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28011 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28012 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28013 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28014 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28015 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28016 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28017 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28018 testing for reachability.
28019 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28020 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28022 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
28025 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28026 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28027 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28028 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28030 o Other important bugfixes:
28031 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28032 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28033 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28034 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28036 o Backported features:
28037 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28038 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28039 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28040 without getting overloaded.
28041 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28042 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28043 503's whenever they feel busy.
28044 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28045 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28046 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28047 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28048 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28051 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28052 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28053 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28054 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28055 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28056 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28057 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28058 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28060 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28061 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28062 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28063 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28064 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28065 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28066 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28067 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28068 rendezvous circuits.
28069 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28071 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28072 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28073 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28074 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28075 advertising it because of hibernation.
28076 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28077 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
28078 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28079 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28080 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28081 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28082 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28083 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28084 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28085 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28086 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28087 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28088 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28089 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28090 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28093 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28094 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28095 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28096 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28097 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28098 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28099 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28100 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28101 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28102 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28103 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28104 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28105 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28106 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28107 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28110 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28111 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28112 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28114 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28115 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28118 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28119 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28120 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28121 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28122 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28123 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28124 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28126 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28127 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28131 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28132 o New directory servers:
28133 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28135 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28136 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28137 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28138 pthreads libraries.
28139 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28140 claims its dirport is 0.
28141 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28142 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28146 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28147 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28148 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28149 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28150 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28151 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28152 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28153 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28156 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28158 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
28159 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
28160 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
28161 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
28162 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28163 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
28164 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
28165 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28166 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
28168 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28169 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28171 o Assert / crash bugs:
28172 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28173 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28174 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28176 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28177 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28178 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28179 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
28180 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
28183 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
28184 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
28185 duplicate ram over time.
28186 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
28187 reentry and threadsafeness.
28188 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28189 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
28190 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
28192 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28193 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28194 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28195 point at your Tor server.
28196 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
28198 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
28199 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28202 o Protocol correctness:
28203 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28204 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28205 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28206 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
28207 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28208 to abandon partially built circuits.
28209 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28210 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28211 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28212 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28213 descriptors we just dropped.
28214 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28215 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
28216 and to take errno into account where possible.
28217 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28218 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28219 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28220 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28222 o Robustness improvements:
28223 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28224 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
28225 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28227 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28228 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28229 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28230 that will want high uptime circuits.
28231 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28232 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28233 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28234 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28235 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
28236 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28237 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28238 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28239 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28240 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
28241 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
28242 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
28243 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
28244 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28245 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28246 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28247 for google.com" problem.
28248 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28249 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28250 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28251 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28252 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28255 o Reachability testing.
28256 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
28257 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
28258 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
28259 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
28260 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28261 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28262 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28263 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
28264 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
28265 already connected to them.
28266 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
28270 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28271 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28272 nickname+key are allowed.
28273 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28274 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28275 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28276 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28277 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28278 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28279 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28280 have quite wrong clocks).
28281 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28282 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28283 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28284 their descriptors are being rejected.
28286 o Efficiency improvements:
28287 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28288 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28289 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28290 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28291 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28292 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28293 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28294 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28295 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28296 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28298 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28299 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28300 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28301 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28302 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28303 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28304 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28305 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28306 of CPU time plus memory.
28307 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28308 directory every time you regenerate it.
28309 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28310 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28311 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28312 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28313 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28314 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28315 lowercase when you first see them.
28318 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28319 hidden services better.
28320 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28321 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28322 when we try to launch one.
28323 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28324 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28325 attempts to build a circuit.
28326 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28327 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28328 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28329 normal web requests.
28332 - More Tor controller support. See
28333 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28334 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28335 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28336 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28337 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28338 to make it easier to write controllers.
28339 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28340 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28341 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28342 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28343 new log event types.
28345 o New config options/defaults:
28346 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28347 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28348 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28349 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28350 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28352 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28354 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28355 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28356 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28357 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28358 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28360 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28361 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28362 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28363 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28364 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28365 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28366 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28367 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28368 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28369 required exit node for certain sites.
28370 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28371 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28372 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28373 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28374 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28375 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28376 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28377 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28378 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28380 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28381 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28382 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28383 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28384 private-IP addresses.
28385 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28386 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28387 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28388 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28389 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28390 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28391 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28392 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28394 o Logging improvements:
28395 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28396 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28397 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28398 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28400 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28401 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28402 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28403 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28404 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28405 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28406 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28407 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28408 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28410 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28412 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28413 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28414 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28415 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28416 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28417 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28419 o New contrib scripts:
28420 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28421 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28423 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28424 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28425 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28426 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28427 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28428 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28430 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28431 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28432 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28433 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28437 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28438 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28439 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28440 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28441 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28442 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28443 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28445 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28446 something more reasonable when first installing.
28447 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28448 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28449 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28450 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28452 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28453 artificially capped at 500kB.
28454 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28456 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28457 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28458 they could use instead.
28459 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28460 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28461 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28462 the user asks you to.
28465 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28466 rather than just rejecting it.
28467 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28468 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28469 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28470 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28471 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28472 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28473 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28474 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28475 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28476 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28477 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28478 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28480 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28481 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28482 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28483 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28485 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28486 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28488 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28489 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28490 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28491 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28493 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28494 whether the server is hibernating.
28497 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28498 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28499 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28500 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28501 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28505 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28506 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28507 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28508 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28509 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28512 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28513 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28514 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28515 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28516 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28517 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28518 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28521 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28522 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28523 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28524 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28525 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28526 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28527 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28528 creating actual system users.
28529 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28530 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28534 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28535 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28536 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28537 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28538 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28539 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28540 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28541 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28542 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28543 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28544 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28545 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28546 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28547 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28548 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28550 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28551 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28552 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28553 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28554 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28555 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28556 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28557 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28558 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28559 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28560 existing torrc files.
28561 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28564 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28565 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28566 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28567 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28568 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28569 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28570 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28571 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28572 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28573 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28574 file descriptors available.
28575 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28576 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28577 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28580 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28581 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28582 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28583 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28585 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28586 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28587 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28588 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28589 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28591 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28592 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28593 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28594 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28595 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28596 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28597 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28598 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28599 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28600 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28601 800kB/s of capacity.
28602 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28605 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28606 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28607 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28608 need as much processor time.
28609 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28610 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28611 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28612 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28613 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28614 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28615 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28616 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28617 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28618 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28619 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28620 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28622 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28623 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28624 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28625 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28626 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28627 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28628 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28631 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28632 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28633 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28635 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28636 style address, then we'd crash.
28637 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28638 a dirserver is broken.
28639 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28641 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28642 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28643 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28645 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28646 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28647 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28648 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28649 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28650 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28652 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28653 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28654 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28656 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28658 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28659 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28660 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28661 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28662 values at once couldn't work.
28663 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28664 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28665 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28666 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28667 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28668 they can handle any number of routers.
28669 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28670 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28671 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28672 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28673 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28674 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28675 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28676 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28677 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28680 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28681 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28682 - Make hibernation actually work.
28683 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28684 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28685 don't use the stream status code.
28688 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28689 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28690 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28691 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28692 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28693 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28694 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28695 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28696 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28697 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28698 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28699 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28702 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28703 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28704 win32 socket errors better.
28705 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28706 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28707 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28708 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28710 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28712 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28713 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28714 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28715 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28716 right after sending the begin cell.
28717 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28718 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28719 exit nodes too. Oops.
28720 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28721 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28722 the user would get no response.
28723 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28724 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28725 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28727 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28728 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28729 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28730 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28731 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28733 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28734 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28735 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28736 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28737 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28738 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28739 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28740 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28741 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28742 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28743 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28745 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28746 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28747 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28748 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28749 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28750 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28751 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28752 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28753 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28754 so we don't see those messages days later.
28755 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28756 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28758 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28759 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28760 they ran out of file descriptors.
28761 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28762 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28763 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28764 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28766 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28767 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28768 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28769 the ones we find in directories.)
28770 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28771 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28772 if you don't want it open.
28773 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28774 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28775 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28776 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28777 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28778 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28780 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28781 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28783 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28785 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28786 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28788 o Features (circuits and streams):
28789 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28790 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28791 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28792 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28793 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28794 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28795 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28796 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28797 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28798 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28799 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28800 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28801 from Geoff Goodell.
28802 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28804 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28805 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28806 to fill the last cell completely.
28807 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28808 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28810 o Features (bandwidth):
28811 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28812 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28813 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28814 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28815 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28816 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28817 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28818 your billing cycle starts on.
28819 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28820 hibernation properties by
28821 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28822 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28823 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28824 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28825 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28827 o Features (directories):
28828 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28829 nickname to its identity key.
28830 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28831 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28832 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28833 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28834 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28836 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28837 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28839 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28840 will be able to get a directory.
28841 - Http proxy support
28842 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28843 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28844 be routed through this host.
28845 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28846 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28847 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28848 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28849 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28850 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28852 o Features (packages and install):
28853 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28854 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28855 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28856 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28857 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28858 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28859 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28860 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28861 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28862 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28865 o Features (ui controller):
28866 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28867 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28868 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28869 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28870 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28871 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28872 with the control port.
28873 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28874 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28875 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28876 configuration to torrc.
28877 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28878 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28879 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28881 o Features (config and command-line):
28882 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28883 not on the command line.
28884 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28886 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28887 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28888 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28889 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28890 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28891 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28892 - New log format in config:
28893 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28894 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28895 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28896 from their dirserver.
28897 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28899 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28900 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28901 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28902 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28903 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28904 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28905 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28906 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28907 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28908 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28909 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28910 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28911 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28912 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28913 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28914 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28915 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28916 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28917 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28918 than once per minute.
28920 o Features (other):
28921 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28922 get back to normal.)
28923 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28924 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28925 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28926 log more informatively.
28927 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28928 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28929 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28930 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28931 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28932 them act more like real nodes.
28933 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28934 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28935 1024) file descriptors.
28936 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28939 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28941 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28942 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28943 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28944 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28945 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28946 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28947 intermittent connections.
28948 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28949 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28951 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28952 in reporting stats locally.
28953 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28954 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28955 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28958 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28960 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28961 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28962 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28963 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28964 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28965 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28966 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28967 list to decide who's running.
28968 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28969 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28970 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28971 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
28972 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
28973 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
28974 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
28975 for pointing out this bug.)
28976 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
28978 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
28979 don't put it into the client dns cache.
28980 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
28981 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
28982 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
28984 o Protocol changes:
28985 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
28986 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
28987 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
28988 hadn't heard of before.
28991 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
28992 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
28993 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
28994 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
28995 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
28996 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
28997 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
28998 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
28999 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29000 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29001 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29002 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29003 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29004 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29005 - Directory caching.
29006 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29007 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29008 directory they've pulled down.
29009 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29010 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29011 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29012 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29013 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29014 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29015 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29017 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29018 This isn't used yet.
29019 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29020 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29021 clients don't use this yet.)
29022 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29023 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29024 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
29025 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29026 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29027 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29028 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29029 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29030 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29031 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29032 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29033 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29034 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29035 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29036 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29037 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29038 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29039 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29040 - File and name management:
29041 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29042 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29044 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29045 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29046 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29047 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29048 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29049 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29050 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29052 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29053 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29054 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29056 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29057 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29058 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29059 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29060 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29061 - New docs in the tarball:
29063 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29064 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29065 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29066 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29067 know you might want to get it verified.
29068 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29069 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29070 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29071 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29072 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29073 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29074 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29075 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29076 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29078 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29080 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29081 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29083 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29084 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29085 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29088 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29089 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29090 ask them to resolve the host "".
29093 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29094 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29095 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29098 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29099 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29100 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29103 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29104 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29105 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29106 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29108 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29109 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29110 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29112 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29113 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29114 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29115 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29116 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29117 o Fixes for security bugs:
29118 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29119 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29120 a trusted dirserver.
29122 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29123 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29124 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29125 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29126 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29127 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29128 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29129 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29130 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29131 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29133 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29134 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29135 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29136 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29137 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29138 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29140 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29143 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29144 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29145 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29146 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29147 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29148 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29149 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29150 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29151 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29152 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29153 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29154 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29155 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29156 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
29159 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29160 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29161 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29162 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29165 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29166 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29167 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29168 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29169 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29170 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29171 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29175 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29177 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29178 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29179 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29180 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29181 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29182 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29183 if you decrypted them correctly.
29184 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29185 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
29186 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29187 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29188 in-memory directories too.
29189 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29190 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29191 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29192 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29193 just close the circ.
29194 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29195 - Better debugging for tls errors
29196 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29197 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29199 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
29200 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29201 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29202 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29203 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29204 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29205 it tells you about the first error.
29206 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29207 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29208 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
29209 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29210 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29211 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29212 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29213 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29214 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
29215 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29217 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
29218 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
29221 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29222 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29224 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29225 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29226 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29227 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29228 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29229 expect it to have a nickname.
29230 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29231 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29232 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29233 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29234 the dns farm to do it.
29235 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29236 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29238 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29239 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29240 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29241 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29242 but that aren't warnings
29245 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29246 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29250 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29251 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29252 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29253 - include missing header fcntl.h
29254 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29255 - deal with hardware word alignment
29256 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29257 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29258 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29259 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29260 by kill -USR1 currently.
29261 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29262 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29263 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29266 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29267 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29268 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29271 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29273 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29274 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29275 - And fix a few endian issues.
29278 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29280 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29281 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29282 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29283 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29284 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29285 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29286 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29287 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29289 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29290 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29291 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29293 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29295 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29296 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29297 side isn't reading right then.
29298 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29299 RecommendedVersions
29300 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29301 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29302 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29305 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29307 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29308 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29311 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29315 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29317 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29318 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29319 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29320 connection is finished.
29321 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29322 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29323 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29324 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29325 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29326 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29327 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29328 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29329 rather than warn and continue.
29330 - Make --version work
29331 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29334 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29336 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29337 knows it's working.
29338 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29339 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29341 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29342 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29343 so you can collect coredumps there.
29345 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29346 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29347 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29348 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29349 dns cache actually gets populated.
29350 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29351 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29352 end cell down it first.
29353 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29354 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29357 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29359 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29360 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29362 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29363 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29364 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29365 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29366 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29367 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29369 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29371 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29372 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29373 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29374 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29375 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29376 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29378 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29379 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29382 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29384 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29385 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29386 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29387 tor. It even has a man page.
29388 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29389 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29390 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29391 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29393 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29395 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29398 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29400 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29401 it, apt-getters. :)
29402 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29403 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29404 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29405 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29406 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29407 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29408 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29409 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29410 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29411 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29412 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29414 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29415 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29418 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29420 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29421 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29424 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29426 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29427 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29428 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29429 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29430 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29431 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29432 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29433 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29434 logfile so you know it's working.
29435 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29436 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29439 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29441 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29442 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29443 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29446 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29448 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29449 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29450 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29453 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29454 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29455 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29457 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29458 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29460 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29461 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29462 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29464 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29465 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29469 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29471 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29472 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29473 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29476 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29477 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29478 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29479 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29480 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29481 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29482 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29483 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29484 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29485 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29487 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29490 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29491 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29492 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29493 really screw things up.
29494 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29496 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29497 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29499 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29500 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29501 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29502 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29503 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29504 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29507 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29510 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29511 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29512 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29514 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29517 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29518 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29519 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29520 - to get ownership/permissions right
29521 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29522 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29523 pull down a directory again
29524 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29525 causing server crashes
29526 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29527 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29528 - exit if bind() fails
29529 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29530 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29531 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29532 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29533 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29536 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29538 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29539 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29541 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29542 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29543 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29544 exists, rather than failing
29545 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29546 which AP connections are standing by
29547 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29548 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29549 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29551 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29552 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29555 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29556 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29558 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29559 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29560 - Reloads config on HUP
29561 - Usage info on -h or --help
29562 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29564 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29565 o General stability:
29566 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29567 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29568 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29569 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29570 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29571 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29572 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29575 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29576 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29578 o Autoconf improvements:
29579 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29580 - Make install now works
29581 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29582 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29583 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29585 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29586 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29587 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29588 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup